Narrator: Here Magritte depicts himself in the act of painting. He looks at an egg but conjures a bird on the canvas. Curator, Anne Umland: Magritte, from 1932 on, had set out to apply a new method of ...

Various Artists, Werner Drewes, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, Ilya Bolotowsky, Harry Bowden, Byron Browne, Giorgio Cavallon, Arthur N. Christie, Herzl Emanuel, Balcomb Greene ...

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“YOU GOTTA BE ABLE TO THINK LIKE JOHN COLTRANE TO DO WHAT I AM DOING IN PAINTING: THE LIGHT EXIST IN SHEETS, JUST LIKE COLTRANE TOLD ME.” —Jack Whitten, 2006, as quoted in Notes from the Woodshed, p.

Narrator: In the 1980s, Whitten began using plaster of Paris to make molds from everyday objects. Artist, Jack Whitten: I'm doing things like making molds of manhole covers, molds taken from the ...

Artist, Jack Whitten: You should make your own tool. Don’t just depend upon the brush. That’s why I don’t even use the word to “paint” anymore. I say, I “make” a painting. I’ve changed the verb from ...

Odessa Roberts Matsubara joined MoMA in 2017 as the Director of Human Resources and was promoted to Chief Human Resources Officer in 2018. In this role, she leads a team that supports the Museum in ...

Artist, Marlene Dumas: This painting started with myself, or me looking at myself, in this sort of awkward position of being, you know, the blonde, friendly, spontaneous woman—which is an old problem ...

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Artist, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The ‘80s was the Reagan era, then AIDS come in and all my friends are dying. But I never want my art to just be locked in as a kind of isolated gay thing. The art is ...