Hear from Neuberger Museum of Art Director Tracy Fitzpatrick about the topics that inform and inspire the team responsible for bringing the Museum’s exhibitions and programs to life.

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  • Roy R. Neuberger, founding patron, Neuberger Museum of Art

    backstory50: Happy Birthday, Roy!

    This past Sunday, July 21, was the 121st anniversary of Roy R. Neuberger’s birthday. This week it seems fitting to focus on one of the most wonderful sets of objects in the Neuberger’s collection, what we lovingly call the “Birthday Books.”

  • Elizabeth Catlett, Homage to Black Women Poets - Study (1984), Cast Bronze

    backstory50: Catlett x 2

    So, right now we have a work on view that is in two places at one time—Elizabeth Catlett’s study Homage to Black Women Poets (1984). OK, it’s not really visible in two places, but the object is a part of both The Making of a Museum: 50 Years and Reflection / Refraction … although it’s only physically on view in the latter.

  • Installation image of Laura Anderson Barbata's Nuestra historia no se encuentra en un libro [Our history Is Not Found in a Book], 2021

    backstory50: In the public eye

    Do you remember these hammocks? I do. Laura Anderson Barbata’s Nuestra historia no se encuentra en un libro [Our history Is Not Found in a Book] was one of the first outdoor sculpture projects I saw when I arrived on the Purchase College campus many years ago. I didn’t realize immediately that it was a sculpture project... which is one of the most interesting things to me about public art in general.

  • An abstract painting using light and dark. Background is white on top, black on bottom with 4 peaks. There are 8 totem-style motifs split in

    backstory50: Artist as Curator

    Many years ago, when I was Chief Curator at the Neuberger, I was thinking about putting together an exhibition of the work of Forrest Bess. We have a wonderful painting of his work in our collection entitled Before Man, which was purchased by Roy R. Neuberger from the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1978 and donated to the Neuberger in 1986.

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