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MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1 is located at 22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens, NY. The museum was founded in 1971 as the Institute for Art and Urban Resources and became affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2000. It is one of the largest nonprofit contemporary art institutions in the United States. MoMA PS1 is dedicated to displaying experimental and innovative contemporary art across various mediums. Notable exhibitions have included “Greater New York” which showcases emerging artists from the New York area and retrospectives of artists like Mike Kelley and Marina Abramovic. The museum also hosts the annual Warm Up music series and offers educational programs artist residencies and public events fostering a dynamic and engaging environment for contemporary art. Read more about Museums.

A monolithic green iridescent sculpture emerges from dense vegetation under a cloudy sky.

Puerto Rico’s National Forest Becomes a Living Laboratory for Art and Ecology

In ArteYUNQUE, contemporary art, Indigenous memory, ancestral knowledge and environmental care converge, reimagining how human creativity can operate in symbiosis with nature.
By Elisa Carollo
A rooftop installation of Christmas trees at DUMBO House, each tree decorated with multicolored lights and playful, fabric-covered arms reaching outward, set against sweeping views of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline at dusk.

10 New York Museum Shows Worth Slowing Down for Over the Holidays

After Miami and before the new year, the art world calendar briefly loosens its grip, creating a rare pause that invites unhurried engagement with New York’s most compelling museum exhibitions.
By Elisa Carollo

Observer’s 2025 Art Power Index: The Art Market’s Most Influential People

Their acquisitions, affinities and approbations move the needle on valuation and redefine how art is made, shown and sold.
By The Editors,  Christa Terry,  Dan Duray,  Elisa Carollo,  Farah Abdessamad,  and Merin Curotto
Crowds gathered in front of the large Frieze London entrance banner in Regent’s Park, surrounded by autumn trees with vibrant yellow and orange leaves.

Frieze London Restores Market Confidence and Outsells Expectations

By Elisa Carollo
Installation view of a room clad in drywall panels with fire extinguishers arranged beside a recessed white pit.

MoMA PS1’s ‘The Gatherers’ Rejects Climate Catastrophism in Favor of Resilient Resourcefulness

By Elisa Carollo
An image shows a woman with gray hair tied back, wearing glasses and a black outfit with a patterned shawl, standing in front of a busy outdoor courtyard at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, where people are sitting on steps and around tables beneath a banner for the fair.

Lesley A. Martin On the New York Art Book Fair’s Legacy, Urgency and Return to MoMA PS1

By Dan Duray
A surreal outdoor installation in a forest, featuring an enormous gray sculptural form resembling a fossilized creature or root system winding through autumn leaves and slender tree trunks.

As the Aichi Triennale Considers Humanity’s Fragile Bond with Nature, Hoor Al Qasimi Reflects on Its Role

By Elisa Carollo
A sunlit courtyard at MoMA PS1 filled with people gathering for Warm Up. Groups sit, stand, and chat against the backdrop of a large green wall mural reading “ARTISTS MAKE NEW YORK.”

Raving in the Museum: Institutions Explore New Ways to Develop Audiences and Raise Funds

By Elisa Carollo
A portrait of artist and filmmaker Karimah Ashadu seated in her studio beside a monitor and speaker, wearing tinted glasses and a textured black shirt, with shelves and a white curtain in the background.

Silver Lion Winner Karimah Ashadu On Art, Resilience and Making Her U.S. Debut

By Gameli Hamelo

Art Stars Party With the Power Patrons: Inside This Year’s MoMA PS1 Gala

By Christa Terry
A view looking up through the spiraling interior of the Guggenheim Museum's rotunda, with the glass dome ceiling above and hanging plants and natural materials suspended at various levels throughout the central atrium.

These Are the Spring Season’s Must-See Museum Shows

By Elisa Carollo
Installation view with textile pieces featuring faces of semi deities

How Pacita Abad Wove a Multicultural Tapestry of Humanity

By Elisa Carollo

Edible Pearls and Red Carpet Parrots: A Look Inside MoMA PS1’s 2024 Gala and Afterparty

By Christa Terry
A woman in a patterned dress stands in front of a colorful textile painting

One Fine Show: ‘Pacita Abad’ at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

By Dan Duray

The Most Influential People in the Art World Today

By Dan Duray, Farah Abdessamad, Christa Terry and The Editors
Older white woman dressed in black dress with strikingly large diamond necklace stands by a column

Agnes Gund Sells Another Roy Lichtenstein for Charity

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

The 9 Must-See Museum Exhibitions of Summer 2021

By Helen Holmes

Outsider No More, Niki de Saint Phalle’s First NYC Exhibition at MoMA PS1 Dazzles

By John Reed

Rising Star Artist Naudline Pierre Has Just Joined James Cohan Gallery

By Helen Holmes

MASS MoCA is Going to Open a New James Turrell ‘Skyspace’ in May

By Helen Holmes

NYC Performance Spaces Have Stepped Up to Help Protesters, and Museums Should Too

By Helen Holmes
"Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses" at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.

Spring’s Best Museum Shows Celebrate the Influence of Daring Experimentalists

By Helen Holmes

Artists Call on MoMA to Cut Board Members Who ‘Profit From ‘Suffering’

By Helen Holmes

James Turrell’s ‘Meeting’ Installation Has Finally Reopened at MoMA PS1

By Helen Holmes
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