The appointment of Weaver, who led Rice University’s arts center for over 10 years, marks the end of a 14-month search for NYU’s fine arts museum. by Dani Biondi President Linda Mills and Provost Georgina Dopico announced on Tuesday that Alison Weaver, who founded the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, will take […]
The following article was originally published in NYU News on January 27, 2026. NYU President Linda G. Mills and Provost Georgina Dopico today announced the appointment of Alison Weaver, the founding director of the Moody Cener for the Arts at Rice University, as the director of NYU’s cherished Grey Art Museum. She will take up her new duties […]
by Maximilíano Durón New York University announced Tuesday that Alison Weaver will serve as the next director of its Grey Art Museum. She will begin in the role on May 26, after the conclusion of the current academic year. Weaver succeeds Lynn Gumpert, who retired last year and had been in the role since 1997. Weaver comes to […]
by Natasha Clark Note: This story contains the name and image of someone who has died. The legacy of late Aboriginal artist Clifford Possum Jampijinpa, who was exhibiting in New York by the late 1980s, continues this month as Western Desert painting returns to the city. The works of Mr Possum Jampijinpa, also known as […]
by Erin Zhang The city has everything from video game-rendered social commentary to larger-than-life nudes on display in its museums and private foundations this month. Continue Reading
NYU’s Grey Art Museum Presents First U.S. Survey of Australia’s Most Iconic Aboriginal Art Movement Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert January 22–April 11, 2026 Exhibition reflects on the fifty-year history of Papunya Tula Artists, Australia’s oldest Aboriginal-owned arts organization Press Contact Sofeia Eddy | sofeia.eddy@nyu.edu | 212-998-6782 [Download Press Release] […]
Endlessly energetic, the sculptor, who died last year, was often overshadowed by her famous husband, Robert Frank — but the Grey Art Museum brings her to the foreground. by Jillian Steinhauer June Leaf’s artworks are animated by a force that’s easy to see but difficult to describe. They feel thrillingly dynamic — and not just […]
A planet-wide celebration feels fitting for an artist who saw connections everywhere: between paint and photography, art and life, self and surroundings. by Trent Morse The fame came through a deletion. In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg obtained a drawing from Willem de Kooning. And he erased it. At first glance, this seemed like an art-world stunt, a bratty thumbing […]
by Joe Fyfe When I first moved to New York after art school in 1977 I was often asked who my favorite artists were. I said, “June Leaf and Lee Lozano.” I often heard “Lee Lozano is living on the street” in response. The collectors Milton Brutten and Helen Herrick in Philadelphia had a lot […]
by Andrew L. Shea “The secret is not drawing but DANCE.” So declares a work in charcoal on paper by June Leaf included in her current retrospective at NYU’s Grey Art Museum. Titled Drawings in Movement (2020), the piece depicts a circular stage where tiny, naked figures alternately recline, loll, lurch, and sprawl. Though Leaf (1929–2024) made […]