Through the generosity of Beth Rudin DeWoody, the Museum recently acquired a multiple component installation piece made by the artist Vadis Turner, which will be…
Read MoreOne major recent acquisition is Hank Willis Thomas’ series “Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America.” The whole series consists of 82 images, two for…
Read MoreThe Museum recently acquired some great new photography. Much of it will be on view this coming August when we open a new show with…
Read MoreSarah Baley’s show “Bois” opened at Collette Blanchard Gallery on the Lower East Side last Thursday night and we are very happy to have this…
Read MoreI can’t believe that it’s been more than a year since my last posting on this topic. I guess I got distracted by other tasks….
Read MoreIf Marshall McLuhan were a gypsy and his teacup the art world, the tea leaves would be artists’ books. —Ingrid Sishey (National Arts Guide, vol….
Read MoreThe search for an object to purchase in honor of the soon-to-be-retired Curator of Asian Art began more than eight months before I arrived at…
Read MoreArmed with the “wish list” and approximate budget I described in my previous entries, the team of curators and trustees who were interested in finding…
Read MoreI have been discussing the process of acquiring a new masterpiece for the collection, and in my first installment, I introduced the object, a bronze…
Read MoreLast time I wrote about how we happened to have the money and the initiative to look for a major new acquisition for the Asian…
Read MoreIn my previous entry, I introduced a wonderful object, an Indian bronze of Shiva from the tenth century. I am tracing the way that this…
Read MoreI have been an art museum curator for almost eight years now, and I can tell you that the one aspect of my job that…
Read MoreEarlier this week, we installed two striking new photographs in the Museum’s American Identities galleries on the fifth floor, Soldier Claxton and Soldier Mickelson. They…
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