ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Alexander Calder’s early works at MoMA to Molly Greene’s psychedelic flowers at Kapp Kapp
AnalysisVisitor Figures 2020
Instagram overtakes Twitter as most popular platform for museums during Covid-19 pandemic
Our global Visitor Figures survey reveals huge growth in followings online as physical doors shut to the public in 2020
NewsResignations
Leon Black, under fire, will reportedly not seek re-election as MoMA’s board chairman
Tumult over his former business ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein brought pressure for him to step down
NewsProtests
Coalition of activist groups announces ‘strike’ action against MoMA
Accusing the museum of elitism, alliance says its ultimate goal is “disassembling” the institution
NewsMuseum trustees
MoMA’s board leader Leon Black quits equity firm, citing 'relentless scrutiny' over links to Epstein
Decision raises questions about his future role at the museum after artists call for him to go
PreviewExhibitions
Sophie Taeuber-Arp survey reveals the dizzying range of work by the Swiss artist
The major travelling exhibition opens at the Kunstmuseum Basel before travelling to London's Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art in New York
PreviewExhibitions
Cézanne’s drawings, watercolours and sketchbooks to get star treatment at MoMA
A major exhibition focuses on works on paper by one of the core artists in the museum’s Modern art collection
NewsMuseum trustees
‘Toxic philanthropy’ versus ‘egalitarian principles’: artists, art workers and activists call for Leon Black’s removal as MoMA board chairman
Signers allude to his payments to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and other financial ties
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2021
Smelly shows, fast cars and a swamp in a nightclub: the strangest art exhibitions coming up in 2021
Other highlights include a show on famous animals and the most lavish banquets in art history
BlogDiary
Viral inauguration meme brings together Marina Abramovic and Bernie Sanders—plus those mittens
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2021
The biggest art exhibitions opening around the world in 2021
The new year's must-see shows include Vermeer and Botticelli blockbusters; major Jasper Johns and Yayoi Kusama retrospectives; and sweeping surveys on Iran, slavery and queer art
FeatureCoronavirus resources
Locked down with kids? Check out these arty resources to keep them entertained and educated
Organisations and museums offer plenty of online art projects for parents
FeatureMedia & broadcast
The top five YouTube channels for an art fix this Christmas season
While many museums across the globe remain closed, you can still get through the virtual doors via video—from artist interviews to archival gems
InterviewA brush with
Marlon James, David Hammons and Hamilton the Musical: artist Hurvin Anderson on his cultural influences
The UK painter tells us about his favourite books, artists and creative experiences
PreviewExhibitions
Can artists change the world? MoMA show explores political art from the early 20th-century
The works on paper from the Merrill C. Berman Collection include designs for Communist posters and salad oil advertisements
FeatureMedia & broadcast
How Spotify playlists became the new exhibition audio guides
From Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Tate show playlist to the MFA Boston’s Basquiat and hip-hop soundtrack, music can have a profound effect on how we view art
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Artists and architects ask MoMA and other institutions to remove Philip Johnson’s name citing his racist views
The famous architect attended Nazi rallies in his youth and openly made anti-Semitic and white supremacist comments
PreviewExhibitions
Garrett Bradley's America film installation goes on show at MoMA, exploring racism in black and white
The artist intersperses her work with footage from an unreleased 1914 film, believed to be the oldest surviving feature-length film with an all-Black cast
NewsArchitecture
Architect Emilio Ambasz’s foundation donates $10m to MoMA to create a green architecture institute
New entity will spur research on the relationship between architecture and nature and work toward “environmental justice”, the New York museum says
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a portal to the Utah monolith at David Zwirner to Vivian Springford’s meditative paintings at Almine Rech
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Félix Fénéon at the Museum of Modern Art
A collaboration between New York and Paris explores the dealer who championed both Neo-Impressionism and home-grown terrorism
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Betye Saar's travel sketchbooks at the Morgan Library and Museum to Rivane Neuenschwander's tapestries at Tanya Bonakdar gallery
BlogThe Insiders
Letting the art, and the visitors, breathe: a Covid-conscious Met and MoMA return from lockdown
Anxiety gives way to enlightenment as museums spring back to life
Newsreopenings
New York clears the way for the city's museums to reopen
MoMA, the Whitney, the Morgan, the American Folk Art Museum, the New Museum, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum announce plans to welcome the public, joining the Met and the New-York Historical Society
NewsPhotography
An adventure with photography: MoMA receives 300-work Gayle Greenhill Collection
The gift from the late patron’s husband will also help create a photography endowment fund through the sale of some works
AnalysisMuseums & Heritage
A crisis in community reach: MoMA's arts educators on the consequences of their contract cuts
Poorly paid and with few employment benefits, freelance museum educators are more likely to be people of colour compared with full-time staff
NewsProtests
Protest letter urges New York art institutions to rectify ‘egregious acts’ rooted in white supremacy
Signatories cite “unfair practices”, unequal pay and lack of diversity
NewsConservation & Preservation
‘A resting time for the art’: with museums shut, US conservators seize on strategies to safeguard their collections
Experts embrace a blend of remote monitoring and on-site tours, while marvelling at diminished levels of dust
ReviewBooks
Donald Judd’s work measured in time and place
Three publications explore the artist’s life through his writings, interviews and places of work
ReviewThree to see
Three artsy culinary challenges for homebound cooks this weekend
From the Museum of Modern Art's home cooking interviews to the Blanton Museum's bakeoff
Newscoronavirus
When MoMA reopens, its budget will have shrunk by $45m and its staff by 17%
Museum director Glenn D. Lowry describes it as taking a “chainsaw” to spending
NewsArt education
Wave of museum educator redundancies worldwide sparks open letter
Art historians and curators urge galleries to support education staff during coronavirus crisis
BlogDiary
MoMA and Louise Lawler launch #DrawingWithMoMA to stoke creativity in quarantine
FeatureSocial media
The top six hashtags to follow now as the art world moves onto social media
The museums of Modern art in New York and San Francisco are leading the way on promoting digital content on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
ReviewExhibitions
Will Covid-19 anxiety colour our perceptions of MoMA’s Donald Judd show?
