Two of Mexico’s most beloved icons of 20th-century art, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, portrayed themselves in their work. Kahlo famously created many intimate self-portraits, while Rivera occasionally ...

These works are part of the Museum's Provenance Research Project, which examines the ownership history of objects in our collection.

Director, Glenn Lowry: In her earlier performance, Rhythm 0, Abramović surrendered complete control to her audience as she stood impassively, next to a table with objects that they could use on her as ...

GLENN LOWRY: To explore the concept of deriving energy from her audience, Abramović and her partner, Ulay, performed Relation in Time. MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ: We wanted to start this piece without public.

Associated art terms include Dada and Readymade.

In the final decades of his life, Matisse invented a new form of art, the cut-out. Working with scissors and sheets of gouache-painted paper, he cut various shapes—from the organic to the ...

Dorothea Lange captures the human condition through words and pictures.