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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.”

Physichromie 21 by Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez is another highlight of the Cisneros’ gift to the Museum. Anne Umland, traces this work back to the artist’s studio in Paris in the 1960s and explores the ways Cruz-Diez’s Physichromie series is dependent on active viewer participation and contingencies of lighting.

In 1973, critic and theorist Juan Acha published the text Por una nueva problemática artística en Latinoamérica in Artes Visuales. The critical essay is available here in the original Spanish as well as translated into English for the first time.

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.

Samantha Friedman comments on the importance of the work in the development of Brazilian modern art.

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

Acha established himself as a vigorous critical voice in Peru at a time when Conceptualist artistic approaches and political events such as the riots and military coup of 1968 strongly inflected the local art scene.

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.

Twenty images of artworks and related materials by the Slovene group OHO from the MoMA Archives have been digitized and made accessible here.

In 2016, The Museum of Modern Art received a major gift from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, which added more than 100 works of modern art by major artists from Latin America to the Museum’s collection and established the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America.

The Museum of Modern Art has just received what is arguably one of the most transformative donations in its history: more than one hundred modern works produced by thirty-seven Latin American masters, which have entered the collection through the generosity of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. This theme was developed to share information about…