The Museum of Modern Art

Ruth Asawa made art everyday, exploring endless possibilities with materials like paper and wire. “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective” celebrates the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and form, bringing together 300 works including wire sculptures, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, and prints. 📣 Opens October 19! 🎟️ See the exhibition first—become a member today and enjoy exclusive Member Previews, October 16–18. This exhibition is sponsored by UNIQLO, MoMA's partner of #ArtforAll.

“One of the obsessions of our work is to see architecture as a living entity.”—Lake Verea. In 2019, artists Lake Verea reinterpreted the iconic Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes building in Mexico City through life-sized photographs. The building, started before the Mexican Revolution and finished in 1934 by architect Federico Mariscal, mixes different styles, including Art Deco. Its details include Aztec, Mayan, Greek, and other designs that reflect Mexico’s history and culture, which still influence its politics, art, and architecture today. 📸 On view now! “New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging” showcases 13 artists and collectives from four cities including Kathmandu, New Orleans, Johannesburg, and Mexico City.  🎟️ Plan your visit → mo.ma/newphotography2025 — 🖼️ Lake Verea (Carla Verea Hernández and Francisca Rivero-Lake). “Hojas de Metal (Metal Leaves).” 2019. Latin American and Caribbean Fund. © 2025 Lake Verea, Francisca Rivero-Lake & Carla Verea Hernández

📣 “Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream” opens at MoMA on November 10! Driven by a profound concern for racial and social justice, the artist Wifredo Lam reimagined modern art with profound poetic and political significance. “Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream” features over 130 rarely seen works including paintings, works on paper, prints, illustrated books, and ceramics, and marks the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States featuring the artist’s full career. 🎟️ Learn more → mo.ma/lam 👀 See the exhibition before it opens to the public—become a member today and enjoy exclusive Member Previews, November 7–9. — 🖼️ Wifredo Lam. “Harpe astrale (Astral Harp).” 1944. Private collection. © Wifredo Lam Estate, Adagp, Paris / ARS, New York 2025

Hey batter, batter! ⚾️ In the early days of her practice, artist Howardena Pindell was working out of a loft on Seventh Avenue and 28th Street—a space that doubled as her studio. At the time, she was deep into her numbering pieces, but the repetitive focus on tiny dots left her craving something more dynamic. Someone suggested she buy a TV to break up the visual monotony, and the TV screen quickly evolved into a kind of canvas. Pindell bought clear acetate and used pen and ink to draw numbers and vectors on it. When the TV was turned on, the static would attach the acetate to the screen. Pindell then used a camera on a tripod to capture the layered interaction between her marks and the live feed. These works became part of her “Video Drawing” series—a fusion of analog media and digital motion. — 🖼️ Howardena Pindell. “Video Drawing: Baseball.” August 1975. Purchase. © 2025 Howardena Pindell

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Did you know that the artist who made this painting once owned Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”? Lucie Cousturier, the painter behind “Woman Reading,” was an accomplished writer by the mid-1900s. She authored key early texts on fellow artists and peers involved in the Neo-Impressionist movement, including Seurat and Paul Signac. In addition to her literary contributions, she had a distinguished exhibition record and was also a serious collector in her own right. She and her husband owned a major collection of Neo-Impressionist paintings, including Seurat’s iconic “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”—a wedding gift from her father in 1900. Cousturier’s “Woman Reading” now hangs at MoMA between works by two of her closest peers, Signac and Seurat, placing her right back into the artistic conversation she helped shape. See “Woman Reading” on view now in our fifth floor galleries. — 🖼️ [1] Lucie Cousturier. “Woman Reading.” 1907. Gift of the E. & A. Silberman Galleries [2] Georges-Pierre Seurat. “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” 1884-86. Color collotype, printed c. 1940. Gift of Richard Benson

What does it mean to be human in the age of artificial intelligence? Since 2018, artist and poet Sasha Stiles has explored this question through a collaboration with her AI alter ego, Technelegy. Their latest experiment, “A LIVING POEM,” is an infinite text powered by human imagination and computer algorithms. Inspired by text-based art from the Museum’s collection, the poem rewrites itself every hour using a custom AI model with voice, sound, and visuals. One of the fonts used in the work is “Cursive Binary,” a fusion of the artist’s handwriting with the zeros and ones of binary code—a poetic metaphor for humanity’s evolving relationship with technology. In collaboration with MoMA’s partner Hyundai Card, works presented on the Hyundai Card Digital Wall at MoMA are now also simultaneously displayed in Seoul. Both locations now feature Stiles’s “A LIVING POEM,” on view through next spring.    Swipe to see Stiles’s 25-foot display on view at MoMA ↔️ and at Hyundai Card in Seoul. — [1] Installation view of the exhibition “Sasha Stiles: A LIVING POEM,” September 10, 2025–May 1, 2026. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2025 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo by Jonathan Dorado. [2] Installation view of “Sasha Stiles: A LIVING POEM” on view at Hyundai Card in Seoul. Photo by Byeongchul Jeon.

On this day in 1930, artist Faith Ringgold was born 🎂 Born and raised in Harlem, Ringgold dedicated her life to centering the experiences of Black women within an art world that often excluded them. Her early “Super Realist” paintings reflected the political urgency of the 1960s, while also reclaiming artistic traditions like Cubism, originally inspired by African art. Ringgold’s passion for storytelling translated into later work as a children’s book writer and illustrator. Her book “Tar Beach,” published in 1991, narrates the story of a young girl dreaming of flying over the George Washington Bridge as she stargazes on the rooftop of her building in Harlem—a powerful meditation on a young girl’s ability and right to dream and hope. “Tar Beach Woodcut” and the book were inspired by Ringgold’s story quilt “Woman on a Bridge #1 of 5: Tar Beach.” Ringgold saw the women in this series of artworks as “actually flying; they are just free, totally.” — Faith Ringgold. “Tar Beach Woodcut.” 1993. John B. Turner Fund. © 2025 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

How do M&Ms make their way into a museum’s collection? Before they made it to your candy jar, M&M’s were making history—literally. Here's how... Legend has it that Forrest Mars, Sr.—the first “M” in M&M’s—got the idea for the candy in the 1930s, during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating small chocolates with a hard, sugary coating that prevented the candies from melting. Upon returning to the US, Mars made his own chocolate pellets and brought the idea to the president of Hershey Chocolate Corporation, William F. R. Murrie—the second “M.” A year later, Mars patented the design, and the first M&Ms went on sale. In 1981, M&M’s even went to outer space when space-shuttle astronauts brought the candies with them on their flight. 🍫 Thoughtfully engineered for durability, portability, and mass appeal, M&M’s are a sweet example of how good design meets everyday function. Discover more in “Pirouette: Turning Points in Design,” on view at MoMA through November 15. — Forrest Mars. “M&Ms.” late 1930s. Gift of the manufacturer

See art through a new lens! Join MoMA’s free 4-week newsletter course and learn about iconic works of modern art—making connections to your life, inspiring your creativity, and helping your trivia game. Here’s what you need to know:  🗓 Starts October 15, 2025 💌 Just 15 minutes a week, sent directly to your inbox  🧠 Learn from MoMA experts and artists 🎨 Try weekly creative prompts 📜 Earn a certificate 📧 Sign up for the course now → mo.ma/4pLYEsJ