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Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media. The museum has been instrumental in shaping the history of modern art, particularly modern art from Europe.

On view

Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa

Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa

5 Jul 2026 — 2 Jan 2027

Architecture and independence across seven West African nations.

Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt

Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt

1 Jul 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

AI visions from brain scans in MoMA's Sculpture Garden

American Folk Art: Revisiting the Collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

American Folk Art: Revisiting the Collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

13 Jun 2026 — 9 Aug 2026

Rockefeller's folk-art collection returns to MoMA after 70 years.

Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree Hovsepian

Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree Hovsepian

24 Apr 2026 — 31 Oct 2026

Fragmented bodies assembled into charged 3D compositions.

Hyundai Card First Look: Joan Snyder

Hyundai Card First Look: Joan Snyder

23 Apr 2026 — 31 Oct 2026

A lush abstract painting by Joan Snyder at MoMA

Creativity Lab: Make a Portrait

Creativity Lab: Make a Portrait

13 Apr 2026 — 30 Aug 2026

A hands-on portrait studio by Souls in Focus at MoMA.

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

12 Apr 2026 — 22 Aug 2026

300 works spanning Duchamp's career-long reinvention of art

Frida and Diego: The Last Dream

Frida and Diego: The Last Dream

21 Mar 2026 — 12 Sep 2026

Kahlo and Rivera united in a MoMA and Met Opera collaboration.

Peggy Weil: Core Memory

Peggy Weil: Core Memory

7 Mar 2026 — 4 Oct 2026

Ice cores and deep time on MoMA's immersive lobby screen.

Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination

Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination

14 Dec 2025 — 25 Jul 2026

A compelling group show exploring how mid-20th-century photographers across Central and West Africa used portraiture to fuel Pan-African solidarity and decolonial politics.

The Modern Window: Julien Ceccaldi

The Modern Window: Julien Ceccaldi

14 Nov 2025 — 30 Sep 2026

Anime-inflected installation of city life at MoMA

Modern Mural: Nina Chanel Abney's LOVE NYC

Modern Mural: Nina Chanel Abney's LOVE NYC

from 27 Sep 2025

Abney's vibrant paper cut-out mural reimagines NYC and MoMA icons.

Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life

Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life

8 Apr 2025 — 27 Apr 2027

Immersive abstract mural inspired by music at MoMA

The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-Go

The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-Go

8 Mar 2025 — 1 Mar 2027

A student-imagined mural of a parallel New York City

Art Lab: Sound

Art Lab: Sound

from 25 Nov 2024

Explore sound, sculpture, and interactive art at MoMA.

Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation

from 20 Nov 2004

A 2004 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art presenting a foundational display of painting and sculpture works.

Mondrian Boogie Woogie

Mondrian Boogie Woogie

21 Mar 2027 — 31 Jul 2027

The first major survey of Mondrian's New York years (1940–44) reunites Broadway Boogie Woogie and Victory Boogie Woogie for the first time in 30 years, tracing how boogie woogie music transformed his art.

Na Mira: NO SMOKING

Na Mira: NO SMOKING

14 Nov 2026 — 15 Feb 2027

Holography and ritual collide in Na Mira's MoMA debut.

Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio

Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio

25 Oct 2026 — 27 Feb 2027

Rare Paris loans illuminate Brancusi's legendary studio

The Surrealist Book

The Surrealist Book

4 Oct 2026 — 23 Jan 2027

MoMA presents a landmark survey of Surrealist books — from glass-bound volumes to solarized photo-poems — tracing the movement's radical reinvention of the printed page from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives

Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives

20 Sep 2026 — 2 May 2027

Eight artists reclaim space through a feminist photographic lens.

Studio Residency: Pageant

Studio Residency: Pageant

8 Aug 2026 — 30 Aug 2026

Brooklyn's Pageant collective takes over MoMA's Kravis Studio.

It's Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection

It's Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection

1 Aug 2026 — 31 Aug 2027

MoMA surveys over 100 years of animation, spotlighting New York's pivotal role and the work of 35+ filmmakers who shaped the medium from silent-era icons to the MTV age.

Past exhibitions (11)
MoMA Staff Art Exhibition 2026

MoMA Staff Art Exhibition 2026

18 May 2026 — 5 Jul 2026

MoMA turns the spotlight on its own staff in this wide-ranging group show featuring works in diverse mediums by over a hundred museum employees who are also practicing artists.

Artist's Choice: Arthur Jafa — Less Is Morbid

Artist's Choice: Arthur Jafa — Less Is Morbid

19 Nov 2025 — 5 Jul 2026

Arthur Jafa curates MoMA's collection into a bold meditation

The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower

The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower

10 Jul 2025 — 12 Jul 2026

A restored capsule from Tokyo's iconic Metabolist tower

Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography

Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography

28 Jun 2025 — 21 Jun 2026

How Hollywood manufactured celebrity, one retouched photo at a time.

Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP

21 Feb 2025 — 20 Jul 2025

CAMP's critical media art on images and power at MoMA

Pirouette: Turning Points in Design

26 Jan 2025 — 15 Nov 2025

Iconic and inventive design objects at MoMA

Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces

9 Oct 2022 — 18 Feb 2023

MoMA honors the legendary Black avant-garde gallery JAM.

Never Alone: Video Games as Interactive Design

10 Sep 2022 — 16 Jul 2023

Video games as interactive design at MoMA

The Shaping of New Visions: Photograph, Film, Photobook

from 16 Apr 2012

A 2012 MoMA exhibition tracing how photography, film, and the photobook redefined visual culture — a landmark survey of the medium's most transformative moments.

Figure in the Garden

from 20 May 2011

A 2011 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art exploring the theme of the human figure set within garden landscapes across modern art.

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden: Inaugural Installation

from 20 Nov 2004

MoMA's newly renovated Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden opens with an inaugural installation showcasing modern and contemporary sculpture in a reimagined outdoor setting.