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Museum of Modern Art

Modern Art and Ideas

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The Museum of Modern Art provides this educators' guide to Dada and Surrealism. Featuring the works of such artists as Jean Arp, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, and Meret Oppenheim among others, the guide is ideal for art history and...
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Mo Ma: Dali: Painting and Film

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art explores the relationship between Salvador Dali's art and the role cinema played in his works. Click on "navigate" in the right upper corner to work your way through.
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Mo Ma: Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

For Students 9th - 10th
A unique look at the work of a master painter. The focus of this site is on Vincent Van Gogh and his fascination with nature, particularly at night. Loads of wonderful information and colorful images in a graphically appealing site.
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Mo Ma: Georges Seurat: The Drawings

For Students 9th - 10th
A full-featured exhibition of the drawings of nineteenth-century French master Georges Seurat. Includes upclose looks at the artist's sketchbooks-rare primary source documents-and details about his subject choices and working methods....
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Mo Ma: Joan Miro: Painting and Anti Painting 1927 1937

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Museum of Modern Art's online exhibition of the works of artist Joan Miro between 1927 and 1937. Shows the use of acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, and the use of collage and ready made materials that Miro is known for.
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Mo Ma: Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years

For Students 9th - 10th
The Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibit "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years", a survey of tha last forty years of the American sculptors production including three new monumental pieces.
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Mo Ma: Henri Cartier Bresson: The Modern Century

For Students 9th - 10th
Museum-mounted exhibition of the work of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose photographs often document significant episodes in twentieth-century history, such as pre- and postwar Europe, the death of Gandhi, and the rise of...
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Mo Ma: Destination Modern Art

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Museum of Modern Art invites young readers interactively learn about Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, and Umberto Boccioni using sound, simple language, and engaging animations.
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Mo Ma: Picasso: Themes and Variations

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive analysis of Picasso as printmaker explains the printmaking techniques that he put to inventive use over his long career. See close-up comparisons of his works on paper along a number of key thematic and subject-matter...
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Mo Ma: Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity

For Students 9th - 10th
Rich-media exhibition of Bauhaus architecture and design and the people, such as Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, who embodied the school's modernist aesthetics and interests.
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Mo Ma: Contemporary Japanese Textiles

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Textiles are among the oldest of art forms and Japan is still producing ingenious and dynamic textiles today. You can see current transparent, dyed, reflective, printed, sculpted, and layered textiles here. Under artist biographies, you...
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Mo Ma: Alfred Hitchcock

For Students 9th - 10th
MOMO presents us with a great overview of Hitchcock's life and works. Read a chronology of his career by decades, get a list of all his feature films with links to selected film stills, read his lecture presented at Columbia University...
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Mo Ma: Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, & Things

For Students 9th - 10th
Sculptor and printmaker, she is among the most significant artists of her generation. This exhibition showcases the scope of Smith through such topics as anatomy, self-portraiture, nature, and female iconography.
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Mo Ma: Contemporary Voices

For Students 9th - 10th
When the Museum of Modern Art acquired a collection of contemporary works from UBS, a financial services firm, it developed an exhibition to show off its new treasures. At this technologically engaging site, full of artist interviews and...
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Mo Ma: Tall Buildings

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will love to play around in this site! As soon as you click on Enter, the site takes control of your screen with an imposing array of tall building shadows. Some of the buildings have been built, some are under consideration....
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Mo Ma: Manuel Alvarez Bravo

For Students 9th - 10th
The Museum of Modern Art offers a nice biography and a few images of this great Mexican photographer.
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Mo Ma: Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the great architects of the twentieth century, this Finnish architect, designer, and town planner is featured by MOMA.
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Mo Ma: Bonnard

For Students 9th - 10th
A great review of this painters life and works.
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Mo Ma: The Artists of Brucke

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an exhibit on the German expressionist artists, including Kirchner, Mueller, Pechstein, Heckel, Nolde, and Schmidt-Rottluff.
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Mo Ma: Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro (1865 85)

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition brings together the work of two masters of the early modern period, Cezanne and Pissarro. Compares and contrasts their styles, choices of subject, techniques, and development, with interesting thematic pathways into the...
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Mo Ma: Art of Odilon Redon

For Students 9th - 10th
MOMA's presents Redon's work from charcoal noirs, luminous pastels, canvases, and lithographs. Excellent imagery, both visually and literally with descriptions of his work.
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Mo Ma: Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 Now

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition traces the creation of paper and mixed-media works by artists working in various European art centers along six different thematic pathways, such as popular culture, idea-driven conceptual art, protest, and...
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Mo Ma: Destination Modern Art

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Take a virtual tour of the Museum of Modern Art from a child's perspective. There are lots of stops along the way where one can try a game, explore a piece of art, and learn about the artists.
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Mo Ma: Exhibition History

For Students 9th - 10th
A searchable database of all of the exhibitions that have been held at The Museum of Modern Art since 1929. There are thousands and the database is continuously updated.