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Sep 26

Explore an astonishing period of creativity for Picasso. A new exhibition opening 10/8 reunites key works for the first time since they left #Picasso's studio in Fontainebleau → mo.ma/picasso2023 — © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Oct 27, 2020

After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.

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Jan 20, 2021

Bernie is present

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Jan 20, 2021

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Aug 28, 2020

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Best of Nextdoor

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Aug 28, 2020

"Not sure of authenticity..."

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Mar 27, 2015

Kids review MoMA: "I did not see a dinosaur. You call yourself a museum!" #FamilyMW bit.ly/1H74LeZ

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Feb 3, 2017

In response to last week's travel ban, we have installed works by artists from the nations denied entry to the US: mo.ma/2l524Wk

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May 4, 2021

#MayThe4thBeWithYou

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Jan 21, 2021

No apology necessary

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Michael Lobel

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Jan 21, 2021

With all due apologies to @MuseumModernArt & Andrew Wyeth

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Mar 10, 2021

Tell us about an artwork that always make you smile. We'll go first:

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Sep 23

Bringing you bold autumn colors to kick off the first day of fall and Libra season! Mark Rothko was a Libra, born on September 25, 1903.

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Sep 10

“I don’t have any Seine River like Monet, I’ve just got US 66 between Oklahoma and Los Angeles.” — Ed Ruscha

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Nov 22, 2021

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do." — Frida Kahlo — Frida Kahlo. “Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair.” 1940.

Readers added context

Frida Kahlo did not say what this major museum attributes to her: quoteinvestigator.com/2016/01/28/fla…

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Nov 3, 2020

Monet hoped his Water Lilies would be a “refuge of peaceful meditation in the center of a flowering aquarium.” Whether you’re working at the polls, waiting to cast your vote, or anxiously watching the news, take a minute to breathe & quiet your mind. #ArtfulPracticesforWellbeing

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Mar 14, 2015

We're celebrating Latin American architecture with

@Instagram

meet-ups today! #ArquiMoMA bit.ly/1L8yLNQ

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Jan 22, 2021

This is art

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Matt Soffer

@mattsoffer

Jan 21, 2021

Yet another reason to visit @MuseumModernArt #Berniememes

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Jan 9

🦗 Filming an eleven-inch Pinocchio puppet whose companion is a cricket less than one inch tall can get…complicated. Discover the craft and collaboration of "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" in a new exhibition → mo.ma/deltoro

@PinocchioMovie

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Dec 9, 2020

❄️ Welcoming the first snow in NYC ❄️ 📸 Andreas Feininger, Big Snow, 42nd Street, 1956

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Sep 30, 2020

About last night... 😱 Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1895 #Debates2020

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Nov 19, 2022

“I am trying to find ways to connect memories with the future and to make the invisible visible.” —

@refikanadol

Now open! See #Unsupervised, an installation using AI to interpret and transform more than two hundred years of art at MoMA → mo.ma/anadol

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Jul 19

How does this painting make you feel?

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Sep 26, 2021

The next Monet? We’re loving this painting by Mei inspired by Claude Monet’s “Agapanthus” after a visit to MoMA! Repost yui.koketsu on Instagram

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Oct 9, 2020

@Avedon

Foundation

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Jan 9

A director of myths and fairytales,

's films move and terrify, calling viewers to embrace imperfection, find redemption in the grotesque, and dream of a better world. See a retrospective of Del Toro's work in theaters through Jan 29 → mo.ma/3gYTZVI

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Apr 6, 2017

We've launched a digital exhibition of works in the #MoMACollection by artists who immigrated to the US. Explore at mo.ma/crossingborders

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Jun 12, 2016

Our thoughts are with the #Orlando victims, their families, and the LGBTQ community.

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Dec 18, 2022

“No art form has influenced my life and my work more than animation and no single character in history has had as deep of a personal connection to me as Pinocchio.” —

On view now! See “Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio" → mo.ma/deltoro

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Mar 2, 2020

In honor of performance artist Ulay, who died today at age 76, we're looking back to the electric moment when he sat with his former partner and collaborator Marina Abramović during "The Artist Is Present" in 2010, their first meeting since 1988. 📷: Scott Rudd

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Oct 31, 2016

Loving this year's #Halloween pumpkin! An interpretation of Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon." Thank you

@maniacpumpkins

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Oct 4, 2021

Replying to

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Hi,

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! — Edward Ruscha. “OOF.” 1962 (reworked 1963)

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Dec 11, 2022

Now open! Discover the craft and collaboration of Guillermo del Toro's #Pinocchio in a new, behind-the-scenes exhibition. 🎟️ Learn more and plan your visit → mo.ma/deltoro

