The Museum of Modern Art

Alexander Calder conceived of sculpture as an experiment in space and motion. After a 1930 visit to the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian's Paris studio, Calder began to develop the kind of work for which he would become best known: the mobile—an abstract sculpture that moves—so named by Calder’s friend Marcel Duchamp. With this new art form came a new set of possibilities for what a sculpture might be. Rejecting the traditional understanding of sculpture as grounded, static, and dense, Calder made way for a consideration of volume, motion, and space. Ranging from delicate, intimate, figurative objects in wood and wire, to hanging sculptures that move, to monumentally scaled abstract works in steel and aluminum, Calder’s art suggests the elemental systems that animate life itself. 🕷️ Plan your visit! "Spider" and more works by Calder are on view now in our fifth-floor galleries. — Alexander Calder. "Spider." 1939. Gift of the artist. © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Looking for family-friendly weekend plans? Celebrate the power of imagining a better world as a community with short films that explore what it means to support one another, show up in tough moments, and make a difference. Between the films, join a discussion about what you saw, then try suggested follow-up activities in the Museum’s galleries. 🗣️ Filmmaker Liam LoPinto will discuss the making of the film "Wolf and Cub" in a special Q&A! 🎥 Family Films: Caring Community ⏰ Sat, Jan 17, 2:00–3:00 p.m. 📍 MoMA, Education Center, Mezzanine 🎟️ Learn more and get tickets → mo.ma/caringcommunity — Still from "Wolf and Cub." 2021. USA. A film by Marvin Bynoe. Courtesy Liam LoPinto.

Learn about how Yoko Ono challenged the rules of art ☝️ In Ono’s "Painting to Be Stepped On,” a piece of canvas laid on the floor invites viewers to walk on the artwork itself. The artist first presented the work in New York in 1961, placing a cut piece of canvas beside a card that read, in handwritten text, A WORK TO BE STEPPED ON. For Ono, the work’s physical existence was secondary to the potential activities she anticipated it generating in viewers’ minds. 👣 A version of “Painting to Be Stepped On” is on view now in our collection galleries through February 4! Plan your visit now to step on it yourself. 📺 Hear more from Ono, John Lennon, curators, conservators, artists, and museum educators as they explore the taboo of touch in the art museum in the latest installment of our YouTube series exploring art and the senses → mo.ma/touchyoutube

How do artists from around the world think about community? From Kathmandu to New Orleans, Johannesburg to Mexico City, the creative practitioners featured in “New Photography 2025” offer slowness, persistence, and care as an antidote to the viral, profit-driven speed of contemporary image consumption, metadata technologies, and artificial intelligence. 📣 Last chance! “New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging” closes on January 17. 📖 Live now on #MoMAMagazine, read more from the artists in the exhibition in their own words → mo.ma/newphotomagazine — [1] Sandra Blow. “5tos.” 2020. Latin American and Caribbean Fund. © 2026 Sandra Blow. [2] Installation view of Lindokuhle Sobekwa. “uMthimkhulu IV.” 2025. Courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery. Photo: Robert Gerhardt. [3] Gabrielle Garcia Steib. “Nueva Orleans es la frontera espiritual con el Caribe (New Orleans Is the Spiritual Border to the Caribbean) (detail).” 2020–25. Courtesy the artist. [4] Lebohang Kganye. Installation view of “Untouched by the ancient caress of time” and “Her voice muffled by the soil from Staging Memories.” 2022. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Robert Gerhardt. [5] “Members of the Women's Security Pressure Group at a rally.” Sushila Shrestha Collection. Kathmandu, Nepal, 1993. From Nepal Picture Library. “The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project.” 2025. Courtesy Nepal Picture Library.

Experience a century of cinema, starting today! 🎥 To Save and Project, MoMA’s annual festival dedicated to celebrating newly preserved and restored films from archives, studios, distributors, foundations, and independent filmmakers from around the world, returns for its 22nd edition now through February 2. The festival opens with the New York premiere of MoMA’s new restoration of Russ Meyer’s “Vixen!” (1968), presented by Erica Gavin and Peggy Ahwesh, and closes with previously unseen Andy Warhol films from the 1960s. Many of the premieres in the festival will be receiving their first US screening since their original release; others will be shown in meticulously restored versions; and a few will even be publicly screened for the first time ever in New York. 🎟️ Reserve tickets and learn more → mo.ma/tsap26 — 🎞️ [1] “Vixen!” 1968. USA. Directed by Russ Meyer. Courtesy Severin Films. [2] “Bashu Gharibeh Kouchak (Bashu, the Little Stranger).” 1986. Iran. Directed by Bahram Beyzaie. Courtesy mk2. [3] “Les grandes répétitions: Cecil Taylor à Paris (Great Rehearsals: Cecil Taylor in Paris).” 1968. France. Directed by Gérard Patris. Courtesy the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA). [4] “Lumière, Le Cinéma!” 2025. France. Directed by Thierry Frémaux. Courtesy Janus Films.

