The Museum of Modern Art

📣 “Stephen Prina: A Lick and a Promise,” the first in-depth survey to focus on the artist’s long engagement with music and performance, continues with more performances this month at MoMA! Tickets are now available for… 🎶 “String Quartet for Six Players” (1976) and “The Way He Always Wanted It XI” (2013) ⏰ Sat, Oct 4, and Sun, Oct 5, 8:00 p.m. ➡️ Merging Mozart with Fluxus, this program pairs two works that underscore Prina’s recombinant approach to art and his playful approach to architectural space. Featuring Either/Or ensemble. 🎶 “An Evening of 19th- and 20th-Century Piano Music” (1982–85) ⏰ Thu, Oct 16, and Sat, Oct 18, 7:00 p.m. ➡️ In this piano duet constructed from excerpts from the nine symphonies of Ludwig von Beethoven, Prina asks how Western classical music can be reinvigorated. Featuring acclaimed pianists Ursula Oppens and Adam Tendler. 🎶 “Three Folk Songs in Search of a Fanfare—Palate Cleanser” (2003) ⏰ Sat, Oct 25, 1:00 p.m. (rain date Sun, Oct 26) ➡️ Prina’s daylong composition for brass octet, timpani, guitar, and voice—incorporating music associated with Pete Seeger, Richie Havens, Odetta, and Charles Ives—will be performed in MoMA’s Sculpture Garden. Featuring TILT Brass. Learn more and book tickets now → mo.ma/prina — 📷 Stephen Prina. “String Quartet for Six Players.” 1976. Performed at JUBG, December 2023. Photo: Alexander Eckhardt. © Stephen Prina. Courtesy the artist, JUBG, Cologne & Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.

Light doesn’t just reveal art—sometimes, it is the art. Artist Dan Flavin used commercially available fluorescent light tubes as a way to bring color and light into three dimensions. For this work, he placed two tubes perpendicular to one another in a corner—a space not typically used to display art. Flavin didn’t consider his light works to be sculptures, instead calling them “situations” due to the relationship between the physical object and its illuminated surroundings. “One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do,” Flavin said. “And it is…as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.” 💡 See this artwork on view in our fourth floor galleries. — Dan Flavin. “untitled.” 1969. Gift of Philip Johnson. © 2025 Estate of Dan Flavin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“For the past 10 years I have been doing projects to better understand what connects us with ourselves and others, and as a consequence what disconnects us, too.” — Tania Franco Klein To create her series “Subject Studies: Chapter 1,” Klein asked over 100 individuals of different ethnicities and genders to enact a situation in four settings: a diner, a bathroom, an office, a car. Though identically staged, each performance for the camera varies subtly in gesture and expression. The series “deals with our own preconceived ideas of what ‘the other’ represents, and how that concept in each viewer may change the reading of the image as a whole,” she says. 🖼️ See the series on view now at MoMA as part of “New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging.” 📖 Read more from the artists in the exhibition in their own words on #MoMAMagazine → mo.ma/newphotomagazine — 📷 All photos by Tania Franco Klein from the series “Subject Studies: Chapter 1.” The Family of Man Fund. © 2025 Tania Franco Klein, courtesy of Tania Franco Klein and Rose Gallery [1] “Mirrored Table, Person (Subject #14).” 2022. [2] “Mirrored Table, Person (Subject #10).” 2022. [3] “Mirrored Table, Person (Subject #9).” 2022.

What if you could reimagine how cities look, feel, and function? In MoMA and UNIQLO’s Art for All video series, architect and artist Olalekan Jeyifous talks about using design as a tool for imagination rather than problem-solving, creating visionary neighborhoods that question traditional ideas of architecture. His alternate realities ask: “What if our cities were built with everyone in mind from the start?” Watch more → mo.ma/46MjGia UNIQLO is MoMA’s proud partner of #ArtForAll

“I feel that the freedom of colors in space is very much what I’ve always been involved in.” — Ellsworth Kelly While living and working in Paris, from 1948 to 1954, artist Ellsworth Kelly developed an abstract vocabulary of line, form, and color. He absorbed the lessons of Byzantine icons and Romanesque frescoes, Jean Arp’s experiments with chance and Henri Matisse’s economical line, all of which helped him develop his own artistic language. Kelly became interested in the way that painting engages with the architectural space it inhabits. He began “choosing things out there in the world and presenting them,” adopting the forms of a window, some awnings, or the shadows of a staircase, and offering them as apparent abstractions. In “Orange Green,” made the following decade, when he was back in New York, Kelly explored the careful balance of two areas of color. — 🖼️ Ellsworth Kelly. “Orange Green.” 1964. Promised gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Jack Shear. © 2025 Ellsworth Kelly

