Skip to content

post

notes on art in a global context

MoMA
  • Regions
    • See all regions
    • Africa
      • Central Africa
      • Eastern Africa
      • Northern Africa
      • Southern Africa
      • Western Africa
    • Asia
      • East Asia
      • South Asia
      • Southeast Asia
      • West Asia
      • Central Asia
    • Central & Eastern Europe
    • The Americas
  • Themes
    • See all themes
    • Pedagogies
    • One Work, Many Voices
    • A Global Museum
    • New York Crossings
    • Contemporary Crisis and Dissent
    • Art and the Political
    • Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks
    • Abstraction
    • Art and Gender
    • Bridging the Sacred
  • About

Southeast Asia | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Soviet Architectural Presence in Southeast Asia

Da Hyung Jeong proposes a reading of Soviet-built structures in the region. He attempts to reveal the intentions behind their construction through an analysis of Soviet-era cultural criticism, socioeconomic studies, and encyclopedia entries.

Da Hyung Jeong

The Americas | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Cumbre Aconcagua. Part I: Digna Rabia and Moral Hazard

This conference series, organized by the Cisneros Institute, looks at the history of water management in the Americas through the interdisciplinary work of artists, theorists, historians, and local communities.

Camila Marambio, Carolina Caycedo and Ignacio Valero

Eastern Africa | One Work, Many Voices

Michael Armitage and the Ghosts of Past Picturing

The complicated history of painting is taken up by British-Kenyan artist Michael Armitage, whose work respond to contemporary issues and events in Kenya through the ghosts of past picturing.

Gabriella Nugent

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

Claudio Perna: The Son of the Immigrant


Beginning with the Autocurriculum, this essay examines Claudio Perna’s conceptual fixation on the fluid boundaries between documentation, artistic expression, and self-representation.

Silvia Benedetti

Southeast Asia | Art and Gender

Horizons of queerness, auspicious sociality

Through analyses of works by David Medalla, Nick Deocampo, and Yason Banal, art historian and curator Carlos Quijon, Jr. looks beyond categorical genres of queerness, proposing instead irreducible, methodological modes that embrace its felicitous potential.

Carlos Quijon, Jr.

Western Africa | A Global Museum

Thinking and re-thinking institutions: an interview with Clémentine Deliss and Azu Nwagbogu

In this short virtual interview, C-MAP Fellow Nancy Dantas discusses Generator—a conceptual and infrastructural proposal, hinged on restitution—envisioned by curators Azu Nwagbogu and Clémentine Déliss as part of their long-term program for the AAF, Lagos.

Nancy Dantas, Clémentine Deliss and Azu Nwagbogu

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

The Right to Appear: Alejandro Paz Navas’s The Bodyguard (2002) and the Guatemalan Postwar Art Scene

Alejandro Paz Navas’s The Bodyguard is a testament to a generation of artists who mobilized conceptual performances in public spaces to respond to the socio-economic changes in postwar Guatemala.

Madeline Murphy Turner

Southeast Asia | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

True Jesters

In an effort to consider the variegated impacts of COVID-19, post has interviewed curators and directors from vital institutions around the world about how the pandemic has affected their conceptions and practices of programming, civic engagement, and care.

Wong Binghao, Zoe Butt and Sean Anderson

Central & Eastern Europe

Screening Series Part 3: From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures

Artists reflect on the environmental damage caused by socialist modernization and capitalist industrialization.

Inga Lāce and Lukas Brasiskis

Central & Eastern Europe

Screening Series Part 2: From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures

Artists reflect on the intersections between historic Soviet architecture and newly built infrastructures.

Inga Lāce and Lukas Brasiskis

Southern Africa | A Global Museum

Interview with Storm Janse van Rensburg

In an effort to consider the variegated impacts of COVID-19—a virus with a global reach—we interviewed curators and directors from institutions around the world about how the pandemic has affected their institutions.

Nene Aissatou Diallo and Storm Janse van Rensburg

thumbnail

Central & Eastern Europe

Screening Series: From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures

Artists reflect upon the role infrastructures of energy play in implementation of (geo)politics and emphasize the effects that exerts on the environment.

Lukas Brasiskis and Inga Lāce

Posts navigation

Show More Articles
Show Previous Articles

post

notes on art in a global context

post is The Museum of Modern Art’s online resource devoted to art and the history of modernism in a global context. It is the public face of Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), a cross-departmental, internal research program at MoMA that fosters the multiyear study of art histories outside North America and Western Europe.

  • Twitter
Loading
MoMA
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions

© 2026 The Museum of Modern Art

Top