Currently on view
Currently on view
Hello Friend: Staff favorites
Mid-January–March 22, 2025Hello Friend: Staff favorites goes behind the scenes with artwork selected by CUAM staff. When working at a museum, staff encounter art every day during class visits, in storage, and on the walls. For our Staff Favorites exhibition, staff chose some of their favorite artwork and provided interpretive texts.
Hello Friend
Mid-January–June, 2025Friendships between artists inspire creativity, spur collaborations, and foster networks of support. Featuring artwork from CUAM’s collection, Hello Friend highlights the friendships between artists who lived and worked in shared creative circles in the mid to late 1900s.Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana, Jim Rosenquist and Jack Youngerman lived and worked in the same neighborhood in Manhattan, while Joan Brown, Elizabeth Murray, Manuel Neri and Deborah Remington were part of an artistic...
Better Days
On view August 20–October 26, 2024Reopened February 2025, on view through May 27, 2025What can art offer in difficult times? In this exhibition, artists respond to historical moments when uncertainty prevails and social connections fray. In many artworks on view, artists imagine a better world, encouraging viewers to find silver linings. Others meeting challenging times with challenging content. Better Days is organized around the following themes, which invite multiple, intersecting interpretations: gather...