Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) tickets and tours

New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is the place to see such modern artists as Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Elizabeth Murray and Cindy Sherman. The collections include photography, architecture, design, film, media and even performance art.

The museum’s best-known piece is perhaps Picasso’s Les Demoiselles D’Avignon (1907), showing five women in a Barcelona brothel. It’s one of art history’s most discussed paintings, and one which even Picasso’s contemporaries found difficult to like or even understand. Why are some women apparently wearing masks? Is it actually finished? In this painting, Picasso both summarises and rejects the history of art so far.

One of the museum’s most unusual exhibits is the @ symbol. We know it well today, but it may have existed since the sixth or seventh industry in bookkeeping documents. Only in 1971 did American Internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson choose it for addressing emails. MoMA has it on the wall of the Architecture and Design galleries. Or does it? Who owns the ‘real’ one?