Kurita and the i-mode team drew on a wealth of influences, including existing emoticons, kaomoji, and common icons and typographic symbols. Familiarity and ease of use (emoji were selected from a menu ...

Shigeko Kubota was an indomitable figure whose multidisciplinary career spanned more than five decades. Her pivotal video sculptures from the 1970s and ’80s, several of which are featured in the ...

Untitled (Nomsa with Africa) I started wearing my hair in an Afro in 1968, at age 14. Though I didn’t know Kwame Brathwaite then, I am sure I was affected by the Black Is Beautiful movement he ...

At the height of Cold War tensions, deploying such a media-technical apparatus in service of world peace might have seemed an urgent task for artists, technological advances having long fueled ...

An excerpt from MoMA’s One on One series offers a close look at a work that became “a lightning rod for political debates.” ...

Robert Frank’s films include The Sin of Jesus, his 1961 adaptation of an Isaac Babel short story; OK End Here (1963), an intimate chamber piece featuring an original score by the great free jazz ...

Throughout the 20th century, MoMA has been a home for varied approaches to sonic art forms—from the premiere of the Moog synthesizer in 1969 and Vladimir Ussachevsky’s first tape-music concert in the ...

Nam June Paik’s Good Morning Mr. Orwell screened here March 29–April 12, 2023. The video is no longer available for streaming. Join us for the next Hyundai Card Video Views screening on April 19. On ...

Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother —made on the edge of a frozen pea field in Nipomo, California, while she was working for the US government in early March 1936—is arguably the most famous photograph ...

Read an excerpt from the ongoing book series, about a chair that reflects Mexico’s complex national identity and modern ideals of comfort and beauty. Listen to a new podcast that explores the stories ...

Listen to a new podcast that explores the stories you don’t know about the artists you think you do. Listen to a new podcast that explores the stories you don’t know about the artists you think you do ...

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