Marina Abramovic talks about the difference between theater and performance art, "performance is real." Created by The Museum of Modern Art. [1:55]

Can performance art be re-performed? How can it be collected by the museum? To explore what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art. [2:16]

In this video [1:27] Marina Abramovic talks about her first performance, when she was a child. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989.

In this video [1:40] Marina Abramovic talks about how she shifted from painting to performance art. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.

In this video [3:57] MoMA PS1 Director Klaus Biesenbach talks with artist Marina Abramovic and actor James Franco. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989.

In this video [2:21] Performance artists talk about their workshop with Marina Abramovic in preparation for re-performing her works at MoMA. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary...

Though we might not notice it, frames affect how we see a painting. To learn about how art changes over time, enroll in one of MoMA's courses online.. Created by The Museum of Modern Art. [3:11]

Explore the process of conserving Matisse's "The Swimming Pool," one of the artist's most beloved cut-out masterpieces and a centerpiece of the Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition at MoMA. Create your own cut-outs and collages and...

In this video [2:35] This is Rene Magritte's Menaced Assassin from 1927. In preparation for the exhibition, we did some treatment, and also some technical examinations. One of the techniques we used for examining the painting was...

This video [2:12] This beautiful book is titled "Klange," or "Sounds." It's by Vasily Kandinsky, who was a very important painter. He also made a number of illustrated books in the early 1910s. It was published in 1913, but he actually...

The Italian futurists were one group of artists who were doing incredible things in 1913. Thinking about art as something that had to be for the new century. Speed, noise, machinery, and the city became a key part of all of their...

Many artists create work in response to the social, cultural, and political issues of their time. See how Dorothea Lange, Martha Rosler, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres responded to the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, and the AIDS crisis....

This video [2:59] In preparation for the Magritte exhibition, they began examining The Portrait, from 1935. What started as a fairly routine conservation treatment uncovered some very interesting details about Magritte's painting.

In this video [3:15] photography helps MoMA conservators determine how to treat Picasso's 1913 Cubist sculpture, Still-Life with Guitar. To learn about how art changes over time, enroll in one of MoMA's courses online. Created by The...

To learn more about the history of sound, video and performance art, enroll in our online courses, including Five Puzzles of Contemporary Art.

In this video [1:06] watch Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) and Intersection II (1992) installed in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden in 2007. To learn about how art changes over time, enroll in one of MoMA's online...

In this video [1:19] "The False Mirror" by Rene Magritte presents us with this enormous, lashless eye. Its iris is very and implausibly filled with this luminous cloud-swept blue sky, and then right at dead center is this matte black,...

In this video [4:36] Explore how artists like Frida Kahlo, Glenn Ligon, and Andy Warhol investigate and express ideas about identity in their work. See short films about other themes: http://bit.ly/1OqE0ZZ Keep learning:...

Many artists use or combine everyday objects to challenge assumptions about what constitutes "art" and how it should be made. Learn how Marcel Duchamp, Meret Oppenheim, and Robert Rauschenberg did the same with a bicycle wheel and a...

Art may be found in museums, but it almost never begins there. Discover some of the different ways that artists represent place and use materials from their environment, as seen in works by Vincent van Gogh, Piet Mondrian and Gordon...

Looking at modern art through the lens of different themes can reveal surprising connections and new insights. In our new online course, 'Modern Art & Ideas,' we explore four themes we often use when teaching at The Museum of Modern...

This video [2:29] they did a lot of investigation on the painting "Palace of Curtains, III." The varnish was not something that Magritte would have chosen for this work. We realized that this painting should not be varnished. We first...

This circular painting by Robert Delaunay is one of many that takes advantage and really responds to the science of the beginning of the 20th century and thinking about the heavens, thinking about the movements of the sun, the moon, the...