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Museum Collections

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), Coney Island, New York, 1946.

MoMA to Offer Works From Photography Collection in Sales at Christie’s

Christie's auction house will be offering over 400 works from the Museum of Modern Art's photography collections in a series of sales.
By Alanna Martinez
Beirut's corniche in July 2006.

Private Museum for Arab Art Slated for 2020 Opening in Beirut

The Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation has announced plans to build a 10,000-15,000-square-meter institution to house its 4,000-piece Modern and Contemporary Arab art collection.
By Alanna Martinez
SFMOMA has created a texting service that sends uses images of art from its collections based on keyword requests.

SFMOMA Will Text You Art Based on Your Mood

In an effort to make more of its collection available to the public, the museum has created a text messaging service which serves-up works based on users' interests.
By Alanna Martinez
An object from Puebla/Central Mexico and dated to 900-1200 CE, featured in the "Fascination with Fauna" exhibition at San Francisco's Mexican Museum.

Report Claims 1,917 Artifacts in SF Mexican Museum Collection Cannot Be Authenticated

By Alanna Martinez
Coco Chanel's 1925 "Little Black Dress," from the collections of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.

Google’s Interactive ‘We Wear Culture’ Site Invites You to Explore Fashion History

By Alanna Martinez
Gordon Strong Automobile Objective and Planetarium, Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland. Project, 1924–25. Perspective.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Archives Still Hold Mysteries Left to Solve

By Alanna Martinez
Long view of London by Wenceslaus Hollar (1647).

London’s River Thames Has Been a Hot Spot for Lost Art for Centuries

By Alanna Martinez
Tile, Syria, Damascus, about 1600, Fritware, underglaze-painted, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The Next Big Thing in Design Inspiration Is Museum Collections

By Alanna Martinez
A portrait of the French artist Orlan by Fabrice Lévêque, (1997).

Orlan Loses Suit Against Lady Gaga, Folding Bike Added to Museum Collection

By Alanna Martinez
Fritz Koenig's Sphere, currently on view in Battery Park.

WTC ‘Sphere’ Sculpture to Return Home, National Poo Museum to Go on Tour

By Alanna Martinez
A view of the Max Mara celebration of the opening of The Whitney Museum Of American Art at its new location on April 24, 2015 in New York City.

Whitney Museum to Reinstall Collection, Hauser & Wirth LA to Keep Graffiti—and More

By Alanna Martinez
The new Tate Modern seen rising behind the museum's iconic Turbine Hall. (Photo: Tate)

A Bigger and Better Tate Modern to Open in June With Louise Bourgeois Show

By Alanna Martinez
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Met Plans Modern Wing Expansion, Sotheby’s Moves Spring Sales—and More

By Alanna Martinez
The Museum of Modern Art.

MoMA Remixes Its Collection, New World Record for Indian Art, and More

By Alanna Martinez
A boat carrying tourists arrives at Ellis Island after it was re-opened to the public on October 28, 2013 in New York City. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

Historic Artifacts Return to Ellis Island for the First Time Since Hurricane Sandy

By Alanna Martinez
Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950, (1950). (Photo: MoMA)

MoMA Rehangs the Collection to Make Room for Picasso, Showcase Pollock

By Alanna Martinez
The Mother of Dragons, depicted by an unknown illuminator, about 1240 - 1250. (Photo: J. Paul Getty Museum)

The Getty Museum is Recapping ‘Game of Thrones’ Episodes With Medieval Art

By Alanna Martinez
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