MoMA

In an exclusive video interview, the author of Bad Feminist talks about black bodies, freedom and the gaze in Kara Walker’s ‘Christ’s Entry into Journalism’

Whether pairing the two inspires consternation or praise depends largely on how we conceive of the purpose of the Museum itself

In further news: calls for removal of MoMA trustee; three arrested over gold toilet heist; researchers demand German museums open up colonial inventories

From the frieze archives: complete coverage ahead of New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s much-heralded reopening

New arrangements of artists from across the planet emphasize broad concepts over tidier organizing principles 

In further news: Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win Nobel prizes in literature; ‘censored’ Aichi Triennale reopened

From Brooklyn Academy of Music to the New Museum, art workers are increasingly agitating for better compensation and a seat at the table

Two exhibitions, at MoMA and David Zwirner, reveal how the impresario and his milieu defied the rationalism of 20th-century art

In further news: Kehinde Wiley launches artist residency; calls for MoMA to divest from private prison companies

In further news: MoMA to temporarily close; David Adjaye calls for museum championing black British culture

The ecstatic silliness of breaking the rules is evidenced in this show about the dancers, composers and artists who reshaped American art

In further news: MoMA reaches contract agreement with staff; man hospitalized after falling into Anish Kapoor installation

In times of political turmoil, art is a necessary rebuke to escapism

In further news: former Venice Biennale director calls biennial model ‘stale, if not dead’; photographer Shahidul Alam charged over ‘provocative comments’

German iconoclast Franz Erhard Walther on his life and influences: from expulsion from art school to a missed encounter with Marcel Duchamp

The union of museum employees want to draw attention to problematic contract changes for staff healthcare and overtime

Elsewhere: MoMaCha cafe says MoMA is not ‘truly famous’; selfie-fanatics create chaos at Kusama show, the latest in art world madness

On the occasion of her MoMA retrospective, six missives to the artist from her peers

From ‘Grant Wood fever’ to Adrian Piper’s homecoming at MoMA

In further news: Kenneth Frampton receives Golden Lion at Venice Architecture Biennale; and MoMA sues a cafe for copyright infringement