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We just published the first episode of our new series ART AND THE SENSES. We typically refer to the “visual arts,” but we experience art through all five senses. This series explores how artists help us understand and question our perceptions, one sense at a time: smell, hearing, taste—and that biggest taboo in a museum, touch.
In our first episode, we explore how the sense of smell unconsciously tells us what’s clean and safe versus what’s dirty and threatening. Why does it summon vivid associations and memories? We focus on Mike Kelley’s major installation "Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites," in which hanging clusters of stuffed animals playfully draw you in, conjuring childhood memories. But when the large “deodorizers,” shiny sculptures on the walls, spray a disinfectant on the candy-colored creatures, they become suddenly ominous. The smell fills the gallery and unlocks new questions: Why do these need to be cleaned? What’s wrong with them?
In this short documentary set in Cologne, Germany, and New York, an expert in scent production and dissemination, a curator, and conservation scientists take us behind the scenes to find out how the “Mike Kelley” scent gets made and what it uncovers about our expectations and memories outside of the museum. As curator Paulina Pobocha puts it, “We were talking about the scent component and whether we need warning labels, and I thought that was a little silly living in New York, where you’re bombarded with scents left and right and there are no warnings. It’s part of the world that we live in."
More episodes coming soon!
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We are saddened to hear of the passing of Richard Serra.
Serra studied form, including its mass, weight, ability to delineate space, and the ways it behaves under the pressures of gravity. As a result, his sculptures produce in us a heightened awareness of our surroundings. They are spaces to contemplate—to experience our “total senses.”
We are deeply grateful for his boundless creativity, his long friendship with us, and generosity to MoMA.
In honor of his life, we've compiled videos from our archive that feature the installation of his work and his discussion of it.
Watch here:
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For #wellnessmonth we created a Guided Color Meditation. Join meditation artist Dora Kamau for an eight-minute guided audio meditation that explores the therapeutic power of color. We’ll delve into color theory and the psychological and emotional effects colors can have on us. Composer James Pratley Watson, who created the soundscape for this meditation, aligned each color with its respective sonic “healing frequency,” in an attempt to infuse it with a deeper vibrational resonance. As Kamau leads you through this immersive meditation, allow the interplay of sound and color to guide you through a calming exploration of your own consciousness.
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For parents, educators, and anyone interested in the topic, we just put out a video on how art can be a tool for Social Emotional Learning (SEL) https://youtu.be/uzr9aPuFaaI How can art allow us to express who we are? MoMA Educators are joined by a licensed social worker and therapist to discuss how SEL can help us develop healthy identities, manage emotions, and make good decisions. We'd love to hear how you use these skills with your kids, students, and in your own lives.
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IN THE STUDIO is back with new art technique tutorials! In this episode, Helina Metaferia demonstrates collage techniques she uses in her work and admires in the work of Romare Bearden, Hannah Höch, and other artists from MoMA's Collection.
We're currently filming more episodes, so let us know in the comments if there are any particular techniques or mediums you'd like us to cover in the future.
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Lately there have been a litany of alarming headlines declaiming the new ways AI is expediting, unnerving, or sometimes comically failing our near-future world. At the heart of these are debates about ownership and privacy, labor and exploitation, reality and fakery. And with the recent breakthroughs of AI image and text generators, the public discussion has entered the art world.
For the latest episode of our How to See series, we spoke with artists and curators about how recent breakthroughs in AI and machine learning are putting new demands on artists to use, confront, and investigate the technology.
Check out our latest video, HOW TO SEE LIKE A MACHINE and join the rich conversation in the comments! https://youtu.be/G2XdZIC3AM8
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What does the future of Horror look like? Horror film experts give their take in our most recent video:
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Ever wonder what "Starry Night" would look like in LEGO form? Check out our latest video!
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"The Red Studio" wasn’t always red. That was the hypothesis that kicked off a two-year analysis of one of Henri Matisse’s most radical paintings. Learn more in our latest video!
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The Museum of Modern Art is home to over 200,000 artworks, comprised of painting and sculpture, drawings and prints, photography, architecture, design, media and performance.
Our goal is to introduce you to as many artists and artworks of our time as possible to make the case—as the Museum’s founders believed in 1929—that the art of our time rivals in its greatness to that of any previous era.
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