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Thinking is Form. The Drawings of Joseph Beuys, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1993 [Benoît Waterkeyn. Art: © ARS, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn]

Authors: Ann Temkin, Bernice Rose, Dieter Koepplin

Exhibitions: MoMA, New York, NY, February 21 – May 4, 1993; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, October 10, 1993 – January 2, 1994

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“John Waters on why he hates hammers”, MoMA & BBC for The Way I See It, December 5, 2019 

In this episode of our new radio series collaboration with the BBC, "The Way I See It," filmmaker and provocateur John Waters looks at a painting by one of his favorite artists: Lee Lozano’s "Untitled" (1963)—an eight-foot painting of a hammer. Waters discusses this powerful, emotional, threatening, and phallic work with Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture.

Find "The Way I See It" on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000...

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RED AND GREEN AND BLUE MORE OR LESS. Works and documents of Lawrence Weiner, Herbert Foundation – Loods, October 27, 2025 – June 28, 2026

«Language is just another material to make visual art. Just because you paint a house with paint doesn't mean it can no longer be used to make a painting, and just because you’re in a garage doesn't make you a car. Language should be just as versatile a material once it enters into the palette of contemporary art as any other thing has entered.» ― Lawrence Weiner in conversation with Ann Temkin and John Ravenal, 1994

(image: «Avalanche», No. 4, Spring 1972, Edited by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp, Kineticism Press, New York, NY, 1972. Mast Books, New York, NY)

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Spend Some Time With the Museum of Modern Art’s Miraculous New Archive

"A remarkable project... browsing through it will reward many more people than just scholars." The Atlantic explores our newly-launched exhibition history project, featuring an online archive of installation photographs and other materials dating back to 1929.

(via Spend Some Time With the Museum of Modern Art’s Miraculous New Archive)

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Beige Walls And Dirty Couches: A MoMA Curator Critiques Its Very First Show

Our chief curator of painting and sculpture Ann Temkin assesses the museum's first-ever exhibition for Co.Design. You can now browse MoMA's exhibition history and related materials at mo.ma/history.

(via Beige Walls And Dirty Couches: A MoMA Curator Critiques Its Very First Show)

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"When he finished it, he said, 'This is a painting for The Museum of Modern Art.'" 

Curator Ann Temkin shares stories about the late artist Ellsworth Kelly with Artforum.

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Artist Ellsworth Kelly Bucked Trends With Enduring Vision

It took the art world some time to grasp what Ellsworth Kelly was up to. But the American artist, who died on Sunday at 92 years old, never swerved from his singular vision.

"He is a modern master." MoMA curator Ann Temkin spoke about Ellsworth Kelly with The Wall Street Journal.

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For over 50 years, WSJ. Magazine’s 2015 Art Innovator has pushed boundaries with his dramatic sculptures and drawings that explore gravity, space and time

For over 50 years, WSJ. Magazine’s 2015 Art Innovator has pushed boundaries with his dramatic sculptures and drawings that explore gravity, space and time. With a new gallery exhibit on the horizon, his latest work takes shape on an even greater scale.

“He keeps moving sculpture in ways we’ve never seen." MoMA Director Glenn Lowry and curator Ann Temkin weigh in on artist Richard Serra.