MoMA's Magazine

Erin Williams visited MoMA just before the Museum closed for the health and safety of New York City during the global coronavirus crisis. For Drawn to MoMA, in which artists share their own visions of life at the Museum, Williams reflects on her experience seeing Marlene Dumas’s Chlorisis (Love Sick) (1994) in the galleries, and the medical research rabbit hole it led her down. “A disease is not simply a fact; a fixed or passive thing. Like art, illness is specific to time and place.” She also wonders how our new form of isolation will be seen by artists in the future.