“The Joyless Street” is among the most chopped-up films of the silent era. A restoration at MoMA’s To Save and Project series proves eye-opening.
Category: Museum of Modern Art
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James Barnor Has Photographed Ghana Since the 1940s. He Remembers Everything.
The 96-year-old on postcolonial history, his first camera and the importance of talking to younger artists.
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41 Things That Stuck With Us in 2025
Aunt Gladys. Tyler, the Creator. That sex scene in “The Naked Gun.” These are the things Culture staffers couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
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The Artists Reviving the Legacy of Air Afrique
Plus: a new Manhattan bathhouse, textiles woven from pineapple leaves and more recommendations from T Magazine.
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Sofia Coppola Honored at MoMA Benefit With Elle Fanning, Bill Murray and David Letterman
The Museum of Modern Art’s annual film gala honored the writer and director, attracting a crowd that included Olivia Wilde, Bill Murray and David Letterman.
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MoMA Film Series: Reclaiming New Orleans, 20 Years After Katrina
The Museum of Modern Art’s When the World Broke Open: Katrina and Its Afterlives takes a cinematic look at the city and its people over the past century.
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Rosa Barba Lights Up MoMA With Her Love of Cinema
Rosa Barba’s films, sculptures and performances start with movies and the machines that make them. They end up in the realm of exuberant effects.
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At New Directors/New Films, the Faces Tell the Story
They’re the great cinematic landscape in stories as diverse as “Familiar Touch,” about dementia, and “Timestamp,” about Ukrainian schoolchildren.
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Inside Jack Whitten’s Queens Studio
The space is a window into the mind of the pioneering artist, who saved nearly everything.
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‘Dutchman’: An Electrifying Dance of Death
A newly restored film adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s provocative 1964 play evoking racial and sexual anxiety is showing at the Museum of Modern Art.