ART For Proof of the Power of Collaboration, Look No Further than Joan Jonas It’s not just you—the 87-year-old visual artist is having a major moment in New York and...
DESIGN Regenerative Materials Are a Reminder to Be Optimistic A show at the Museum of Modern Art eschews doom-and-gloom sustainability narratives to reveal the...
ART Suzanne Ciani and Sarah Davachi Come Together at MoMA As the museum continues programming work that expands the relationship between sound and art, the...
ARCHITECTURE Imagining the Future of New York’s Civic Spaces A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art highlights a dozen public architecture projects that...
ART Refik Anadol’s Swirling Abstractions Will Soon Illuminate MoMA The Turkish-American digital artist plugged more than 138,000 images and text materials from two...
ART Barbara Kruger Is More Relevant Than Ever Four decades into her career, the virality of her work in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s overturning...
CULTURE CLUB At MoMA, the Art Students League of New York Toasts Resilience On November 8, the Art Students League of New York hosted its Annual Fundraising Gala at the Museum
ARCHITECTURE Gregory Ain’s Long-Lost MoMA House Gets Rediscovered A glass-walled home by Gregory Ain that was once exhibited on the Museum of Modern Art’s rooftop...
Architecture Architects Ask MoMA to Remove Philip Johnson’s Name Over Fascist Ties The architect's problematic political inclinations are well-documented: he personally translated...
Partnership An Esoteric Publisher Pops Up at MoMA’s Flagship Museum Store With a catalogue full of titles blurring the line between art and literature, Siglio is subverting...
The Vanguard Neri Oxman and Sir Norman Foster on the Future of Design The venturesome Oxman talks experimental materials and lunar habitation with the renowned architect.
Art Curator Alison Gingeras on Revisiting One of the 20th Century’s Key Art Shows Inspired by a MoMA classic, “New Images of Man” at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles shows dozens of...
SURFACE X MOMA DESIGN STORE MoMA Wants You to Get Lost in the Stacks Newly reimagined after a months-long renovation, the flagship Museum Store's new book wall doubles...
SURFACE X MOMA DESIGN STORE How MoMA Design Store Is Inspiring Tomorrow’s Littlest Artists Through the Making with MoMA collection and pop-up, the museum’s shop is giving art-loving kids...
SURFACE X MOMA DESIGN STORE MoMA Design Stores’s Print Shop is a Limited-Time Celebration of Limited-Edition Posters Get your hands on hard-to-find designs from cultural institutions around the world, plus exclusive...
SURFACE X MOMA DESIGN STORE This Tech-Forward Jacket Is Climate Control for Your Body The Mercury Heated Jacket knows your ideal body temperature better than you do.
THE ART ISSUE Feminism, Fine Art, and Beyoncé: The Guerrilla Girls Sound Off In a cultural moment defined by unconscionable treatment of women, we host a round-table discussion
SURFACE X MOMA DESIGN STORE These Artist-Designed Holiday Cards Are Actually Mantle Worthy MoMA’s holiday cards aren't your typical season's greetings.
EVENTS Design Dialogues No. 48 with MoMA Design Store Surface magazine’s digital director, William Hanley, spoke with Kimberlie Birks, Juliet...
SURFACE X MOMA DESIGN STORE An Iconic Desk Lamp is Rethought for the 21st Century Just half the size of a standard desk lamp, Anglepoise's 90 Mini Mini packs a ton of utility into...
SURFACE X MOMA DESIGN STORE This Tech-Savvy Piano Packs a Quiet Presence—and a Powerful Play The Roland Kiyola piano was meticulously designed for the digital age.
Events Design Dialogues No. 42 With MoMA Design Store Surface magazine’s editor-in-chief, Spencer Bailey, spoke with Danny Meyer and Paula Scher about...
Design John Pawson, Barbara Bestor, and 7 Other Top Design Minds Celebrate Achille Castiglioni To honor the 100th year of the Italian legend’s birth, we asked a few of the world’s best...
Surface x MoMA Design Store Don’t Judge This Book by Its Cover British artist Richard Woods puts his signature spin on a delightfully deceptive hardcover.
ART The Artist Who Drew With Computers, Before Computers Were a Thing Vera Molnár, a little-known founding mother of computational art and thinking, will feature in...
Surface x MoMA Design Store How to Digitize Your Drawings in Real Time, Using Actual Paper and Pens The Slate 2+ operates just like a traditional sketchpad, and incorporates digital tools.
Events Design Dialogues No. 39 Surface magazine’s editor-in-chief, Spencer Bailey, spoke with spoke with The Museum of...
Surface x MoMA Design Store Yoshitomo Nara Makes the Coolest Skateboards Embellished with the Japanese artist’s sweet, scrappy girls, these decks stand out from the rest.
Art Ruba Katrib Saw It First The New York-based curator gathered galleries showing emerging artists from around the world for...
Art Why MoMA’s “Items: Is Fashion Modern?” Is Not the Exhibition You Were Expecting Plus, the behind-the-scenes stories of 10 objects in the show—and one more that got away.
Surface x MoMA Design Store You Want the Moon? This Remarkably Detailed Lunar Globe Replicates the Real Thing NASA imagery and expert engineering informed this ingenious lamp, where a ring of LEDs illuminate a
Art Cao Fei at MoMA PS1 The Chinese multimedia artist gets her first American museum solo show and a chance to win over new
art A Japanese Constellation MoMA offers a look at contemporary Japanese architecture with a nod to post-earthquake...
Art Surface’s “Exhibit” Columnist Dan Duray Reports on a MoMA Milestone MoMA celebrates three decades of its annual “New Photography” show with its most expansive...
DESIGN DISPATCH Los Angeles Gets a Balloon Museum, and Other News Plus, Las Vegas bids farewell to the Tropicana, and Salone del Mobile expands to China.
DESIGN DISPATCH A$AP Rocky, Lewis Hamilton, and Pharrell Williams Will Co-Chair the Met Gala, and Other News Plus, Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower encounters another roadblock, and Kim Jones organizes a...
DESIGN DISPATCH Harlem’s Studio Museum Announces an Opening Date for its New Building, and Other News Plus, Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower encounters another roadblock, and Kim Jones organizes a...
DESIGN DISPATCH A-Cold-Wall Founder Samuel Ross Comes Back With a Zara Collaboration, and Other News Plus, Mytheresa acquires Yoox Net-a-Porter and Paul Rudolph's Sanderling Beach Club falls victim to
SURFACE 7 In Los Angeles, Olivia Cognet Crafts a Ceramic Fantasia Plus, a rugged escape rises from Kyoto’s bamboo forests, Block Shop’s snail-shaped brass...