Spend a moment pondering a masterpiece 🤔 Every Friday night, MoMA is free for all New York State residents during UNIQLO Friday Nights. Enjoy drop-in drawing sessions, film screenings, special programming and more in our galleries. New York state residents get in free after 5:30 p.m. courtesy of UNIQLO, but everyone can enjoy an evening at the Museum—we’re open until 8:30 p.m. every Friday. 🎟️ Learn more and get tickets → mo.ma/fridaynights UNIQLO is MoMA’s partner of #ArtForAll. — 📷 @the.style.professor (Instagram). Robert Motherwell. “Personage, with Yellow Ochre and White.” 1947. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Kootz.

⏰ Only one month left to visit “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective” at MoMA! In Asawa’s expansive, multidisciplinary practice, forms and concepts recur in time and unfurl across different mediums and disciplines, connected by the artist’s lifelong investigations of negative space and transparency. “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective” features more than 300 artworks, charting Asawa’s lifetime of artistic experimentation. 🎟️ Plan your visit before the exhibition closes on February 7 → mo.ma/asawa This exhibition is sponsored by UNIQLO, MoMA's partner of #ArtforAll. — 🖼️ Installation view of “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective” on view at The Museum of Modern Art from October 19, 2025, through February 7, 2026. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Digital Image © 2025 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo by Jonathan Dorado. All artwork © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., Courtesy David Zwirner.

Did you know that this is the only painting in which artist Henri Matisse depicted the exterior of his Issy studio? “The Blue Window” was made in Henri and Amélie Matisse’s second-floor bedroom in their house on the adjoining lot—and conservation work shows that Matisse reworked the canvas several times before settling on the final version. “You can see in particular some interesting paint techniques in the cloud form, in the upper center,” says Paintings Conservator Michael Duffy. “He scraped down various layers of paint, revealing pink and blue underneath, and also some green, resulting in this kind of opalescent color…you can see around some of the shapes some incised lines, where he took the end of a brush, or a sharp instrument and actually carved into the paint.” 🎧 Hear more from Duffy and learn about the story behind this painting! Download the free Bloomberg Connects app to your mobile device and select MoMA’s guide. 🖼️ See this painting and more works by Matisse on view now in our fifth-floor galleries. — Henri Matisse. “The Blue Window.” Issy-les-Moulineaux, summer 1913. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund. © 2026 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

How did a group of artists turn everyday objects and activities into art? Fluxus was a fluid, international body of artists that emerged in the early 1960s with the aim of reimagining the forms art takes. Collaboration was at the heart of the group's work, yielding a diverse range of collective experiments. Artists Alison Knowles and Takako Saito both played foundational roles in Fluxus. Their artistic practices shared many impulses: the creation of works that don’t fit within traditional artistic categories; the transformation of quotidian objects and actions; the invitation to viewers to animate an artwork through interaction; and the embrace of play as a vehicle for discovery. At the same time, the distinctiveness of each artist’s practice underscores the delicate balance between the individual and the group that defined the Fluxus collective. 📖 Read a tribute to artists Knowles and Saito, who turned everyday objects and activities into art, on #MoMAMagazine → mo.ma/3N1Zlzr — [1] Alison Knowles. "Music by Alison," performed during "Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts." New York, May 23, 1964. The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift. © 2025 Alison Knowles. [2] Alison Knowles. "Ay-O Performs The Identical Lunch." 1969, realized 1973. The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift. © 2025 Alison Knowles. [3] George Maciunas. "Portrait of Takako Saito." c. 1964, printed 1992. The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift. © 2025 George Maciunas. [4] Various artists with Ay-O, George Brecht, Congo (a Chimpanzee), Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, György Sándor Ligeti, Jackson Mac Low, Benjamin Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young. "Fluxus 1." 1964. The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift. © Multiple artists.

New year, new adventures 🚀 Before school is back in session, bring the family to find new inspiration at MoMA. Explore our galleries using family and kids guides, enjoy hot cocoa in our Winter Garden, participate in hands-on activities in the Heyman Family Art Lab, and so much more. 🎟️ Kids 16 and under always get in free! 🔗 Explore itineraries and plan your visit → moma.org/visit — 📷 @krisbones1 (Instagram). Installation view of the exhibition “Sasha Stiles: A LIVING POEM,” September 10, 2025–May 1, 2026. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In collaboration with MoMA’s partner Hyundai Card, works presented on the Hyundai Card Digital Wall are now simultaneously displayed in Seoul.