#PinocchioMovie

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Sep 8, 2020

#OTD in 1981 Picasso’s "Guernica" was returned to the artist’s native Spain after 42 years on extended loan to MoMA. Due to security concerns, the de-installation took place in secret, and the painting flew on a commercial flight that night. Learn more: mo.ma/history

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Nov 27, 2022

¡Entra en el mundo del niño de madera! "Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio" se estrena pronto, el 11 de diciembre. 🎟️ Conoce más y planifica tu visita → mo.ma/deltoro

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Apr 7, 2021

Frida Kahlo always understands the assignment

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Feb 10, 2021

Sealing our #MuseumLoveLetter with a socially-distanced kiss 😚💌💞 To:

Love, MoMA 🎨 René Magritte, The Lovers, 1928

Painting showing two figures with shrouds over their faces, locked in a kiss.

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Vogue Portugal and Molly O'Cathain

Apr 15, 2020

Rene Magritte’s “The Lovers” has captured the public imagination in this #MuseumFromHome moment. The scene feels unsettlingly apropos, yet offers a hopeful reminder on #WorldArtDay that art can be found and made anywhere. Interpretations by

@VoguePortugal

@MollyOCath

@nypost

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Sesame Street and Cookie Monster

Nov 10, 2020

MoMA is a place for everyone to find inspiration—even 🍪monsters. On #SesameStreetDay, we're remembering when

@MeCookieMonster

surprised us with a visit!

Cookie Monster points to Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night in surprise as two (human) visitors look on in the background.

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May 13, 2021

OK, but the lack of dinosaurs is a fair critique twitter.com/MuseumNext/sta

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Aug 16, 2018

Artistry inspires artistry. Remembering the ‘Queen of Soul,’ Aretha Franklin with this 1986 #MoMACollection album cover by Andy Warhol. mo.ma/2MnXtjB

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Nov 12, 2018

For stories told, imaginations ignited, and artistry inspired—thank you Stan Lee. Excelsior! 🎨 : “Spiderman”(1971-74) by Sigmar Polke: mo.ma/2QAcZYg #MoMACollection

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Mar 30, 2021

We're spending Vincent van Gogh's #VirtualBirthdayParty looking at the same stars he did... right? The artist painted "The Starry Night" over several sessions during the day, under entirely different atmospheric conditions!

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Mar 30, 2021

Happy birthday, Vincent van Gogh!

Here are some favorites from our collection

…and every birthday deserves a celebration.

@vangoghmuseum & @MuseumModernArt would you like to join the fun? Can you bring any fun facts or works from your collection? #VirtualBirthdayParty

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Dec 22, 2020

"Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful." —Vincent van Gogh 2020 was a tough year for all of us. With our friends

@vangoghmuseum

, we invite you to take a breath & look up to the sky. Share the beauty around you with #UnderVanGoghsSky.

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Nov 27, 2022

Step into the world of the wooden boy! “Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio” opens in just a few weeks on December 11. 🎟️ Learn more and plan your visit → mo.ma/deltoro

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Nov 1, 2020

The beauty of New York in the rain ❤️ 📸 J. Jay Hirz, Brooklyn Bridge in Rainy Weather, 1927. © Hirz/Frederic Lewis/Archive Photos/Getty Images

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Mar 17, 2020

In that Edward Hopper state of mind

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Michael Tisserand

@m_tisserand

Mar 16, 2020

we are all edward hopper paintings now

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Feb 2, 2016

Today is the NYC #MuseumInstaSwap! See our pics of

@AMNH

& search the tag to see all orgs! bit.ly/1Qre69m

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Oct 17, 2016

Start your day with Monet's "Water Lilies" and guided meditation. Introducing Quiet Mornings, Wednesdays in October. mo.ma/2dr9TlQ

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Take a close look at Andrew Wyeth’s painting “Christina’s World”:

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Jul 27

Did you know this postman was a close friend of Vincent van Gogh?

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Oct 21, 2021

20 years ago today we were all shocked to learn that you can fit 1,000 songs in your pocket! Happy anniversary to the first iPod—the "walkman of the 21st century" that changed the way we listen to music. — Jonathan Ive, Apple Industrial Design Group. “iPod.” 2001.

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Sep 30

The daytime partner to Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night.”

