MADAME
Vaginal Davis Opens Up
September 26, 2025
Ahead of her MoMA PS1 retrospective, the self-described Blacktress, literary figurine, and spokesmodel tells Cynthia Carr how she’s taking on the world.
ANDY
“Warhol Wanted to Be a Girl”: Klaus Biesenbach, in Conversation With Wayne Koestenbaum
July 10, 2024
To mark the opening of “Andy Warhol: Velvet Rage and Beauty” at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the curator talked to the Warhol biographer about the pop icon’s varied and provocative conceptions of male beauty.
IN CONVERSATION
Sedrick Chisom Shows Kara Walker His Apocalyptic Vision
May 1, 2024
Ahead of his debut solo show, the painter got together with friend and mentor Kara Walker to discuss everything from dystopia to utopia and Lacan to Freud.
IN STUDIO
Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson on Cyborgs, Filler, and Film-Snobs
April 26, 2024
“When I started doing all of this work, it was rejected and not paid attention to,” says the 83-year-old artist, whose show “Anti-Aging” is currently on view at Bridget Donahue.
IN CONVERSATION
Sayre Gomez and Jonas Wood On Poker, Parenthood, and Paleontology
March 4, 2024
“My work’s actually gotten darker since having kids because it just makes me think about more shit,” Gomez explained. “They’re like, this catastrophic lens.”
ART
Wolfgang Tillmans and Douglas Stuart on Control and Queer Liberation
September 13, 2022
“You can show two men killing each other at three in the afternoon in any country in the world on public television, but you can’t show two men kissing each other.”
Adam Pendleton and Venus Williams on When Passion Becomes Profession
June 28, 2021
In honor of his upcoming MoMA show, the artist spoke to the tennis legend about the power of words, the promise of Black Lives Matter, and why it doesn’t feel like work if it’s a passion.
MIT Professor Neri Oxman Is As Otherworldly As Her Creations
April 15, 2020
From space honey to breathing buildings, the architect and designer has a resonant vision for the future.
The New “Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures” Exhibit Speaks to Us
March 16, 2020
The walls at MoMA might not talk, but these photos sure do.
The MoMA Armory Party: Sculptures, Tequila, and a Rhinestone Cowboy
March 6, 2020
The MoMA’s annual Armory Party—part art show, part concert, part Lynchian meta-commentary–was in full swing in the dead of night with Orville Peck.
Eight spring art shows we can’t wait to see
March 23, 2018
Find out which exhibitions we’re most excited to see this spring.
The radically reworked perceptions of multimedia artist Dan Graham
December 28, 2017
No other American artist has deconstructed and reconstructed the many frames of perception quite as radically as the legendary New York multimedia maestro, pop-culture enthusiast, and all-around mad genius.
The unknown history of platform shoes
October 3, 2017
Throughout history, platform soles have been on the rise, and a new fashion exhibition at the MoMA in New York charts their ascent.