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Scholar Alexandra Tsay discusses the influence of Kazakh ornament in the work of Kazakhstani artist Lidiya Blinova (1948–1996) titled Finger Ornament (1995). Read more here: post.moma.org/haptic-entangl…

Head over to post to read reflections from the 2026 C-MAP Africa research trip to Morocco—tracing artistic networks, pedagogies, and encounters across Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier, and Tétouan. #CMAPAfrica #GlobalArtHistory #ArtResearch #Morocco post.moma.org/c-map-africa-i…

Tricky Terms, Coming Together: Arianna Mercado, David Morris, and Wing Chan and Carlos Quijon, Jr. in Conversation post.moma.org/tricky-terms-c… #asiaartarchive #afterall #ruangrupa

What if the “School of the Sign” was never a school, but a conceptual field? This text by Lydia Haddag revisits Algerian art history to examine how artists transformed the Sign into a site of aesthetic and political inquiry. #AlgerianArt #ArtHistory #GlobalModernism #Postcolonial #Decolonization #ModernArt #VisualCulture post.moma.org/from-ornament-…

In 1974, Senegalese artist Younousse Seye discovered her painting Mame Coumba Bang had been slashed at Dakar’s Musée dynamique. This essay reconstructs the lost work through its defacement—exposing gendered and racialized tensions in Senegal’s postindependence art world. Read the full essay: post.moma.org/a-painting-in-… #YounousseSeye #ModernArtSenegal #ArtHistory #PostIndependence #PanAfricanism

“Art cannot just make us feel represented. It can’t only give us images of Dalit women that confirm what we already know. It also has to push us to ask, “What do we allow Dalit women to do?”” #Mumbai #Artandthepolitical #illustration #ShrujanaNiranjaniShridhar #MayaVarma @post at MoMA post.moma.org/what-do-we-all…

Mourning Against the Archive in Gabrielle Goliath’s Art by Stefanie Jason reflects on grief, photography, and refusal through Berenice 29–39, linking personal loss to the visual regimes of apartheid-era identification and classification in South Africa. Read more: post.moma.org/mourning-again… #GabrielleGoliath #Berenice2939 #NewPhotography #MoMA #Photography #SouthAfrica #ApartheidHistory

Our newest publication: Hanoi Children’s Palace: Nostalgia for the “New Socialist Human” post.moma.org/hanoi-children… is live on #post! post.moma.org

What do the intersections of the body and labour tell us about art education at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, in the long 20th century? Read more here: post.moma.org/laboring-and-l…

How does an artist navigate wars, exile, and the ruptures of modern Egyptian history? Through creatures, constellations, farmers’ fields, and invented mythologies, Evelyn Ashamallah paints a lifetime of memory and imagination. Dive into her remarkable world in our latest feature. post.moma.org/the-harvest-of… #EvelynAshamallah #EgyptianArt #Modernism #ArtHistory #GlobalModernisms

I want to write so my texts don’t sound political or philosophical in general, but I’d rather simplify political and philosophical matters, and things like that, to the point of poetry. —Karlo Kacharava Read more here: post.moma.org/erased-histori…

How do artists shift the political address of their works from the national to the neighborhood? How do artists reconcile with the demands of their immediate locality with the currencies of contemporary art? Malaysian artist and activist Sharon Chin shares her thoughts about art and politics in this conversation with C-MAP Southeast and East Asia Fellow Carlos Quijon, Jr. post.moma.org/matters-of-add…

How does one make sense of the taxonomies of visual culture of Bombay/Mumbai? Read more here: post.moma.org/were-simply-tr…

New essay out! Female Approaches to the Divine: The Marian Representations of Norah Borges, María Izquierdo, and Miriam Inez da Silva / Acercamientos femeninos a lo divino. Las representaciones marianas de Norah Borges, María Izquierdo y Miriam Inez da Silva Read more / Lee aquí: post.moma.org/female-approac…

The Asilah Cultural Moussem, cofounded in 1978 by Melehi, Benaïssa & Maraini, fused murals, music, printmaking & community action. More than a festival, it was a tricontinental platform linking Morocco to Africa, Asia & the Americas. #AsilahMoussem

What does it mean to re-think global institutional models to build a locally embedded cultural center that prioritizes ecological sensitivity, community participation, cultural specificity and living systems of learning and innovation? Read more here: post.moma.org/on-craft-commu… #shrujanlldc

#postArchive How do you find belonging in a new place? Japanese artist Okamoto Tarō developed a sense of emancipation among communities of abstract artists and ethnology scholars when living in Paris. Read more here: post.moma.org/global-resonan… #OkamotoTaro #AbstractArt #Ethnology