iThe Museum of Modern Art holds one of the world's most important collections of modern and contemporary art, spanning painting, sculpture, photography, film, design, and architecture from the 1880s to today. Founded in 1929 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and two fellow patrons, it pioneered the museum treatment of modern art and now displays icons like Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and Monet's Water Lilies. A major 2019 expansion enlarged the galleries, while the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden remains a tranquil Midtown oasis.

Joan Snyder's abstract paintings layer oil and acrylic with fabric, plastic fruit, flowers and straw, drawing on more than 50 years of experimental, symbol-laden painting.

Sheree Hovsepian assembles photographs of body parts with ceramics, hosiery, string and wood into three-dimensional compositions exploring the human figure in fragments.

Freestanding screens throughout the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden use machine learning and fMRI-derived data to generate hallucinatory images in real time, exploring nonhuman and machine cognition.

The first major survey of modern architecture across seven West African nations from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, exploring how building shaped newly independent states. Most objects have never been shown publicly.

Spanning more than 100 years, this exhibition traces animation's roots in New York through the work of more than 35 artists and filmmakers, from silent-era icons like Felix the Cat to independent animators of later decades.

An installation extending Yoko Ono's decades of peace activism and her history of collaborations with MoMA, spreading her "Imagine Peace" message via billboards, postcards and other formats.

A large-scale, site-specific commission in MoMA's lobby: a floor-to-ceiling kaleidoscope of bright colors and abstract patterns, painted over six weeks and inspired for the first time by music.

Marianne Wex's 1970s feminist photo survey of gendered body language is shown alongside contemporary artists Nona Faustine, Martine Gutierrez, K8 Hardy, Yuki Kihara, Joiri Minaya, Paulina Olowska, and Wendy Red Star, reappraising bodies in public space.

A survey of painter Nilima Sheikh's five-decade practice, tracing her engagement with Kashmir through narrative scroll paintings including a new, site-responsive series debuting at MoMA.

MoMA's first exhibition devoted entirely to information design, presenting 30 works of digital and analog design (including six new acquisitions) that explore how designers help visualize and shape our understanding of complex data.

A survey of Surrealism's book-as-art-object experiments by André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Claude Cahun, Max Ernst and others, built around a major gift of rare artists' books from the Helen and Sam Zell Collection.

Digital installation Berl-Berl reimagines Berlin's lost wetlands as a singing, digital swamp, blending ecological research, Slavic folklore and game-engine technology to explore human and more-than-human worlds.

For the first time in decades, rarely lent sculptures leave Brancusi's Paris atelier (closed for renovation) to join MoMA's Brancusi collection, alongside his photographs, films, hand-carved furniture, tools and archival materials.

Na Mira's first solo museum exhibition in New York: a newly commissioned media installation in the Kravis Studio using radio frequencies, infrared heat and holography, drawing on Korean shamanism and structural filmmaking.

The first major survey of Piet Mondrian's final New York years (1940-44), reuniting Broadway Boogie Woogie and Victory Boogie Woogie for the first time in 30 years and tracing boogie woogie's influence on his late compositions.
New commission by Herndon and Dryhurst: choral performances with audience participation in the Kravis Studio train AI models, whose audiovisual output shows on the Hyundai Card Digital Wall.
Artist-centred history of modern African art in the independence years, built around congresses and festivals in Zimbabwe, Senegal, Algeria, Nigeria and South Africa.
New York's first major Eva Hesse museum show in over 20 years, centred on her drawings, with key paintings and major sculptures including Contingent (1969).

MoMA's fifth-floor galleries trace modern art from Post-Impressionism through mid-century, home to Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and Monet's Water Lilies.
Fourth-floor galleries present postwar art through 1980, from Abstract Expressionism and Pop to Minimalism, with works by Pollock, Rothko, Warhol, and their contemporaries.

MoMA's second-floor galleries, newly opened, arrange the collection from 1980 to today in loosely chronological rooms devoted to individual artists, mediums and ideas, with frequent reinstallation.
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