2010s

Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and a leading expert on Soviet nonconformist art, challenges us to redefine the basic meaning of “art.”

Catherine David, Deputy Director, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, presents her past and current curatorial projects and discusses how to increase the visibility of works of art made around the world.

Budapest-based art historians and curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes comment on the need for a more planetary, as opposed to global, model of art

Members of MoMA’s C-MAP Central and Eastern European group reflect on their research trip to Warsaw and Łódź, Poland and Berlin, Germany, which took place in late May / early June, 2016. Over the course of a week, the 14 travelers met with over 70 individuals, including artists, curators, dealers, and art historians; conducted two…

Rashid Rana discusses curatorial plans for the inaugural Lahore Biennale with Glenn D. Lowry, Director of MoMA.

Ana Janevski interviews the Croatian artist Mladen Stilinović in his apartment in Zagreb in March 2013 during the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group trip to Novi Sad, Belgrade, Ljubljana and Zagreb.

In the third and final part of this multi-section essay, art historian Ksenya Gurshtein addresses OHO Group’s work in the year 1970.

Professor Natalia Brizuela shares her thoughts on how to approach Latin American modern and contemporary artistic practices.

In late January 2016, a team of seven from The Museum of Modern Art’s C-MAP Asia Group traveled to India and Bangladesh. The itinerary began in New Delhi, where the India Art Fair was underway, continuing on to Goa and Bangalore (with side-trips to Baroda and Bombay by individual group members), and concluding in Dhaka…

Diana Campbell Betancourt shares her thoughts on Bangladesh’s art history being written out of the dominant narratives of South Asia on account of its once being East Pakistani.

Ksenia Nouril, C-MAP Fellow for Central and Eastern European Art at MoMA, researched Modern art and met with contemporary artists on a recent trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, an Imperial city that weaves classical traditions with contemporary sensibilities. In 1833, Russian Romantic poet Aleksandr Pushkin described St. Petersburg as a “northern prodigy” with “granite banks”…

Sabih Ahmad shares his thoughts on considering practices from the ground up and looking to lateral associations.