Exhibitions
Phased Reopening: Campus first. Still closed to the public.
Open to the campus community only on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday from 12pm - 5pm.
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The Neuberger began a phased reopening in late February in order to support in-person, course-related activities for Purchase College faculty and students. Individuals from the campus community may visit the museum W-F from noon to 5pm; More card and daily COVID screen submission required. Class visit requests should be submitted a minimum of one week in advance to nma.education@purchase.edu.
Watch these pages for news of our re-opening to the general public. In the meantime, continue to experience the Neuberger from home with our weekly suggestions for virtual events and weekly activities at NEU To Do and NEU To Do for Kids.
Currently On View for the campus community:
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Then and Now: Modern and Contemporary Selections from the Permanent Collection
ON VIEW: Spring 2021
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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African Art and Culture: Selections from the Collection
ON VIEW: Spring 2021
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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Color and Motion, Ideas and Dreams: Modern and Contemporary Caribbean and South American Art from the Collection
ON VIEW: Spring 2021
“A delight for both the eyes and the mind,” this new show explores the creativeness and inventiveness of contemporary Caribbean, Latin and South American artists. See a variety of cultures and artistic trends that date back to the 1960s in the sculptures, paintings, photographs and prints on view. -
Open Classroom Gallery: Concentrated Power
ON VIEW: Spring 2021
Barbara Ségal’s Dash (1994), a life-sized marble mimicry of a laundry detergent bottle, showcases the artist’s technical mastery while also playing with high and low imagery and material in the late twentieth century.
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ConnectiveCollective
ONGOING PROJECT: Spring 2021
A series of artists talks, projects, and workshops looking at healing, justice, and the power of listening.
Upcoming exhibitions:
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NEU Picks: A Collaborative Project
ON VIEW: Spring 2021
NEU Picks is a special project drawn from the museum’s permanent collection of over 6.000 objects. Communities close to the NEU were invited to select their favorite work of art and tell us why they love it. -
Lesley Dill: Rush
ON VIEW: Summer 2021
Lesley Dill’s Rush (2006-07) is a visually dazzling, ambitious site responsive work that covers a 20’ x 60’ wall in the Neuberger Museum’s Theater Gallery. This immersive installation is an enormous collage of hundreds of interconnected animal and human figures culled from world spiritual traditions and representing love, death, transcendence, and other themes.
EXHIBITION TOURS
No private exhibition tours are being reserved until the museum has reopened to the public. Please check back for more information.