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How can Afrofuturism in art inspire new futures and reclaim dark histories? Watch how a filmmaker interprets Wangechi Mutu's, "MamaRay," a lifesize sculpture

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How can Afrofuturism in art inspire new futures and reclaim dark histories? Watch how a filmmaker interprets Wangechi Mutu's, "MamaRay," a lifesize sculpture—half woman, half manta ray— as a call to legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and lives lost at sea. "What would it mean to have a new goddess figure that is a […]

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Afrofuturism in sculpture: How Wangechi Mutu addresses African diaspora | UNIQLO ArtSpeaks. Medium Bronze Dimensions 65" × 16' × 12' (165.1 × 487.7 × 365.8 cm) Credit Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds and gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Frances Archipenko Gray (both by exchange) Object number 336.2022

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Sheldon Gooch, a curatorial fellow for the Department of Drawings and Prints, finds his childhood love of science fiction expressed in Wangechi Mutu's use of

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UNIQLO ArtSpeaks. Wangechi Mutu's Eve Portfolio. Take a look at the artist's provocative take on the first woman through the lens of Afrofuturism. Nov 18, 2022. In the online edition of MoMA's ArtSpeaks program, a member of our staff shares personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries.

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UNIQLO ArtSpeaks. In the online edition of MoMA's ArtSpeaks program, we invite staff members, artists, and special guests to share personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries. Explore our collection work by work as we release a new video each month. UNIQLO is MoMA's proud partner of #ArtforAll.

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MoMA lobby manager Christine Brown finds a safe haven amid the controlled chaos of Joan Mitchell's 1957 painting "Ladybug."Subscribe for our latest videos, a

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"Within afrofuturism or science fiction by Black writers, they really look to the past as it informs the present and brings about a new future." —... |

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Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, the Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator of Painting and Sculpture, looks at Sue Williamson's "For Thirty Years Next to His Heart," in which the 30-year life of one man's official government passbook "captures the experience of Black South Africans under apartheid"—and serves as a reminder that we must not forget the most […]

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Development officer Jamie Bergos gets up close to Maria Martins's 1946 sculpture "The Impossible, III," and finds that the unsettling sculpture seems to dramatize the thin line between love and hate.

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"I think if we have more windows to people's lived experiences then we'd have more compassion for others." Wangechi Mutu's sculpture of a mystical

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MoMA Membership guest specialist Josephine McReynolds dives into Henri Matisse's "Swimming Pool" and finds a renewed sense of play...and a metaphor for the a

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UNIQLO ArtSpeaks was launched through the Museum's digital platform in the fall of 2020 to reach audiences beyond the Museum's walls. Through videos available on MoMA's website and on YouTube, Museum staff share their personal experiences with works of artwork in the galleries. Under the UNIQLO Art For All digital series, UNIQLO ArtSpeaks will

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UNIQLO ArtSpeaks. Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi on Sue Williamson. Williamson's 49-panel work captures the legacy of South African apartheid through one man's life. Dec 18, 2020. In our latest online edition of MoMA's ArtSpeaks program, a member of our staff shares personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries.

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Lanka Tattersall, a curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, talks about the surprising layers of technique and meaning—personal, political, and env

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Alaina Boukedes, a guest specialist in the Department of Visitor Engagement, talks about the "unpredictability" of her favorite piece in the Museum,

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Roxana Marcoci, senior curator in the Department of Photography, talks about how Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills series uses playing dress-up to ask big

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Today, UNIQLO is thrilled to provide free admission to New Yorkers on the first Friday of each month. Two digital series, UNIQLO ArtSpeaks and Drawn to MoMA, allow millions of viewers worldwide to explore the art on view in the galleries through the eyes and personal impressions of MoMA staff, artists, and other special guests.

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Paintings conservator Anny Aviram reflects on the bucolic village life depicted in Marc Chagall's "I and the Village," and is reminded of how her own family—like Chagall—found a new home in Mexico decades later.

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A prelude to the Civil Rights movement. Naeem Douglas, a content producer on the Creative Team, finds contemporary resonance in a selection of photographs—in

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First coined in 1993 by the cultural critic Mark Derry, afrofuturism refers to a literary and artistic mode of reimagining Black history and culture—and possible futures—through the lens of science fiction and fantasy. Black artists in many disciplines, including music, dance, painting, and literature, use afrofuturism to recover the past, understand the present, and envision a future on