Why Van Gogh's Starry Night Still Draws Millions to MoMA
On the enduring magnetism of the most visited painting at the Museum of Modern Art, and what it reveals about our collective need for beauty in turbulence.
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On the enduring magnetism of the most visited painting at the Museum of Modern Art, and what it reveals about our collective need for beauty in turbulence.
A selective guide to the strongest shows across Manhattan and Brooklyn, from MoMA's current exhibitions to Chelsea gallery openings you should not miss.
Two of the best museums in New York, two radically different philosophies. A practical and philosophical comparison for visitors with limited time.
New York is a city that has always understood the power of seeing. In every borough, on every block, someone is making something, and someone else is trying to understand it. Artes exists for that second person. We write for museum-goers and gallery-hoppers, for the curious tourist standing before a painting they cannot look away from, and for the lifelong New Yorker who has walked past the Museum of Modern Art a thousand times and still finds something new inside.
In this issue, Clara Monteiro traces the century-long pull of MoMA's Starry Night, Daniel Asher maps the NYC art exhibits worth seeing right now, and Yuki Tanabe takes on the impossible but irresistible question: MoMA or the Met? We hope these essays are useful, and more than useful, that they send you somewhere to look at something extraordinary.
— Clara Monteiro, Editor