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What made the iPod a design icon?

🎵 On this day 25 years ago, the first iPod was released. The first-generation iPod featured a mechanical scroll wheel, four navigational buttons along its...

Have you ever noticed the sculpture on MoMA’s roof?

Created by artist Rachel Whiteread, "Water Tower" is a translucent resin cast of the interior of a once-functioning cedar water tower. Its appearance shifts...

What happens at MoMA after dark?

What happens when the lights go off at MoMA? Things go bump in the night. A mysterious lady in white stands watch. A spectral...

The artist who scuba dives to paint

“I would call it a sacred practice. My body disappears.” For artist Torkwase Dyson, scuba diving is more than just an escape beneath the...

Why this building is covered in triangles

Triangles everywhere— but why? In Dakar, Senegal, a striking modernist landmark turns a single geometric motif into an architectural statement. Discover the design behind the...

How African ideas shaped modern art

In the 1930s and 1940s, Paris was a mecca for Black artists, writers, musicians, and intellectuals from around the world. From this crucible, in...

The Secret Lives of Artists: Lee Miller | Podcast Episode 3

Model, muse, artist, photojournalist, inventor, mother, chef. Lee Miller had many lives in the 20th century. We are only just now grasping her impact...

The Secret Lives of Artists: John Cage | Podcast Episode 2

John Cage is best known as a revolutionary composer who expanded the definition of music to include sound, silence, and chance. But while he...

The Secret Lives of Artists: Marcel Duchamp | Podcast Episode 1

Marcel Duchamp rewrote the rules of modern art, but also happened to be obsessed with one of the most rule-bound games ever invented—chess. MoMA...