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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the occasion of the exhibition Vital Signs: Artists and the Body, we spoke with art historian Cyle Metzger about Forrest Bess, an artist central to Metzger’s work on the trans history of art in the ...

At the end of the 19th century, the population of Berlin reached almost two million, far exceeding its capacity. It is estimated that by 1912, 100,000 of the city’s dwellings were inhabited by 600,000 ...

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 ...

Study for Man and Machine. 1921 Made toward the end of the Berlin Dada period, Study for Man and Machine feels unmistakably relevant today. It reflects that movement’s preoccupation with technology, ...

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Medium Encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas surmounted by four tinted-plaster faces in wood box with hinged front Dimensions Overall, with box open, 33 5/8 x 26 x 3" (85.3 x 66 x 7.6 cm); ...

In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. That project has concluded, and works are now being ...