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📷 Shown here: Artist Man Ray Man Ray’s artistic beginnings can be traced to the Dada movement. Dada artists shared a profound disillusionment with traditional modes of art making and often turned instead to experimentation. In his photograms, Man Ray embraced the possibilities for irrational combinations and chance arrangements of objects. Around the same time, Man Ray’s experiments with photography carried him to the center of the emergent Surrealist movement in Paris. Working across mediums and historical movements, Man Ray was an integral part of The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition program early on. His photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, films, and even a chess set were included in landmark early exhibitions at the museum. ♟️ You’ll find Ray’s “Chess Set” and more works by the artist on display in our fifth-floor galleries! — Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). “Self-Portrait with Camera.” 1931. Gift of James Thrall Soby. © 2026 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

⌛ Last call for a summer time visit to MoMA! 👥 Get your friends together and come to the museum for the day. 👀 Swing by the Sculpture Garden to see Pierre Huyghe’s immersive, otherworldly installation “UUmwelt” on view through November 29, then grab an ice cream or a cool drink and enjoy the sunshine. 🎞️ After that, catch a movie from our “Immigrant Nation” series and get a first look at the newly installed “It’s Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection” outside the theater. ↗️ Then, head up to the third-floor to explore “Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa.” 🗓️ Don’t forget to stop by “Frida and Diego: The Last Dream,” before it closes on September 12! — Malick Sidibé. “Les Amis (Friends).” 1976. Gift of Jean Pigozzi. © 2026 Malick Sidibé. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

🌃 When the sun goes down, the projector lights up in our Sculpture Garden for screenings of genre classics, new restorations, and provocative documentaries. Don’t miss your last chance to enjoy cinema under the stars this summer at a Sculpture Garden screening of “Le Havre” on September 2 at 7:30 p.m. Inspired by French poetic realism of the 1930s, Aki Kaurismäki’s “Le Havre” takes us to the titular port city, where we meet Marcel Marx, an elderly shoeshiner and struggling writer named after a famous revolutionary socialist, and his wife Arletty. 🎟️ Get your tickets to “Le Havre” under the stars here 👉 mo.ma/4wXBFgR — Video from previous screening, featuring Our Latin Thing. 1972. UK/USA. Directed by Leon Gast. DCP. In English, Spanish; English subtitles. 102 min.

Lucas Samaras assembled this prickly piece out of household items including pins, scissors, a table knife, and a razor blade🍴 Look at (but don’t touch…) “Book 4” on our fourth floor now. 🎧 Download the free Bloomberg Connects app to your mobile device and select MoMA’s guide to listen to fresh perspectives on MoMA’s dynamic collection. — Lucas Samaras. [1] “Book 4.” 1962. Gift of Philip Johnson. © 2026 Lucas Samaras. [2] “Auto Polaroid.” 1969-71. Gift of Robert and Gayle Greenhill. © 2026 Lucas Samaras. [3] “Untitled.” 1960-61. Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund. © 2026 Lucas Samaras. [4] “Photo Transformation #6469.” 1976. Gift of the American Art Foundation. © 2026 Lucas Samaras.

