Before watching this video series on Virtual Cinema, read a curator's introduction to how it reflects unfolding realities of the pandemic in real time.

On Valentine’s Day 1970, David Mancuso began hosting regular, invitation-only dance parties at his home at 647 Broadway in New York City. Initially started as a way to make rent, these weekly ...

The reunion of Pettibon’s own text—which is often missing or covered over on Black Flag materials—with his drawings reveals the enigmatic, haunting quality of his work, something far more compelling ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about polka dots lately. Whenever I walk down the hot, busy streets of New York or bathe in the subway’s air conditioning, I notice more people wearing the mesmerizing pattern ...

You mentioned the “Magritte man”: the iconic figure dressed in a suit and bowler hat who populates many of Magritte’s paintings. His bourgeois costume tends to be at odds with the circumstances in ...

Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills is a suite of seventy black-and-white photographs in which the artist posed in the guises of various generic female film characters, among them, ingénue, working ...

This wall installation, first exhibited in Walker's 1994 New York debut, inaugurated the artist's signature medium: black cut-out silhouettes of caricatures of antebellum figures arranged on a white ...

Recent advances in materials technology, manufacturing processes, and analytical supercomputing have facilitated the creation of jet-engine fan blades that are significantly stronger, tougher, and ...

Jerry Gorovoy: I’m Jerry Gorovoy. This hanging bronze figure is called the Arch of Hysteria. Louise had actually been in psychoanalysis from 1951 all the way up until the 1980s. At the beginning of ...

For Piet Mondrian, abstract painting was the means of achieving an equilibrium between the “concrete” (the tangible and specific aspects of reality perceived by the senses) and the “universal” (the ...

Kare’s icons for the Macintosh System 1, Apple’s first computer-operating system, changed the communication interface between humans and machines, making it easier and friendlier in tone. To design ...

On most days at MoMA, an icon of American painting greets visitors from across the room. Many recognize it without knowing who painted it. It depicts a woman in a pale pink dress; her face is turned ...