13 Major MoMA Shows from the 1930s—and What ARTnews Said at the Time
See how critics responded to 'Cubism and Abstract Art,' 'Machine Art,' and shows of Picasso and Matisse.
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Alfred H. Barr Jr.
David Rockefeller, Avid Collector and Honorary MoMA Chairman, Dies at 101
David Rockefeller, a philanthropist who donated significant works to the Museum of Modern Art and who, in his years as chairman and then honorary chairman of its board, dramatically enlarged…
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A Timeline of Attempts to Fix the Art World
From the founding of the Louvre in 1793 to the emergence of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles in 2012 to the start in 2013 of GCC, a collective focusing on contemporary Gulf culture, this…
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MoMA’s New Curatorial Guard
A new generation of curators at New York's Museum of Modern Art aims to present a more nuanced and inclusive view of modern-art history
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MoMA’s Problematic Provenances
Behind a lawsuit brought against the Museum of Modern Art by the heirs of George Grosz lies a troubling history of acquiring works seized by the Nazis and sold to support the German war effort
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Fighting for Their Rights
The modernist masterpieces of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov were nationalized by the Bolsheviks and are now on view in a celebrated and controversial exhibition at London's Royal Academy. The…
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Seeing Red at MoMA
How a furor over Communist content almost put an end to Lincoln Kirstein's first show at the new Museum of Modern Art in 1932.
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The 2005 Top Ten Collectors
“In the history of art, as in more materialistic matters, money talks vividly,” Alfred H. Barr Jr., the Museum of Modern Art’s founding director, wrote in 1929. “Let us not be ashamed…
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