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Latin American curator for MoMA

Luís Perez-Oramas, who currently serves as adjunct curator of drawings at the museum, is the institution’s first curator of Latin American Art

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MoMA completes merger with PS1

“It is like another department at the museum,” says MoMA director Glenn Lowry

MoMA's deaccessioned Picasso on show in France

Bequeathed to the museum by Nelson Rockefeller, the painting was controversially sold in 2013

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MoMA generates $2 billion for New York, says report

Study calculates economic impact of 6.25m visitors over three years since the museum’s reopening in midtown Manhattan

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MoMA acquires Luc Tuymans paintings

The works focus on American conservatism under the Bush administration

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The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish

Shortly before his death in January, William Rubin handed us his manuscript

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The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish: The details

Here we publish an account of the memoirs of the late William S. Rubin, director of the paintings and sculpture department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for 15 years

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Terry Riley to leave MoMA

The head of Architecture and Design will instead focus on his own firm

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MoMA receives 12 Philip Guston paintings

The works form part of a collection gifted to the museum by real estate developer Edward R. Broida

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MoMA appoints new chief curator of drawings

Cornelia H. Butler, previously at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, scores the role

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MoMA reveals restock of its contemporary galleries in yearly rehang

Around 50 new works are on view, including 16 examples never before seen at the museum

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MoMA acquires $25 million Matisse

The plum blossoms painting is one of the artist's last works

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MoMA acquires key Hockney piece

MoMA’s $3 million cup of tea

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New MoMA head of publications

Christopher Hudson follows up Michael Maegraith

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MoMA reshuffles its board

To consecrate the new building, the museum's board has received a massive overhaul

Pinault sells Rauschenberg to MoMA for $30 million

French billionaire has recently sold works by Rothko, Warhol and Mondrian

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MoMA to expand again, but not for a generation

The property was purchased during the expansion project, and includes all the land west of the museum between 53rd and 54th Streets and Sixth Avenue

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MoMA committee to vote on major drawings collection gifted by Judith Rothschild Foundation

The foundation has offered the museum a collection of more than 2,500 drawings by 400 international artists

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Rockefeller gives $100 million to MoMA

The money will go to the museum after his death, with yearly donations scheduled until that time

UBS art goes on show at MoMA

Founder Donald Marron has been instrumental in the acquisition of classic Modern and contemporary art

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Letter: Director argues MoMA is misrepresented

From Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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MoMA's opening parties were as sober as Tanaguchi’s architecture

Riffraff-proofing the festivities involved intense security procedures

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New works in the new MoMA

The museum's expansion has not slowed down their buying

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New York’s famous Museum of Modern Art turns the story of art upside down with its expanded $858 million new building complex

At the hands of Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, the MoMA has become twice its former size

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MoMA reborn with newly expanded building

Taniguchi's addition to the institution has substantially increased the floor space - and the admission prices

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MoMA's sustained deaccessioning continues

The museum is selling paintings by Picasso, Pollock, Léger and De Chirico, among others, at Christie's next month

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MoMA investigated by federal agency over allegations of unfair dismissals

“We think the employees were let go in retaliation for their union activities,” says National Labour Relations Board attorney Don Zavelo

Mona Hatoum is the latest artist to curate an Artist's Choice exhibition at the MoMA

The show is named “Here is elsewhere” since “most of the artists in the exhibition, because of their gender, sexual orientation, colour, or cultural background, speak from a critical position outside the status quo”

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MoMA trustees pledge $260 million

Works from the Museum of Modern Art’s fabled collection continue their world tours for another year