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An artist-centered, community-driven site of experimentation for over 40 years ๐ Admission is always FREE for New Yorkers! #MoMAPS1 #ArtistsMakeNewYork
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"Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon" is now open at MoMA PS1! . Over the last two decades, Ralph's practice has traversed themes of generosity, mortality, devotion, Blackness, and joy. Experience the full range of his collaborative work in performance, dance, drawing,
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This face is unrecognizable to facial recognition technology. Learn how to apply your own anti-surveillance makeup as part of our #VWSundaySessions program on radical archiving this weekend. More at
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โI think Iโm stubborn. In the beginning, I had no precedent for being valued. Everything that came from a womanโs experience was considered trivial. I wasnโt sure if my work would shift that paradigm or not, but I had to try.โ โ #CaroleeSchneemann
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MoMA PS1 will be distributing water, snacks, and providing bathroom access from 5:30โ7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 5 in conjunction with the planned vigil in Court Square from 6โ6:30 p.m.
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A first look at our site-specific installation of #YayoiKusama's "Narcissus Garden," in an abandoned building at Fort Tilden. "Rockway!" is free and open to the public beginning Sunday, July 1. See you at the beach ๐#RockawayKusama
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Here's a preview of what you might experience at PS1 after our reopening on Thursday๐ "Stage" is a new interactive installation by Rashid Johnson, offering a place for the public to speak their mind, or to simply ๐ท
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Did you know Schneemann means "snowman?" Winter is #CaroleeSchneemann's favorite season, so we know who we want on our side. Proof: a still from her performance "Snows" (1967). #museumsnowballfight
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๐จ๐ฆ@FreddieGibbs and @madlib just dropped a new album that @rollingstone calls "weirder, more freewheeling, more Madlib-y." ๐See them for yourself on Saturday at #WarmUp2019. Tickets selling fast: #BANDANA
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MoMA PS1 will be distributing water and snacks, and providing bathroom access from 11 a.m.โ7:15 p.m. today in conjunction with planned actions in Long Island City.
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"We have claimed that women's work is good. And I feel that women's work is good. Equally as good as men, if not better." โ #NancySpero . See the work of an early champion of feminist art. Nancy Spero: Paper Mirror is on view at MoMA PS1 through June 23.
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Sentenced to life in prison at 17, James "Yaya" Hough spent 27 years in a cell in Pennsylvania before he was released in 2019. While imprisoned, he created a huge body of work exploring themes of isolation, race, resistance of authoritarianism, and sex and violence in the US.
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Do nothing for 15 seconds. ๐ We're wishing a very happy birthday to the king of light and space, James Turrell. While we're all missing his beloved PS1 Skyspace irl, here is a brief timelapse glimpse at the sunset lighting program from last summer. #MuseumMomentofZen
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๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ.Springยทtoberยท Fest ./spriNGหtลbษrหfest/ .noun: a spring festival held at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, featuring the drinking of local beer on Sat., May 5 from 8 p.m. to midnight. Tickets:
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We may be isolated but you are not alone! Tune in to #ComeTogetherFest tomorrow from noon to midnight. For one day only, weโre streaming sets by local DJs, talks from members of our music community, and workshops on music-making and creative expression:
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Conceptual artist Anicka Yi reveals her family history with food, how chefs have influenced her art, and her recipe for an herb and lemon pasta in this episode of #CookingwithArtists with chef Mina Stone. Get the recipe and watch the full video at ๐๐ฟ
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See #TurrellMeeting's sunset lighting program, now during regular museum hours! Beginning daily about 20 mins before sundown. #JamesTurrell
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NYC RESIDENTS: Until Oct. 2017 receive FREE entrance to MoMA PS1 thanks to the generosity of the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.
