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  1. performance pieces
    Want Enlightenment? Go to MoMA and Ask for CynthiaIf you keep buying things, you’ll never achieve understanding.
    By Jillian Steinhauer
  2. art review
    The Deadpan Precision of Ed RuschaCars, suntans, palm trees, and swimming pools.
    By Jerry Saltz
  3. art
    MoMA’s Glorified Lava LampRefik Anadol’s Unsupervised is a crowd-pleasing, like-generating mediocrity.
    By Jerry Saltz
  4. art
    Wolfgang Tillmans Changed What Photos Look LikeA career retrospective becomes a cathedral of the mundane.
    By Jerry Saltz
  5. art review
    Matisse’s Miracle in RedA small exhibition at MoMA captures a big moment in Modernism.
    By Jerry Saltz
  6. art
    Donald Judd’s Minimalist Legacy Is All Around UsThe artist wanted his work totally empty. Which allowed the world to make anything out of it.
    By Jerry Saltz
  7. the lost canon
    Beauford Delaney Very Nearly Disappeared from Art HistoryAs a black, gay painter, even when he was celebrated, it was not as an equal to his contemporaries.
    By Jerry Saltz
  8. art and architecture
    Two Critics — Art and Architecture — Compare Their New MoMA ExperiencesSaltz and Davidson on the newly expanded museum.
    By Justin Davidson and Jerry Saltz
  9. art
    What Does the New MoMA Mean for Modernism? And What Was Modernism Anyway?The reimagined Museum of Modern Art tries to open itself up.
    By Jerry Saltz
  10. fall preview 2019
    The Best and Biggest Art Shows to See to This FallFrom JR, Amy Sherald, Pope.L, and more.
    By Jerry Saltz and Carl Swanson
  11. best of 2018
    Jerry Saltz’s 10 Best Art Shows of 2018Including an abstract pioneer and presidential portraiture.
    By Jerry Saltz
  12. art
    This Long-Running MoMA Show Might Restore Your Faith in UtopianismFinding solace in Bodys Isek Kingelez.
    By Jerry Saltz
  13. architecture
    The MoMA’s Tribute to Yugoslavia’s ‘Concrete Utopia’ Is a RevelationThis hugely ambitious show portrays an idiosyncratic, multiethnic, and open postwar society that propelled itself into the industrial age with brio.
    By Justin Davidson
  14. exclusive
    MoMA Is Screening Twin Peaks: The Return for FreeIs it future or is it past? Is it TV or is it film?
    By Devon Ivie
  15. Jerry Saltz: I Give In, MoMA. You’ve Won Me Over. (Halfway, Anyway.)MoMA has been this broken spatial matrix since November 4, 2004, the day it reopened with great fanfare.
    By Jerry Saltz
  16. podcasts
    WNYC and MoMA Are Making an Artsy Podcast with Broad City’s Abbi JacobsonTwo major New York cultural institutions are coming together to make a podcast baby.
    By Nicholas Quah
  17. trump travel ban
    MoMa Foregrounds Art From Countries Affected by Trump Travel BanThe museum is moving pieces from the Western canon in order to showcase art from Iran, Iraq, and Sudan.
    By Karen Brill
  18. This Francis Picabia Retrospective Is a Call to MutinyPicabia wakes the polis.
    By Jerry Saltz
  19. America’s Dad Tom Hanks Wants to Reassure You That America Will Be Okay“[The constitution] is going to protect us, over and over again, whether or not our neighbors preserve and protect and defend it themselves.”
    By Jennifer Vineyard
  20. art du jour
    The World’s First Emoji Are Going to Be Displayed at MoMA[Face with tears of joy emoji.]
    By Devon Ivie
  21. How Picasso the Sculptor Ruptured Art History“Picasso Sculpture” could be one of the great learning experiences of your seeing life.
    By Jerry Saltz
  22. Wael Shawky’s Epic Films Will Completely Change How You See the CrusadesThey are the most intoxicating, savage masterpieces of the Crusades I’ve seen anywhere, on film or otherwise.
    By Jerry Saltz
  23. videology
    Watch Two of Björk’s Stunning MoMA Videos“Stonemilker” and “Black Lake.”
    By Dee Lockett
  24. Meet Awol Erizku, the Art World’s New It BoyThe 26-year-old artist everyone seems to know.
    By Tahirah Hairston
  25. art
    Yoko Ono and the Myth That Deserves to DieWhy is it such a perennial youthful rite of passage to misunderstand, to underestimate, even to hate Yoko Ono?
