Of all the senses, touch is the biggest taboo in a museum. Glass cases, stanchions, and signs pepper the galleries to remind us not to touch the art, in order to protect it. But what if allowing touch ...

An homage in three acts: Louise Lawler shares a postcard, Christopher Williams remembers Baldessari’s studio, and Stephen Prina sings one of the great Conceptualist’s paintings. Christopher Williams, ...

Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's landmark photobook An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion weaves together text drawn from field notes, folk song lyrics, newspaper excerpts, sociological ...

Our photogrammetry projects have mainly focused on sculptures and other obviously 3D objects. But every painting also has dimension and shape, which is most noticeable in works like The Starry Night ...

Elizabeth Catlett ’s terra cotta sculpture Mother and Child stands less than a foot off of its pedestal, but it feels much larger. It conveys an expansiveness that comes, to my mind, from the uncanny ...

In France, the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded in 1648 under the aegis of Louis XIV, began organizing an annual exhibition in 1667. Because the recurring location for this event was ...

In this interview from 2013, the artist discusses his work and the beginnings of the Beirut-based photography archive.

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take ...

We hope these will help create even the smallest shift to make things a bit more bearable. It’s okay to feel grief, anger, confusion, and to feel exhausted, unfocused, and unmotivated. Just like this ...

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 ...

Susan Rothenberg has left an indelible mark on the art world and on MoMA’s collection. Her work has been admired by multiple generations of curators and supporters. As a result, the Museum’s holdings ...

Do you find echoes of your experience in these stories, or do they feel strange and alien? Perhaps you’ve had a vastly different emotional experience with the same works of art described here. While ...