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Dec 21, 2020

A reminder from Van Gogh to look up at the sky tonight to experience a special celestial event 💫 Jupiter and Saturn will share a "Christmas Kiss" shortly after sunset (New Yorkers, that's 4:32pm!), appearing closer in the sky than they have in 800 years. #UnderVanGoghsSky

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Nov 15, 2016

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment." Happy birthday to Claude #Monet, born this day in 1840! mo.ma/2fR5rxN

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Feb 6, 2020

OK, definitely picking Parasite on our #Oscars ballot

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Rajendra Roy

@rajroynyc

Oct 13, 2019

Bong Joon-ho was very taken by Faith Ringgold’s “American People Series #20: Die” (1967) at #newMoMA. Among other things, he said it reminded him of a certain garden party...

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Jan 21

How do you animate Death when "a creature could actually move in many different ways"? Discover the craft and collaboration of "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" in a new exhibition → mo.ma/deltoro

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Jun 22, 2020

Thursday at 8pm, join us for the online premiere of

@tourmaliiine

’s Salacia. The film, starring Rowin Amone, and produced by Keanu Reeves, offers a speculative vision of Mary Jones, a Black trans woman and sex worker who lived in SoHo in the 1830s. 📸 Matt Harvey

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Feb 1, 2017

Snowing this morning in the #SculptureGarden...

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Dec 24, 2022

Did you know the silhouette for the Dogfish Puppet in “Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio” was based on old maps of sea serpents? Discover the craft and collaboration of

in a new, behind-the-scenes exhibition → mo.ma/deltoro

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Apr 6, 2020

Now that's our kind of snack

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Anita Pan

@AnitaPan_

Apr 5, 2020

Day 3 of #IsolationOreoArt. Today: #VanGogh’s #StarryNight in the collection of @MuseumModernArt, because I want to believe the stars will shine brighter after this. @Oreo @GettyMuseum @PrincetonGrad #BetweenArtandQuarantine #StayHomeSaveLives #PlanktheCurve

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Feb 8, 2021

“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time, it’s just that others are behind the times.” — Martha Graham #MondayInspiration 📸 Barbara Morgan

Black and white photograph of dancer Martha Graham executing a backward kick, right arm bent with the wrist against her forehead, left cheek to the camera. Her neck, torso, and left arm extended backward are parallel to the ground, the skirt of the dress flung back in an arc. The fabric ripples.

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Jun 24, 2018

“My craft became my activism.” –Gilbert Baker, designer of the Rainbow Flag Happy #Pride from MoMA! Celebrate the contributions of LGBTQ+ artists with our staff members' #MoMACollection picks at mo.ma/pride

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Sep 7, 2021

“One of Calder’s objects is like the sea ... always beginning over again, always new.” — Jean-Paul Sartre “Modern from the Start” is extended through January 15! Take a deep dive into #Calder’s experiments in space and motion at mo.ma/calder

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Feb 1, 2015

Celebrate women in film with a new

@MoMAFilm

series February 2–13. bit.ly/1DtyQ6U

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Jun 8, 2017

Happy birthday to #FrankLloydWright, born this day in 1867! Celebrate #FLW150 at our new exhibition opening Monday mo.ma/flw150

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Dec 9, 2022

A director of myths and fairytales, @gdtreal's rebellious, generous, expansive films move and terrify, calling viewers to embrace imperfection, find redemption in the grotesque, and dream of a better world.

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Oct 28, 2020

So good

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Sumedha Arya, MD

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Oct 28, 2020

Replying to @MuseumModernArt

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Dec 29, 2022

Step into the world of the wooden boy! “Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio” opens in just a few weeks on December 11. 🎟️ Learn more and plan your visit → mo.ma/deltoro

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May 8, 2016

Happy #MothersDay to all the moms! Klimt's "Hope II" is a stunning depiction of pregnancy. mo.ma/21LbeH7

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Pinocchio is off to the Oscars! Congratulations to all who worked on

which is nominated for an

@TheAcademy

award. Discover the craft and collaboration of the film in #CraftingPinocchio, a behind-the-scenes exhibition at MoMA → mo.ma/deltoro

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Nov 15, 2020

Mind blown 🤯

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

@neiltyson

Nov 13, 2020

van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”, Saint Rémy de Provence, France [Museum of Modern Art, NYC] Analysis of the crescent Moon and Venus, reveals that the painting captures the early morning hours near the Summer Solstice 1889 — just before sunrise. So for me, it’s “The Starry Dawn”

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Jan 24, 2022

🤩 We’re on the cover of the

@NewYorker

! Can you name all of the works in the illustration? — "Modern Life," by Sergio García Sánchez. Cover of the January 31, 2022 issue of The New Yorker. © 2022 Sergio García Sánchez & The New Yorker. Used by permission. #NewYorkerCovers

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Apr 28, 2020

Edward Hopper’s “Night Windows” exposes the voyeuristic opportunities of the modern American city—and the contradiction it offers between access to the intimate lives of strangers and urban loneliness and isolation.

