On Valentine’s Day 1970, David Mancuso began hosting regular, invitation-only dance parties at his home at 647 Broadway in New York City. Initially started as a way to make rent, these weekly ...

The reunion of Pettibon’s own text—which is often missing or covered over on Black Flag materials—with his drawings reveals the enigmatic, haunting quality of his work, something far more compelling ...

Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's landmark photobook An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion weaves together text drawn from field notes, folk song lyrics, newspaper excerpts, sociological ...

You mentioned the “Magritte man”: the iconic figure dressed in a suit and bowler hat who populates many of Magritte’s paintings. His bourgeois costume tends to be at odds with the circumstances in ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about polka dots lately. Whenever I walk down the hot, busy streets of New York or bathe in the subway’s air conditioning, I notice more people wearing the mesmerizing pattern ...

On most days at MoMA, an icon of American painting greets visitors from across the room. Many recognize it without knowing who painted it. It depicts a woman in a pale pink dress; her face is turned ...

Paola Antonelli joined The Museum of Modern Art in 1994 and is the Museum’s Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, as well as MoMA’s founding Director of Research and Development ...

Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills is a suite of seventy black-and-white photographs in which the artist posed in the guises of various generic female film characters, among them, ingénue, working ...

In this poster mockup referencing Leonardo da Vinci’s painting The Last Supper, Edelson collaged over the faces of Jesus and his disciples with those of her friends and idols, including artists Alma ...

Kare’s icons for the Macintosh System 1, Apple’s first computer-operating system, changed the communication interface between humans and machines, making it easier and friendlier in tone. To design ...

Felt-tip pen on fifteen sheets of paper (one with pencil and ballpoint pen), felt-tip pen on three postcards, and felt-tip pen on letterpress card ...