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"I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light." . ๐ค๏ธICYMI: #JamesTurrell's sunset lighting program for "Meeting" can now be seen during regular museum hours:
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Join cultural historian Saidiya Hartman and artists Garrett Bradley, Arthur Jafa, Simone Leigh, Okwui Okpokwasili & Cameron Rowland for a public celebration of Hartman's work on January 9. Free with RSVP:
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The Living's "Hy-Fi" announced as Young Architects Program 2014 Winner!.@MuseumModernArt @MoMAPS1WarmUp #YAP
http://t.co/kPim4UHtVT.
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Do you like books? Well, we have books. @PRINTED_MATTER's 2017 NY Art Book Fair is here, Learn More:
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๐ผโฅ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ฟNow on view: "Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life" is a world of pure color and imagination. Featuring over 200 works, ephemera, and archival photos, the exhibition brings to life Saint Phalleโs belief that art can shift reality:
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"Maria Lassnig" - extended through September 7!.Installation view of "Maria Lassnig", 2014. Photo Matthew Septimus. http://t.co/Mnwgpy3gnt.
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This #WomensHistoryMonth weโre highlighting #5WomenArtists we love from the perspective of the women who work at MoMA PS1 ๐
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We want you in our Zoom โจOn Tuesday at 8 p.m. celebrate the publication of "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" with author Nicole R. Fleetwood, poet and scholar Fred Moten, and artists Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter and Jesse Krimes:
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Itโs the final weekend to catch this monumental work by #BruceNauman at @MuseumModernArt, closing Monday, Feb 18. A neon sign comprised of 100 flashing, rainbow-colored variations on the phrase โLive and Die,โ the original was completed in 1984:
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2016 Young Architects Program winner "Weaving the Courtyard" opens early June! #architectureMW #EscobedoSolizStudio
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A picture of #MoMAPS1's grand 1997 re-opening. Over 200 artists participated! #MuseumWeek #HeritageMW
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Beat the heat at #WarmUp2016 in our refreshing wading pool, part of the Young Architects Program installation
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Phe๐๐๐๐๐๐ology (noun): #BruceNaumanโs artistic inquiry into the structures of experience and consciousness. Follow his five-decade search for new ways of making art, employing a vast array of materials and working methods:
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Artist and photographer Gordon Parks (1912-2006) tackled issues of race, poverty, and policing in America. Thursday at 8 p.m., join @MuseumModernArt for an online conversation and live Q&A with @NicoleFleetwoo2 and @KhalilGMuhammad:
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PS1 returns Sept 17. We're reopening with the long-awaited exhibition "Marking Time" and a courtyard commission by Rashid Johnson. Now with extended hours, you can visit later and spend more time in our outdoor courtyard, Thursday through Monday, 12โ8 p.m:
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โProcesiรณn-Migraciรณnโ has begun! Friends, musicians & animals join Papo Colo for his procession through the rain forest. #PuertosRicos
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๐ฅOn #MothersDay, weโre celebrating all the kick-ass caretakers, mothers, and guardians out there. ๐ท#DelilahMontoya, Akondaye & Family (2006) from her series of portraits of women boxers. More at
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๐ฃ A major exhibition exploring art and mass incarceration opens April 5. "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" underscores how prisons and the prison industrial complex are central to contemporary art and culture. #MarkingTimePS1
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Thanks to all who came out tonight! See more #NightAtTheMuseum fun on our Instagram Story: instagram/momaps1
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"Contrapposto Split" (2017) is #BruceNauman's newest video work on view in Disappearing Acts, created especially for this exhibition using 3-D video technology. See this work to full effect at MoMA PS1 through February 25:
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Join us this summer for Rockaway!, a free public arts festival from June 29โSept 1 http://t.co/rc8smpo2Vl
http://t.co/mr6ES9MHv3.
