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MoMA makes a stand by acquiring video removed from display by Washington's NPG

Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly is already on display at the New York museum

MoMA director Glenn Lowry casts his expert eye over Miami

As Art Basel looms large, Lowry weighs in on the best the region has to offer, citing the Bass Museum's "Creative Caribbean Network"

MoMA announces Lygia Clark exhibition

The show will be the first North American retrospective of the artist

Interview with Marina Abramovic: "Life is getting faster, the art has to go slower”

Marina Abramovic on the pain of sitting still, being the black sheep of the family and working with Robert Wilson

Marina Abramovic's the Artist is Present at MoMA

This massive retrospective will include recreations of past pieces as well as a new, physically demanding work

Fondation Beyeler unveils plans to allow observation of Matisse restoration

A conservation studio will be opened to educate the public about the costly process of reconstructing Matisse's Acanthes

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Grosz heirs vs MoMA case dismissed

MoMA maintains that the Grosz works were never Nazi loot

MoMA celebrates film preservation

Artists such as Kara Walker to introduce newly restored works by Kubrick and others

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New evidence in Grosz Nazi loot case against MoMA

Museum disputes heirs’ claim for three works by the German painter George Grosz

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MoMA tower to loom over Manhattan

Concerns over Jean Nouvel skyscraper, to house museum extension in its base

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MoMA brings super-collector Dakis Joannou into the fold

Greek industrialist joins painting and sculpture committee

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MoMA buys Chinese contemporary photographs including works by Ai Weiwei and Sheng Qi

Twenty-eight pieces have been purchased from collector Larry Warsh

New media exhibition as the "the coming of age show" for the National Museum of China

The country’s first major survey of new media took place in June—with a little help from MoMA, Tate, and several others

MoMA stem cell exhibit dies five weeks into show

“Victimless Leather”, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells, was fed nutrients by tube

A look at the ethical and economic problems underlying museum acquisitions

Museums should beware of being used as marketing tools by collectors

MoMA and Guggenheim file joint appeal against restitution effort

They dispute claims made by Julius Schoeps on Picassos in their collection

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Tim Burton as great as Warhol, says MoMA in the lead up to its exhibition on the director

The curator of an exhibition which includes over 700 of the film-maker’s drawings, paintings, graphic works and photographs, believes Burton will come to be seen as one of the most influential artists of our time

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MoMA zeroing in on contemporary art with new associate director position

The former head of the Walker Art Centre takes up the newly created post next year

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The films of Warhol’s lost lover rediscovered: A documentary on Danny Williams

Esther Robinson’s engrossing movie includes footage of several of Williams’ films

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MoMA defends director’s secret pay

Glenn Lowry received more than $5m through a separate trust which the New York museum's trustees argue was “legal and ethical”

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Books: Kirk Varnedoe’s Mellon lectures prove to be a fitting swansong for the famous MoMA curator

Given three months before his death, these last lectures are now in print

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MoMA’s secret fund for director

Trust payment “raises serious questions”

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MoMA sells land and secures room for expansion

The new deal will earn them approximately $65m

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Former MoMA chairman’s oddball art goes under the hammer

William Lieberman’s eclectic holdings yielded bargains

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MoMA puts collection inventories online

This move will substantially increase the accessibility of it's collections

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MoMA creates first permanent curatorial post for Latin American art

The museums owns around 3,000 works of Latin American art