📣 “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective” opens at MoMA on October 19! This first posthumous full-scale retrospective celebrates the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and form, bringing together 300 works including wire sculptures, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, and prints. From her early days at Black Mountain College to her robust community work in San Francisco, Asawa transformed everyday materials into thoughtful works of art, blurring the lines between abstraction and figuration, figure and ground, and positive and negative space. 🎟️ Learn more and plan your visit → mo.ma/asawa 👀 See the exhibition before it opens to the public—become a member today and enjoy exclusive Member Previews, October 16–18. — All artworks by Ruth Asawa [1] “Untitled (S.402, Hanging Two Interlocking Spheres, Each Containing One Sphere that Interlocks with an Outer Half-Sphere Form).” 1954. Collection of James and Vivian Zelter. © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., Courtesy David Zwirner. Image © 2020 Christie's Images Limited [2] “Poppy (TAM.1479).” 1965. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co., 1967. © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. Courtesy David Zwirner. [3] “Untitled (S.355, Hanging Tied-Wire, Double-Sided, Open-Center, Five-Petaled Form Based on Nature).” c. 1965. Private collection. © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. Courtesy David Zwirner. [4] Ruth Asawa at “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective View,” San Francisco Museum of Art, 1973. Photograph by Laurence Cuneo. © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. Courtesy David Zwirner.

Ever wondered about your favorite artists’ favorite food? It’s National Cooking Day, so we found the answer 🧑🍳 In 1977, art and food enthusiasts Madeleine Conway and Nancy Kirk collaborated with MoMA to develop the “Artists’ Cookbook”—a collection of favorite recipes by thirty of the era’s most prominent artists, including Salvador Dalí, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, and many more. The result? 155 recipes, ranging from Andy Warhol’s “Milk of Tomato Soup,” consisting of 1 can of condensed Campbell’s and 2 cans of milk, to Alice Neel’s “Hot Fudge Sauce,” to Christo’s “Quick and Easy Filet Mignon Dinner Party.” — [1] Cover. “The Museum of Modern Art Artists’ Cookbook.” [2] Salvador Dalí. [3] Alice Neel. [4] Recipes provided by Alice Neel. [5] Elaine de Kooning. Copyright © text 1977 by authors Madeleine Conway and Nancy Kirk. Copyright © photographs 1977 by The Museum of Modern Art. All rights reserved. Photograph of Salvador Dalí from “Les Diners de Gala,” Editions Draeger with the permission of Salvador Dalí. All other photographs by Blaine Waller.

Beginning in 1975 and continuing for nearly three decades, artist Ted Joans used perforated, accordion-folded printer paper to create the longest-known iteration of the “exquisite corpse” game first made famous by European Surrealists in the 1920s.   📺 Learn more about the history of the exquisite corpse game in our “How to See” series on our YouTube page → mo.ma/4p44xRG

Calling all families! Registration is now open for a free day of art, performances, and hands-on fun at UNIQLO Family Day on October 4. Get ready for a full day of art and discovery: 🖼️ Explore line, shape, and color with hands-on activities in front of modern masterpieces 🌳 Sketch sculptures in the Sculpture Garden 🖍️ Imagine and draw a superhero for a mural 🎶 Listen and draw along to music with live performances 📖 Join a read-aloud of “The Dot” with author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds Learn more and register now → mo.ma/3HMaX79 — 📸 Austin Donohue

Join us for a celebration of contemporary art! 🪩 On Thursday, September 25, MoMA’s second floor collection galleries will be open late for Artist Party: Destination Unknown, a one-night only event featuring special performances, DJ sets, artist activations, and more Discover the unexpected in our galleries, with featured artists as your guides. 🎟️ Learn more and get tickets → mo.ma/destinationunknown 📅 September 25 🕰️ 7:00–10:00 p.m. ➡️ Free for MoMA Members — 📸 Rachel Hacking