GLENN LOWRY: One of the influences on Abramović’s work is Tibetan Buddhism. In Nude with Skeleton, Abramović evokes a traditional exercise undertaken by Tibetan monks during which they sleep alongside ...

Leah Dickerman: These "White Paintings" may not be prepossessing, but they're among the most radical statements about painting made in the middle of the 20th century. They are blank canvases stretched ...

MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ: When we was Australian desert and living with the Aborigines, we was looking to this report of astronauts who said that only construction who can be seen from moon, human-made, is ...

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Jerry Gorovoy: I’m Jerry Gorovoy. This hanging bronze figure is called the Arch of Hysteria. Louise had actually been in psychoanalysis from 1951 all the way up until the 1980s. At the beginning of ...

One morning in the summer of 1952, Matisse told his studio assistant and secretary Lydia Delectorskaya that “he wanted to see divers,” so they set out to a favorite pool in Cannes. Suffering under the ...

Der Blaue Reiter was formed in 1911 in Munich as a loose association of painters led by Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. They shared an interest in abstracted forms and prismatic colors, which, they ...

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Immerse yourself in ideas and see your world in new ways through art. In MoMA’s free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera, you will hear directly from artists and designers, look closely at ...

Curator, T. Lax: Before you is a zine made by the artist, Kandiss Williams, who runs Cassandra Press in Los Angeles. It's a reprint of the essay "Venus in Two Acts" written by cultural historian ...

Expressionists looked outside mainstream European society for inspiration, from far-flung tribal societies in Africa and the South Pacific to the peasantry and folk art traditions closer to home.

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