Narrator: Here Magritte depicts himself in the act of painting. He looks at an egg but conjures a bird on the canvas. Curator, Anne Umland: Magritte, from 1932 on, had set out to apply a new method of ...

Various Artists, Werner Drewes, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, Ilya Bolotowsky, Harry Bowden, Byron Browne, Giorgio Cavallon, Arthur N. Christie, Herzl Emanuel, Balcomb Greene ...

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Architectural students Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff form the Brücke artists' group in Dresden, rejecting bourgeois social conventions and academic ...

Curator, Deborah Wye: This work is titled Femme Maison. And that meant to Louise Bourgeois either “woman house” or “house woman” in French. She was a native of France and always went back and forth ...

Glenn D. Lowry became the sixth director of The Museum of Modern Art in 1995. He has overseen the physical transformation of the Museum’s campus through two building campaigns that have more than ...

Artist, Marina Abramović: I had a very strict upbringing when I was a child in the former Yugoslavia. Director, Glenn Lowry: Abramović began performing in public at the age of 21. From then until the ...

Der Blaue Reiter was formed in 1911 in Munich as a loose association of painters led by Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. They shared an interest in abstracted forms and prismatic colors, which, they ...

Curator, Leah Dickerman: This silkscreen includes an image of John F. Kennedy, whom Rauschenberg greatly admired. After the assassination, Rauschenberg was uncertain whether he should use the image.

Immerse yourself in ideas and see your world in new ways through art. In MoMA’s free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera, you will hear directly from artists and designers, look closely at ...

Printmaking and drawing were integral to the Brücke artists’ practice. The graphic techniques offered a less expensive, more immediate way of developing their craft than painting. The boldness and ...

One morning in the summer of 1952, Matisse told his studio assistant and secretary Lydia Delectorskaya that “he wanted to see divers,” so they set out to a favorite pool in Cannes. Suffering under the ...