Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

A Closer Look for Kids

Art

• Free

This weekend activity gives youngsters a tour of MoMA’s permanent collections and temporary exhibits. Little ones are encouraged to voice their opinions about what they dig (Mom and Dad can, too). Tickets will be distributed on the day of the program,...

Tours for Fours

Art

• Free

Parents and kids tour MoMA’s galleries in a fun and engaging way, sharing their ideas about the art and having questions answered by museum educators. A new theme is introduced each month, so you and your tot can get the scoop on everyone from Rauschenberg...

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Part 3)

Documentary, Foreign language

• $

This is the final part of Wang's epic documentary of an industrial district in northeastern China.

"Abstract Generation: Now in Print"

Prints & editions

• $$
• Critics' pick

Contemporary takes on abstraction in print provide the focus for this exhibition, featuring contributions by Cory Arcangel, Tauba Auerbach, Philippe Decrauzat, Liam Gillick, Wade Guyton, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, R. H. Quaytman and Haegue Yang.

"Hand Signals: Digits, Fists, and Talons"

Prints & editions

• $$

The hand becomes a feast for the eye in this collection of 20th-century posters and ephemera featuring the appendage as focal point.

"Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth"

Prints & editions

• $$
• Critics' pick

As with the rest of his art, Roth pushed the envelope hard when it came to publishing editioned multiples, using everything from chocolate and rabbit turds to sausages and stale croissants as materials. In fact, some of the most radical artworks of his...

"Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light"

Photography

• Rating: 5/5
• $$
• Critics' pick

One of the giants of 20th-century photography, Bill Brandt (1904–1983) is not as well-known as his close contemporaries Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans. This exemplary exhibition of his work, curated by MoMA’s Sarah Hermanson Meister, reappraises...

"Claes Oldenburg: The Street and the Store"

Museums & Attractions, Sculpture

The Pop sculptor's early career is the focus of this exhibit, which looks at two of Oldenburg's installations from the 1960s: The Store, a series of storefronts where he sold his artwork from 1961 to 1964, and The Street, which was first presented at...

Claes Oldenburg, The Street and The Store + Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing

Installation, Mixed media, Sculpture

• Rating: 5/5
• Critics' pick

Now 84, Pop artist Claes Oldenburg is best known for his drooping, soft sculptures of telephones, toilets and other household fixtures, and for the cheerfully absurdist, gargantuan versions of small objects—lipsticks, clothespins and the like—made in...

"Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light"

Design

• $$

Labrouste (1801–75) pioneered the use of glass and iron to create soaring, light-filled, cathedral-like interiors, like the ones found in his two great libraries, the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève and the Bibliothèque Nationale, both in Paris. This show,...

Old Dog

Drama, Foreign language

• $
• Critics' pick

This Tibetan drama follows the plight of a family as they decide whether or not to sell their prize mastiff.

Railroad of Hope

Documentary, Foreign language

• $

Thousands of peasants travel across China each year to earn money picking cotton; this documentary captures their arduous journey. Also on the bill is Ju Anqi's There's a Strong Wind in Beijing (1999).

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Action & adventure, Romance

• $
• Critics' pick

Errol Flynn robs from the rich, gives to the poor and winks at the ladies in what is still the greatest screen version of this durable legend. Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains head an outstanding supporting cast. Way, way too much...

Yumen

Documentary, Foreign language

• $

This experimental doc captures the derelict Chinese town of Yumen, once a booming oil community, now almost entirely depleted.

Random International, Rain Room

Installation

• $$
• Critics' pick

As part of "EXPO 1: New York" at MoMA PS1, the museum offers what is essentially an indoor rain shower by archi-visionaries Random International. The piece turns on and off depending on the presence of viewers, and is sure to be the feel-good museum hit...

"XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography"

Photography

• $$

MoMA trots out its latest photographic holdings, which include photos by Robert Frank, Lynn Hershman Leeson and Stephen Shore, among many others.