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In today's @NewYorker: Ian Cheng's "transhumanist vision" that "dreams of the future." Read more:
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PS1 is closed today due to inclement weather. Be safe out there! We'll reopen Thursday at noon:
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For one day only, we're streaming Ian Cheng's Emissary trilogy live on @museummodernart's YouTube channel! Watch now
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SUMMER L๐KS. We commissioned a #WarmUp2018 capsule collection featuring designs by COME TEES, @earlboykins & @hassanrahim. Get yours exclusively at the @momadesignstore in Soho and on-site at Warm Up, every Saturday, Jun 30 โ Sep 1 ๐ฆ Shop online at
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See Carolee Schneemann's "Colorado House" and more of her assemblage works on view now in #KineticPainting.
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Sunset viewings of James Turrell's "Meeting" are back! Learn more and get tickets at
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To the woman who did it first, and fearlessly. A true radical who asserted the power of women's bodies in her painting, performance, film, and installation. An artist who revolutionized the future of art history; a devoted cat lover: infinity kisses. #CaroleeSchneemann
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"With two million people behind bars, a stirring exhibition at MoMA PS1 shows the ingenuity of art made by incarcerated people, in restricted space and with few supplies." โ @nytimes . #MarkingTimePS1 is now on view: .
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Ever laugh for over 2 hours straight? @EricGottesman's video installation documenting a laughing contest in Ethiopia is on view now.
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MoMA PS1 will be distributing water and snacks, and providing bathroom access from 5โ7:15 p.m on Sunday, June 7 in conjunction with the vigil in Court Square at 6 p.m.
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Join us on Sunday from 12-6 PM for MoMA PS1's 40th Anniversary Open House. Free and open to the public!
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Warm Up Lineup Change: @asapferg moved to Aug. 12; announcing @RavenxMiyagi on Aug. 5! Learn More:
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Tonight! @alejodorowsky joins @klausbiesenbach to discuss tarot and his new film "Endless Poetry." Live-stream at
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It's been a year since the COVID-19 shutdown in NYC. This painting of Saint Sebastian by "Marking Time" artist Cedar Mortenson was made in prison in the last year, entirely in solitary confinement, using soaked coffee grounds as pigment and a paintbrush made from her own hair.
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"Humans have to realize they're not individuals, but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other." โ Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950โ2020)
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Happy birthday to everyone's favorite light and space artist, #JamesTurrell. "Meeting" is the artist's only Skyspace in New York City and was the very first in the U.S. Pro tip: tickets for this summerโs sunset viewings will be released very soon โจ๐
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โจ#newMoMA is here. Congratulations to @MuseumModernArt on their reopening, now with tons of new galleries and spaces for performance, art making, and conversation. See what's up:
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Artist #MarkLeckey: "I treat these shows like an exorcism. It's about getting these ideas out of my head and into the physical realm."
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โ Today calls for tea. Make this "incredibly soothing" recipe courtesy of artist Shaun Leonardo's grandfather. Plus, find his family recipe for comforting bacalao guisado (salt cod stew) at
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๐บ THIS WEEKEND catch DJ and record producer, @MichaelBrun at #WarmUp2019. Hailing from Port au Prince, Brun merges EDM with Haitian beats like kompa and rara. Grab your tickets now: ๐บ
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โ ๏ธSee the full lineup at . ๐ฆHighlights this summer include: @FreddieGibbs & @madlib, @ShoMadjozi, @themariasmp3, @cruelsantino, @smino, @erisdrew, @themartinezbros, @AnnieMac, @kellyleeowens, @FuegoFBM, @MichaelBrun, and @stillmallgrab!
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#StayHome on Saturday and settle in for a daylong streaming festival to celebrate and support our music communities. Come Together (Apart) builds on #ComeTogetherFest, the 4th annual music festival and record fair with @othermusic that was slated to take place IRL this weekend.
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During the week of May 1, 1989, 460 individuals were killed by gunshot in the US. #FelixGonzalezTorresโs โUntitled (Death by Gun)โ features images of all 460 deceased. The work is available in our lobby and @MuseumModernArt for visitors to take:
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Spend Sunday at our Fall Open House, with new exhibitions featuring #MarkLeckey, #CinthiaMarcelle, & #SaschaBraunig!