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Aug 7, 2020

Ride on flying trains and discover silent acting legends with two films that are more than 100 years old. Ashley Swinnerton will be your host in week one of Film Vault Summer Camp. Watch now: mo.ma/filmvault #MoMAVirtualViews

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Jun 25, 2016

Happy #Pride2016! The rainbow flag, part of our design collection, is flying in our lobby. mo.ma/28TlDdQ

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Aug 9, 2021

"A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience." — #MarkRothko [Mark Rothko. "No. 5/No. 22." 1950 (dated on reverse 1949). Gift of the artist. © 2020 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Noah Kalina]

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Aug 4, 2022

Step into the world of the wooden boy! We’re excited to announce #GuillermoDelToro: #CraftingPinocchio, an exhibition devoted to the craft and process behind the celebrated filmmaker’s first stop-motion animation film, #Pinocchio. Learn more → mo.ma/deltoro

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

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Jan 5, 2018

The weather outside is frightful, but #MoMAGarden is 😍

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Nov 21, 2020

Aki Inomata re-created the shell of an ammonite (the octopus's ancestor) using 3-D printing techniques. This 🐙 named Mersi quickly recognized it as home. Explore how design offers strategies for repairing our world in our new exhibition #BrokenNature: mo.ma/brokennature

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Mar 26, 2016

Opening today, "#EdgarDegas: A Strange New Beauty" reveals the experimental side of Degas. mo.ma/25p362h

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Sep 29

Launching October 3! A special collection of 15 artist-designed postcards kicking off the upcoming MoMA Postcard project.

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Jul 17, 2017

In honor of #WorldEmojiDay, revisit where it all started—NTT DOCOMO’s original set of 176 emoji mo.ma/emoji #MoMACollection

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Apr 5

Last chance! “Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio” closes next Saturday, April 15. Discover the craft and collaboration of Guillermo del Toro's Oscar award winning film

@PinocchioMovie

in this behind-the-scenes exhibition → mo.ma/deltoro

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Jan 14, 2017

Happy weekend all! Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" & "Boy Leading a Horse" are back on view in our newly reinstalled 5th floor gallery

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Feb 12, 2021

We wish you and your family peace and prosperity in the #LunarNewYear and look forward to welcoming a “bullish” #YearOfTheOx! 🐂 Kiawak Ashoona, Musk Ox, 1963

Woodcut of a furry, horned ox, printed in black ink on cream paper.

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Oct 12, 2019

The latest episode of At the Museum takes us back three months to when conservators began preparing for a #newMoMA by taking works off the gallery walls and cleaning them with dusters, sponges, and a vacuum. A vacuum?!?! Watch episode five at mo.ma/31bkqcZ.

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Dec 2, 2021

What does modern art look like to a machine? In a new project, artist

@refikanadol

attempts to answer this question by training an AI model on metadata and images from MoMA’s collection. Anadol produced new media works that were recently released as NFTs with

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Oct 11, 2020

Sunday mornings at MoMA 😎

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Nov 30, 2020

Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo offer an intimate glimpse into the artist's heart and mind. Join Anna Deavere Smith on Dec 3, 8pm EST, for a reading of his letters—including the June 1889 note mentioning a “new study of a starry sky”: mo.ma/3obhSaM

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Feb 13, 2015

Yes,

@MeCookieMonster

, it's the real "Starry Night"! #CookieArtTour

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May 1, 2016

Last day! "Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey" shows the evolution of his signature style. mo.ma/1Z04683

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Dec 31, 2016

"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us." #HenriMatisse was born #onthisday in 1869

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Mar 30, 2014

Van Gogh painted "The Olive Trees" as daytime companion to "The Starry Night." Both on view! bit.ly/1h8CoxW

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Jul 29, 2015

Van Gogh died 125 years ago today. See "The Starry Night" up close in this video: bit.ly/1D9JnZP

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Jan 18, 2016

In honor of #MLKDay, Leonard Freed's photo of King greeting a crowd in Baltimore in 1964. bit.ly/1Zwaumy

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Jun 26, 2015

Today #LoveWins! Learn about the rainbow flag, recently added to MoMA's collection. bit.ly/1JnP9J6

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Aug 31, 2020

A touch of glamour for your timeline ✨ twitter.com/Surono34098683

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Dec 19, 2018

Take a walk through our #ConcreteUtopia exhibition and explore the ways architecture and design tackled issues of everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia. Watch the latest episode of HOW TO SEE: mo.ma/htsconcreteuto

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Feb 20, 2015

Cookie Monster visited MoMA last week as part of his #CookieArtTour.

@mashable

has the story: on.mash.to/1w16KkD

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