The Museum of
Modern Art (MoMA)

The MoMA

“The greatest collection of modern art in the world” — The New York Times

Founded in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan was the first museum devoted to the modern era. MoMA’s unparalleled collection offers a comprehensive, panoramic overview of modern and contemporary art, from the innovative European painting and sculpture of the 1880s to today’s film, design, and performance art.

Photo ©2010 Timothy Hursley

Galleries

Highlights include Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night, Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Henri Matisse’s Dance (I), and Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans. Also more recent works by Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Murray, Cindy Sherman, and many others.

MoMA opened in a new building 2004 which nearly doubled the space for their active exhibition schedule and programs.

Claude Monet. Water Lilies. 1914–26. Oil on canvas, three panels. The Museum of Modern Art. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund. Photo ©2010 Jason Brownrigg

MoMA PS1

Included with CityPASS

An exhibition space rather than a collecting institution, MoMA PS1 spotlights emerging artists, new genres, and adventurous new work by established artists.

Present your MoMA entrance stub within 30 days of visiting MoMA, to enter MoMA PS1 for free. It's easily accessible by car or bus and is only two subway stops from MoMA — located at 22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Avenue, in Long Island City, Queens. Details.

MoMA PS1. Photo by Matthew Septimus. Courtesy MoMA PS1

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden

An oasis in midtown Manhattan, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden combines masterworks of modern sculpture with fountains and seasonal plantings.

MoMA Nights, on Thursdays in July and Aug., offers late hours, eclectic musical performances, and a cash bar. (MoMA Nights are offered year-round on the first Thursday of every month.) Details.

Summergarden 2010, on summer Sundays, presents classical and jazz concerts with musicians from the Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Details.

Photo ©2010 Timothy Hursley

Dining

• Cafe 2 serves rustic Italian fare in an informal setting on the second-floor.
• Terrace 5, the fifth-floor café, offers a spectacular view of the Sculpture Garden and the midtown skyline.
• Seasonal outdoor terrace dining serves desserts, savory offerings, and cocktails, beer, and wine.
• The Modern (9 W. 53 St.) is a fine-dining restaurant overlooking the Sculpture Garden. Holds one Michelin star and three stars from The New York Times. Info and reservations at (212) 333-1220 or themodernnyc.com.

MoMA’s selection of dining options are created and operated by Danny Meyer's acclaimed Union Square Hospitality Group. Shown: Cafe 2 at The Museum of Modern Art. Photos: Courtesy Union Square Hospitality Group

Retail

The MoMA Stores offer a sophisticated selection of art reproductions, design objects, book titles, furniture and lighting, jewelry, and much more—including many items represented in the Museum’s design collection.

Every purchase supports The Museum of Modern Art. Shop online at momastore.org.

Campbell's Soup Cans

On permanent display – Included with CityPASS

Like other Pop artists, Warhol used images of already proven appeal to huge audiences. When he first exhibited these canvases—there are thirty-two of them, the number of soup varieties Campbell's then sold—each one simultaneously hung from the wall, like a painting, and stood on a shelf, like groceries in a store.

Andy Warhol. Campbell's Soup Cans. 1962. Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases. Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Gift of Irving Blum; Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund, gift of Nina and Gordon Bunshaft in honor of Henry Moore, Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, Philip Johnson Fund, Frances Keech Bequest, gift of Mrs. Bliss Parkinson, and Florence B. Wesley Bequest (all by exchange). (c) 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation / ARS, NY / TM Licensed by Campbell's Soup Co. All rights reserved.

VIDEO

Take a quick video tour of the The Museum of Modern Art using New York CityPASS.

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography

May 7, 2010–March 21, 2011 – Included with CityPASS

For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present.

The exhibition also highlights works drawn from a variety of curatorial departments, including Bottoms, a large-scale Fluxus wallpaper by Yoko Ono.

Ilse Bing. Self-Portrait in Mirrors. 1931. Gelatin silver print, 10 1/2 x 12" (26.8 x 30.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Joseph G. Mayer Fund. © 2010 The Ilse Bing Estate/Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery

Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917

July 18-Oct. 11, 2010 – Included with CityPASS

In the time between Henri Matisse's return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his career. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 moves beyond the surface of these paintings to examine their physical production and the essential context of Matisse's studio practice.

Timed tickets are required for this exhibition and must be redeemed when presenting your CityPASS. A limited number of timed-entry tickets will be available each day on a first-come, first-served basis.

Henri Matisse. Bathers by a River. 1909–10, 1913, 1916–17. Oil on canvas. 102 1/2 x 154 3/16" (260 x 392 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. © 2010 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Underground Gallery: London Transport Posters 1920s–1940s

July 28, 2010–Jan. 11, 2011 – Included with CityPASS

After World War I, striking modern posters began to trans­form the stations of London’s underground railway system into public art galleries. The posters, designed by significant artists like László Moholy-Nagy, Zero (Hans Schleger), and Abram Games, were the crucial face of a pioneering public transport campaign for coherence and efficiency that also included station architecture, train interiors, and Harry Beck’s iconic Underground map (1931–33). This installation presents over twenty posters that speak to the experience of modern London—from the promotion of culture and entertainment to the anxieties of daily life during WWII.

Left: E. McKnight Kauffer. Power, The Nerve Centre of London's Underground. 1930. Lithograph. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist; Right: E. McKnight Kauffer (American, 1890-1954). Winter Sales Are Best Reached by Underground. 1924. Lithograph. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designer.

New Photography 2010: Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, Amanda Ross-Ho

Sept. 29, 2010-Jan. 10, 2011 – Included with CityPASS

New Photography 2010 presents four artists—Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho—whose photographs mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media and cinema. Infusing the seductive language of film and advertising with a touch of sly conceptualism, the artists included in New Photography 2010 explore the relationship between straight and constructed photograph, image and picture.

Alex Prager. Julie. 2007. Chromogenic color print, 36 x 47 1/2" (91.4 x 120.7 cm). Image courtesy the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. © 2010 Alex Prager