Exhibitions

Now on view:

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  Isaac Julien: Western Union: Small Boats

  ON VIEW: February 12-May 31, 2020
  
  This spring, the Neuberger Museum of Art will feature one of artist Isaac Julien’s most important works, Western Union: Small Boats, a video installation that focuses on journeys across the Mediterranean by so-called “clandestines” who leave Libya to escape war and famine. 
  
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  Pier Paolo Pasolini: Subversive Prophet

  ON VIEW: February 12-May 31, 2020
  
  Outspoken and subversive, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian, 1922–1975) was a prolific poet, writer, and film director.  This two-part exhibition explores his reception in the Americas as well as his powerful creative output.
  
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  Recent Acquisitions

  ON VIEW: January 29-May 17, 2020
  
  The paintings, drawings, sculpture, and mixed media works on view, acquired by the Neuberger over the past two years, attest to the range and vitality of the Museum’s growing permanent collection.
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  Calder from the Collection

  ON VIEW: January 29-May 17, 2019

  The Neuberger Museum is delighted to share a selection of works in its collection by Alexander Calder (1898-1976), a favorite modernist whose art has inspired generations of artists and museum-goers. 

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  African Art and Culture: Selections from the Collection

  ONGOING

  African Art and Culture presents objects from the permanent collection that represent the artistic production of over thirty societies spanning a broad geographical area stretching from Mali in the west to Mozambique in the east. Offering an introduction to the richness and complexity of these artistic traditions, such objects nevertheless illustrate but a small fraction of African culture.

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  Then and Now:  Modern and Contemporary Selections  from the Permanent Collection

  ONGOING

  This exhibition includes a rotation of works by some of the museum’s most beloved artists installed with contemporary art from the collection.

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  Open Classroom

  ONGOING

  The Open Classroom at the Neuberger Museum of Art brings timely academic dialogues into the curatorial space through the study of and engagement with the Museum’s permanent collection.