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"I tell a lot of young artists: You don't follow my path. You take what I started and make it better." - #HiramMaristany Today we mourn the loss of a true legend.
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๐ธ Opening Thursday ๐ธ The first major US exhibition of French-American artist #NikideSaintPhalle, "Structures for Life" features over 200 works that envision new ways of inhabiting the world.
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#ComeTogetherFest is now streaming online! We have a full day of music, conversation, and community ready for you:
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๐ฟ๐บ๐ฟThis summer's 20th annual Young Architects Program winners Pedro & Juana (@pedroyjuana_mx) will transform our concrete jungle into an immersive junglescape. "Hรณrama Rama" will feature a panoramic image of greenery and wildlife contrasting with the surrounding city. #YAP2019
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๐๐ฝArtists๐๐ผMake๐๐พNew๐York๐๐ฟ And artists have made PS1 from the start. We're excited to unveil our repainted Courtyard wallโa tribute to all the artists of NY who have shaped our city & made it a creative epicenter. They advocate. They invent. They document. They make this city.
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"The work. is really about the blood, the violence of genocide in America and the native resilience to survive the genocide." โ Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds . Hear from Edgar Heap of Birds on Sunday at 3 p.m. in a free gallery talk at our open house
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After being closed for renovation, #JamesTurrell's 'Meeting' is "worth the wait": @TimeOutNewYork #TurrellMeeting.
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๐ 4 DAYS TIL WARM UP ๐ Summer at MoMA PS1 begins Saturday with the first Warm Up of the season. Get your tickets now at and catch @CASHMERECAT, @venusxgg & @MA_NGUZU, @burnaboy (JUST ANNOUNCED), @valee, NรDIA + more, plus a special guest TBA. #WarmUp2018
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#GreaterNewYork opens Sunday! At our entrance is David Hammons's "African American Flag." http://t.co/KZmgYPXqLb.
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In James Turrell's "Meeting," the artist invites an encounter between earth & sky, between light & time. Hear the artist discuss the inspiration behind this Skyspace, in our audio guide, and see the sunset lighting program when you visit MoMA PS1. Listen:
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Today we mourn the loss of our friend #CaroleeSchneemann, a bright spirit who impacted our lives indelibly. It was an honor to work with a legend on her major retrospective "Kinetic Painting" in 2017. Learn more about her iconic career:
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The MoMA PS1 Rooftop Garden is now open for the summer! http://t.co/uTAM6w2PxY
http://t.co/22iqa0y54L.
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Another DJ duo playing #WarmUpWYA, @AceM0 and @MoMa_Ready fill "a real vacuum in the New York music community of a truly underground, transgressive rave sound." ๐
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We've lost a good friend and contributor to the history of MoMA PS1, Germano Celant (1940โ2020). He organized "The Knot" (1985) at PS1, the first exhibition in NY that brought together 12 major postwar "arte povera" Italian artists working in materials like rags, paper, and rope.
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Night at the Museum is tomorrow! Your first drink is on us with an advance ticket:
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"You cannot reform prison. Inhumanity is so deeply embedded in that institution, there's no way you can reform it." โ @TheRealHalim . Listen in as "Marking Time" artists reflect on what prison abolition means to them with curator @NicoleFleetwoo2:
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The #VWDome is back! Stay tuned for a fall full of activity. Special thanks to cultural partner @vw @volkswagen.
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Happy #EarthDay! Artist #MitchEpstein went to 25 states photographing effects of life with #powerplants on citizens
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Proud to share the voices of Claudia Rankine & Ronaldo V. Wilson as part of the Greater New York Readers series
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"To take care of objects is to take care of memory." โ Daniel Lind-Ramos. Starting April 20, our galleries will be filled with Daniel's monumental sculptures that explore the connected histories & enduring practices of Afro-Caribbean communities in Puerto Rico & around the world.
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The #WarmUp2017 lineup is here! See which artists will be part of our landmark 20th season, and get your tickets now
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