backstory: Here we are
There are moments when the world feels especially loud. This is one of those moments.
As planning for this season’s exhibitions began, we could not have anticipated how quickly, and how urgently, questions of power, voice, and visibility would move to the center of everyday conversation.
But here we are.
In our galleries this spring, the Neuberger has brought together artists who engage those questions in different ways through protest, storytelling, and acts of construction and disruption. Some works take to the street. Others invite participation. All of them ask us to look more closely at the systems that shape what we see, and whose voices are heard.
From Nicolás de Jesús’s bold street banners to the interactive environment of Studio at Neuberger by Tobias Putrih, from the evolving dialogue of Then and Now to the luminous presence of Stephen Antonakos’s Proscenium, the exhibitions on view offer multiple ways into a shared set of concerns.
Opening April 1, Guerrilla Girls: Food for Thought brings the work of the anonymous feminist collective into that conversation. For more than four decades, the Guerrilla Girls have used data, humor, and unmistakable visual language to challenge inequity in the art world and beyond, reminding us that activism can be as incisive as it is creative.
Sometimes the most urgent conversations don’t happen in the headlines. They happen in spaces like this, where art makes room to question, to challenge, and to imagine something different.
Warmly,
Tracy Fitzpatrick
Director, Neuberger Museum of Art
P.S. Keep an eye on your inbox. We’ll be sharing more very soon about a special Guerrilla Girls moment in the works.
