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 LOWRY: Oldenburg created the large-scale soft sculptures Floor Burger, Floor Cone, and Floor Cake, for the 1962 installation of The Store at the Green Gallery in midtown Manhattan. CLAES ...

Narrator: The artist Pablo Picasso made Les Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907, using oil paint on canvas. This large painting measures 8 feet high and 7 feet, 8 inches wide. In metric units, it is about ...

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Portraiture underwent a dramatic transformation in the modern era, perhaps most definitively in the hands of the Expressionists. Rather than flattering the sitter or focusing on external appearances, ...

The artists featured on this page include many of the most important figures associated with the various facets of the Expressionist movement, from pioneers such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Vasily ...

Ann Temkin became Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture in 2008, after joining The Museum of Modern Art in 2003 as Curator. During her tenure, Ms. Temkin has focused on reimagining the Museum’s ...

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 ...

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.

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Narrator: This work belongs to a series of paintings in which Magritte paired words and images using the format of a children’s reading primer. Curator, Anne Umland: Misnaming objects was one of ...

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