It’s Alive! A Centuryof Animation fromthe Collection

Now on view at MoMA Exhibitions, *It’s Alive: A Century of Animation from the Collection* surveys how animation has moved through modern art over the last hundred years. Drawing from MoMA’s holdings, it places early experiments alongside later film and video works, treating animation as a tool for abstraction, satire, and storytelling rather than a genre apart. In New York, where MoMA helped shape the canon of moving-image art, the show reads like an institutional self-portrait. One clear takeaway is how often innovation comes from constraint: short runtimes, limited means, and handmade techniques.