    By Lindsay Zoladz
  26. art
    MoMA’s Björk DisasterI wanted to be surprised and proven wrong about the Björk show. Alas, I haven’t been. 
    By Jerry Saltz
  27. artsy
    Here’s Björk’s Beautiful MoMA TrailerHer retrospective will be at the museum from March 8 to June 7.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  28. MoMA’s Monet Fire SaleThe institution’s latest off-putting move is auctioning a Claude Monet from its collection.
    By Jerry Saltz
  29. review
    MoMA’s Schemes for Fixing Urban Problems Are Either Too Dainty or Too SweepingThe museum’s “Uneven Growth” exhibition feels shaky and simplistic, predicated on a vague and reductive view of global economics and an inflated belief in the power of architecture.
    By Justin Davidson
  30. kid critics
    Playing Critic With Schoolchildren at MoMA’s ‘Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs’ “I think those are hearts. And that might be seaweed.”
    By S. Jhoanna Robledo
  31. seeing out loud
    Do Not Miss MoMA’s Overwhelming Henri Matisse ExhibitionFew artists reward prolonged scrutiny more than Matisse.
    By Jerry Saltz
  32. seeing out loud
    Art Review: The Great, Inscrutable Robert GoberI don’t understand Gober’s work. That’s how I know how good it is.
    By Jerry Saltz
  33. architecture
    Why It’s So Hard to Keep Beaux-Arts Museums Looking BeautifulThe same problem keeps cropping up at the Frick.
    By Justin Davidson
  34. I Love Björk, But a MoMA Retrospective Is a Terrible IdeaMoMA’s “mad marriage of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and amusement park.”
    By Jerry Saltz
  35. seeing out loud
    Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on Sigmar Polke at MoMA“A show of a great artist with great work that fails to be great.”
    By Jerry Saltz
  36. seeing out loud
    Saltz: This Renovation Plan Will Ruin MoMAThe greatest collection of modernism on Earth has been relegated to rotating storage.
    By Jerry Saltz
  37. art
    Davidson on How to Adapt the American Folk Art MuseumDavidson: “There is a more attractive alternative.”
    By Justin Davidson
  38. Jerry Saltz to MoMA’s Trustees: Please, Reject This Awful Expansion PlanAn art critic’s plea.
    By Jerry Saltz
  39. art
    Saltz: The Next MoMA Expansion Is As Big a Mess As the Last One“The more I heard and saw, the sicker and sadder I got.”
    By Jerry Saltz
  40. art
    Davidson: MoMA Reveals Its Expansion PlansAnd the fate of the American Folk Art Museum.
    By Justin Davidson
  41. seeing out loud
    Jerry Saltz: My Final Word on MoMA’s Woman Problem“I’ve said this enough times, and I am done complaining about it.”
    By Jerry Saltz
  42. classical music
    Justin Davidson on the MoMA’s First Sound Art ExhibitionThe artists in Soundings all seem to live in isolation booths.
    By Justin Davidson
  43. architecture
    Justin Davidson on MoMA’s Departing Barry BergdollThe museum will lose a quiet crusader.
    By Justin Davidson
  44. architecture
    Justin Davidson on the Twin Legacies of Le CorbusierWhy architects have never stopped paying tribute to him. ­
    By Justin Davidson
  45. Davidson: MoMA May Not Tear Down the American Folk Art Museum After AllPotentially good news for the museum’s defenders.
    By Justin Davidson
  46. installations
    Inside MoMA’s Rain Room InstallationOpening May 12, visitors briefly gain godlike control over wet weather.
  47. art
    Saltz on MoMA’s Plan to Raze Folk Art MuseumIt was doomed to death as an art museum from the beginning.
    By Jerry Saltz
  48. architecture
    Davidson on MoMA’s Plan to Raze Folk Art MuseumIf the museum’s architects can’t figure out a way to use the building, that is a failure of imagination.
    By Justin Davidson
  49. glass case of non-emotion
    Jerry Saltz on MoMA’s Sleeping Tilda SwintonBlame Marina Abramovic.
    By Jerry Saltz
  50. great things
    Tilda Swinton to Occasionally Sleep in a Glass Box at MoMAFriday was her first performance.
    By Andre Tartar
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