The artist’s requirement that his works be viewed through a relaxed prism may be too much for a post-pandemic world
PreviewExhibitions
'Strikingly experimental': major Donald Judd survey to open this week in New York
The exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, including 70 works made between 1960 and 1992, will trace the artist's development by focusing on key turning points in his career
PreviewExhibitions
Neri Oxman harnesses the powers of 17,000 silkworms for New York show
The designer has employed natural processes and used materials from plants and shellfish for her exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art
NewsMuseum of Modern Art New York
'Universally admired' arts patron Agnes Gund stars in new documentary at MoMA
The film, directed by her daughter Catherine, shows the roots of the collector's social activism
NewsMuseums
MoMA acquires historic Gordon Parks series The Atmosphere of Crime
The photographs will go on view in the New York museum's permanent collection galleries in May, along with a selection of works by other artists and a clip from the classic 1971 film Shaft
ReviewExhibitions
Betye Saar conjures a new mythology at MoMA
The artist’s prints and assemblage works use symbolism to ascribe meaning to Black women’s place in the world
NewsThe Year in Review 2019
From the MoMA expansion to ‘artwashing’ ill-gotten wealth: the major museum moments of 2019
We look back at the biggest stories of the year
NewsPrizes
MoMA director Glenn Lowry edges out Nan Goldin to top Art Review's Power 100 list
Banksy makes his debut at number 14 while dealer David Zwirner drops from first place to fifth
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: the new MoMA
After a $450m expansion and radical rehang, has the 20th century’s emblematic museum found a place in the 21st?
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
MoMA gears up for its next big collection rehang
After grand expansion, New York museum is already planning to swap out more than 700 works next spring
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
Dissecting a gallery in a remade MoMA
Among the most striking examples of the museum's more global and inclusive approach is a gallery with the theme War Within, War Without
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Betye Saar’s mysticism at MoMA to the first retrospective dedicated to conceptual photographer Duane Michals at the Morgan Library and Museum
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
Off the wall: MoMA opens spaces for visitors to get up close and personal with Modernism
Museum unveils experimental Studio for live art and invites public participation in the Creativity Lab
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
What art world figures think of MoMA's $450m makeover
Curators and dealers perceive a “new metabolism” in the permanent collection galleries
NewsMuseum of Modern Art New York
Seven arrested at protest during MoMA’s public opening
Demonstrators blocked the museum’s entrance and sat in the street as they demanded the removal of Steven Tananbaum — a financier whose company owns $2.5bn in Puerto Rican debt — from its board of trustees
BlogLinda on the loose
The new MoMA makes New York—and its artists—proud
NewsInvestigation
Protesters call for removal of MoMA trustee linked to Puerto Rican debt crisis
As the museum opens an ambitious $450m expansion, activists are demanding that “vulture fund” investor Steven Tananbaum be taken off the board—but he is not the only trustee with financial interests in the island
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
'Art history isn’t the neat package you think it is': first look at MoMA's $450m expansion
How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening
NewsExhibitions
MoMA will celebrate reopening with six site-specific works in its public spaces
Installations range from Haim Steinbach’s phrases and slogans to Yoko Ono’s blue sky
NewsMuseums
With Jean Pigozzi's contemporary African art donation, MoMA to become a 'leader' in the field
The museum says the gift will play an important role in the reconfiguration of its permanent collection
ArchiveRobert Ryman
White-out at the Tate as Ryman exhibition begins its journey
Robert Ryman exhibition shared with MoMA, New York, will also travel to Madrid, San Fransisco, and Minneapolis
NewsAppointments & departures
MoMA PS1 hires former Garage Museum curator as its director
Kate Fowle, known as a champion of artists and curatorial innovation, succeeds Klaus Biesenbach
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Van Gogh’s astonishing week in the asylum, 130 years ago—when he painted an olive grove and a starry night
By coincidence, both pictures ended up at New York’s MoMA, which is now planning a redisplay
BlogFrieze New York 2019
Frieze New York diary: from Tom Sachs channeling Family Guy to an art handler at centre stage
Plus, Helena Christensen supports MFA graduates and MoMA screens the de-installation of Picasso's Guernica
PreviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Winogrand's little-known colour photographs to Miró's mammoth canvas
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Collector's Eye: an interview with Bernard Lumpkin, a 'black art ambassador'
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
