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The artist’s requirement that his works be viewed through a relaxed prism may be too much for a post-pandemic world

The exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, featuring 70 works made between 1960 and 1992, will trace the artist's development by focusing on key turning points in his career

The designer has employed natural processes and used materials from plants and shellfish for her exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art

The film, directed by her daughter Catherine, shows the roots of the collector's social activism

The photographs will go on view in the New York museum's permanent collection galleries in May, along with a selection of works by other artists and a clip from the classic 1971 film Shaft

The artist’s prints and assemblage works use symbolism to ascribe meaning to Black women’s place in the world

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

We look back at the biggest stories of the year

Banksy makes his debut at number 14 while dealer David Zwirner drops from first place to fifth

After a $450m expansion and radical rehang, has the 20th century’s emblematic museum found a place in the 21st?

After grand expansion, New York museum is already planning to swap out more than 700 works next spring

Among the most striking examples of the museum's more global and inclusive approach is a gallery with the theme War Within, War Without

From Betye Saar’s mysticism at MoMA to the first retrospective dedicated to conceptual photographer Duane Michals at the Morgan Library and Museum

Museum unveils experimental Studio for live art and invites public participation in the Creativity Lab

Curators and dealers perceive a “new metabolism” in the permanent collection galleries

Demonstrators blocked the museum’s entrance and sat in the street as they demanded the removal of Steven Tananbaum — a financier whose company owns $2.5bn in Puerto Rican debt — from its board of trustees

We speak to two of the museum's curators leading the expansion and our New York team sit down to discuss the highs and lows of the new space. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

As the museum opens an ambitious $450m expansion, activists are demanding that “vulture fund” investor Steven Tananbaum be taken off the board—but he is not the only trustee with financial interests in the island

Before the public opening, we sought out some highlights from the rehang

How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening

Installations range from Haim Steinbach’s phrases and slogans to Yoko Ono’s blue sky

The museum says the gift will play an important role in the reconfiguration of its permanent collection

Kate Fowle, known as a champion of artists and curatorial innovation, succeeds Klaus Biesenbach

By coincidence, both pictures ended up at New York’s MoMA, which is now planning a redisplay

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Damien Hirst's placemat portraits to Nari Ward's recycled shoelace installation