I hope you will all be joining us next month for our 50th anniversary celebration events. When we gather in the Theater Gallery on Saturday evening, April 13, to honor Janet Langsam, Fred Wilson, and Lois Bregstein, surrounded by the site-specific painting, Threnody, we will be in one of the largest exhibitions spaces in the region.
Objects from Africa have been on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art since it opened to the public in 1974.
This is one of my favorite stories because it connects our campus to another great institution, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Another of the Neuberger’s great support organizations is the Museum Service Council. The MSC is comprised of devoted art lovers who have volunteered hours and hours of their time to the education of generations of students—from the College and from the community—who have walked through the doors of the Museum.
One the best things about the Neuberger Museum of Art are the people who make up our community. And among the ‘best of the best’ are the leaders who have, for so long now, been a part of our amazing support and advisory group, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art.
Opening today, Cleve Gray’s Threnody is on view again as part of the Museum’s 50th anniversary celebration.
Today’s story is your story to tell.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Roy R. Neuberger’s 1969 founding promised gift. Twenty-nine objects were accessioned by the Neuberger Museum of Art in that year. Since then, the Museum’s collection has grown to comprise nearly 7,000 objects, which have been donated, promised, bequeathed, and purchased.