🐕 How do dogs factor into Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara’s work? To celebrate International Dog Day, swipe through to see a pup with a guitar, a dog wearing a crown, and many more canine companions through Nara’s eyes 🐶 — Yoshitomo Nara. [1] “Spockie.” 2002. Katsko Suzuki Memorial Fund. © 2026 Yoshitomo Nara. [2] “Untitled ("No Fun"/Dog) from the series ‘Time of My Life’.” 1992–2000. Gift of David Teiger in honor of Agnes Gund. Gift of David Teiger in honor of Agnes Gund. [3] “Untitled (Dog with headphones) from the series ‘Time of My Life’.” 1992–2000. Gift of David Teiger in honor of Agnes Gund. © 2026 Yoshitomo Nara. [4] “Untitled (Dogs on Japanese character) from the series ‘Time of My Life.” 1992–2000. Gift of David Teiger in honor of Agnes Gund. © 2026 Yoshitomo Nara. [5] Untitled (Dog and bone) from the series ‘Time of My Life.’” 1992–2000. Gift of David Teiger in honor of Agnes Gund. © 2026 Yoshitomo Nara. [6] “Untitled (White Dog/"They don't make sense...") from the series ‘Time of My Life.’” 1992–2000. Gift of David Teiger in honor of Agnes Gund. © 2026 Yoshitomo Nara. [7] “Untitled (childlike dog in crude house) from the series Time of My Life’.” 1992–2000. Gift of David Teiger in honor of Agnes Gund. © 2026 Yoshitomo Nara. [8] “Untitled ("Red Roof Dog House") from the series ‘Time of My Life’.” 1992–2000. Gift of David Teiger in honor of Agnes Gund. © 2026 Yoshitomo Nara. [9] “Untitled (Dog with Japanese writing) from the series ‘Time of My Life’.” 1992–2000. Gift of David Teiger in honor of Agnes Gund. © 2026 Yoshitomo Nara. [10] “Untitled (Pup with guitar) from the series ‘Time of My Life’.” 1992–2000. Gift of David Teiger in honor of Agnes Gund. © 2026 Yoshitomo Nara.

“No. 1 (Untitled)” signals a shift in Mark Rothko’s practice. Here, Rothko applied thin washes of paint to canvas to create irregular forms that ebb and flow across the picture plane, marking Rothko’s transition from working in a Surrealist mode to focusing on the relationship between space, color, and scale in abstract paintings. Its large size and abstract style foreshadowed the artist’s signature Color Field paintings, which he began making a year after completing this work. 🖼️ Did you know that we have an entire gallery on our fourth floor devoted to Mark Rothko’s work? Plan your visit to explore more! — Mark Rothko. “No. 1 (Untitled).” 1948. Gift of the artist. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

How does an animator bring an illustration to life? Animator Kohana Wilson walks (or should we say, cartwheels?) through the tools, techniques, and principles behind classic paper animation, from sketch to finished animated sequence. 🖼️ Looking to see more hand drawn animation? Come visit the exhibition "It's Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection" on view at MoMA through Summer 2027. 📺 Head to the link to watch more from this tutorial and learn the fundamentals every animator should know 👉 mo.ma/4qrz11b

🎂 Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was born on this day in 1908 in France. In the early 1930s, Cartier-Bresson helped define photography’s creative potential by making magical images from fleeting moments of everyday life. After World War II, he joined Robert Capa and others in founding the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines while retaining control over their work. Cartier-Bresson soon earned wide acclaim for his photographs of newly independent India and Indonesia, China during the revolution, the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death, the United States during the postwar boom, and Europe as its old cultures confronted modern realities. 🔎 Look closely: Can you tell where this photo was taken? — Henri Cartier-Bresson. “The Museum of Modern Art, New York.” 1964. Gift of the artist. © 2026 Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris.

🌀 How did spirals set the art of Robert Smithson, Louise Bourgeois, and Marcel Duchamp in motion? 📖 Read “A Spiral Is a Moving Target” on #MoMAMagazine 👉 mo.ma/3SHd9T1

In the early 1990s, Turkish artist Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin grew fascinated with the cheap hotels that began appearing in Istanbul’s Laleli and Tarlabaşı neighborhoods. Following the end of the Soviet Union, these districts rapidly transformed under an influx of migrants, many from post-Soviet states and the Balkans. Alptekin created the artworks shown here based on photographs he took of the hotels’ signage. Referencing distant cities, the signs evoke a traveler’s longing for places left behind and dreams of destinations yet to be reached, while also recalling Istanbul’s extensive history. 🖼️ See these works on view now in our second-floor galleries. — Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin. “H-Fact: Hospitality/Hostility.” 2003-07. Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art and Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds. © 2026 Estate of the artist.