ReviewExhibitions
Two shows that lost the plot
Joan Miró at MoMA and the Neue Galerie’s self-Portrait survey are both filled with great works, but they forget to stick to their themes all the way through
FeatureArt's Most Popular 2019
Relax and immerse yourself... the art of experiencing museums slowly
Schemes such as Slow Art Day offer an alternative to life in the fast lane, away from the jostling crowds and selfie-takers
AnalysisArt's Most Popular 2019
Art's Most Popular: here are 2018's most visited shows and museums
Fashion continues upward trend in the US, shooting to the top of The Art Newspaper's chart, while the British Museum slips from the top spot in the UK
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the "computer cowgirl" Gretchen Bender to Girault de Prangey's haunting snapshots of the past
NewsMuseum of Modern Art New York
Ninety years on, MoMA rediscovers its radical soul
New York museum's rotating rehang will emphasise diverse permanent collection to celebrate the “pluriverse” of art
Feature
Art world’s wage inequality sparks waves of protests
While museums pursue multimillion-dollar expansion projects, art workers consider themselves underpaid—and feel the squeeze of a growing wage gap
FeatureExhibitions
Making Miró: MoMA show explores turning point in artist’s career
An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art focuses on The Birth of the World, a 1925 painting that marks a definitive turning point for Joan Miró
NewsLoans
Hermitage and MoMA heads seek end to US-Russian loans freeze
Diplomats hint at future cooperation between the countries at Texas conference
NewsMuseum of Modern Art New York
New York's MoMA to close for four months for renovation
Rethinking the Modernist canon, New York museum is changing the presentation of its permanent collection
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the many sides of Bruce Nauman to the many subjects of Eugene Richards
ReviewExhibitions
A dive into Bruce Nauman’s confounding, zigzagging career
Nauman's early artistic quandaries seem to have manifested larger cultural anxieties that have never really abated
NewsBuilding projects
Couple donates $40m for MoMA's renovation and expansion
Acknowledging gift, museum names a film center after Debra and Leon Black
Podcast
Bruce Nauman’s New York takeover. Plus, the British Museum dusts down its Islamic art galleries
We talk to the curator Kathy Halbreich about the giant two-part Bruce Nauman retrospective at MoMA and MoMA PS1. Plus, the specialist in Islamic studies Jane Jakeman reviews the new Islamic displays at London’s British Museum. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
BlogDiary
'Pay Attention Mother Fuckers': Bruce Nauman’s slippery, split-up MoMA retrospective rewards vigilant viewers
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Jump aboard Tauba Auerbach's dazzling fireboat for the Public Art Fund and then get lost in a concrete utopia at MoMA
News
Culture Pass has New Yorkers reaching for their library cards—but demand is exceeding supply
New scheme offering free tickets to some of the city’s most popular museums had thousands of responses
News
MoMA agrees to museum-wide raises after months of negotiations with union
"The museum shifted its position substantially", union boss says
NewsProtest
MoMA employees lead protest on eve of union negotiations
Around 250 staff members have been working without a contract since 20 May
PreviewExhibitions
How Yugoslavia’s architecture tried to cement a national identity
Exhibition at New York's MoMA aims to show how monumental buildings contributed to a “collective civic space in a multi-ethnic society”
News
Unionised MoMA staff protest low wages during Party in the Garden fundraising gala
Around 250 workers are fighting for better pay and benefits, as the museum gears up to open a $400m expansion
PreviewExhibitions
The futuristic architecture that emerged from Mobutu’s Kinshasa comes to MoMA
First US survey of Bodys Isek Kingelez shows how his sculptures addressed urban, social and economic concerns in Congo
ReviewExhibitions
Blood, sweat, tears, piss and vinegar: Adrian Piper at MoMA
The retrospective shows how the artist has reckoned with structures of racial, gender and sexual oppression through her 50-year career
NewsAcquisitions
Controversial 'hip-hop version' of the Virgin Mary given to MoMA
Chris Ofili's work—donated by hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen—was once at the centre of a New York culture war
PreviewExhibitions
Adrian Piper, who took conceptualism to Macy’s, gets major New York retrospective
Museum of Modern Art dedicates entire sixth floor to 280-work show—a first for a living artist
Comment
Museums have a duty to be political
Activist curators and directors can make truly democratic spaces, but they need brave boards to support them
PreviewMedia & broadcast
What to see at Documentary Fortnight at MoMA
From the history of Cuba to a gay beauty pageant to the Kitsch of Prejudice, the museum’s annual film series has plenty to offer
CommentCovid-19
'Museums had better not be planning for a return to the status quo'
If institutions keep admission limits in place, they’ll come out of the coronavirus crisis in better health, says art critic Blake Gopnik
Blake Gopnik