NYU’s Grey Art Museum Celebrates the First Art Dealer to Focus Solely on Emerging Artists Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde October 1, 2024–March 1, 2025 The second exhibition at 18 Cooper Square explores the contributions of Berthe Weill, a woman gallerist who nurtured key figures of French modernism. […]
[Download Press Kit] Installation view of Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 at the Grey Art Museum, New York University, Designed by Ennead Architects. Photo: David Heald
After nearly 50 years as the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, we are delighted to officially announce our evolution into the Grey Art Museum, NYU—now located at 18 Cooper Square!
AMERICANS IN PARIS: ARTISTS WORKING IN POSTWAR FRANCE, 1946–1962 [Download Press Release] (NEW YORK, NY, February 29, 2024)—Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962, the first major exhibition to examine the historical impact of the expatriate art scene in Paris after World War II, opens on Saturday, March 2, 2024, at the Grey […]
[Download Press Release] After nearly a half century on Washington Square, the Grey Art Gallery, New York University’s fine arts museum, will reopen in a purpose-designed, larger, and more visible space at 18 Cooper Square in lower Manhattan on Friday, March 2, 2024. With this transformational move, the Grey will be renamed the Grey […]
NEW HOME FOR THE GREY ART GALLERY, NYU’S FINE ARTS MUSEUM NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, a Downtown Jewel Among NYC’s Art Museums, Will Move to a Larger Space in Cooper Square, East Village Contact: Aliese Andersen Volk greyartgallery@nyu.edu 212/998-6782 [Download Press Release] The Grey Art Gallery, New York University’s widely admired fine arts museum, will […]
EXHIBITION FOCUSES ON NEW YORK UNIVERSITY’S LANDMARK ART COLLECTION Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection March 21–June 17, 2022 Extended through fall 2022 Contact: Allegra Favila allegra.favila@nyu.edu 212/998-6789 [Download Press Release] The Grey Art Gallery at New York University is pleased to present Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection, the museum’s […]
WORKS ON PAPER FROM THE NYU ART COLLECTION Too little known is the Grey Art Gallery’s permanent art collection. New York University students, faculty, and staff might be familiar with some parts of it—over 800 works from the collection are installed throughout the campus. The collection dates back to 1958, when Department of Art Education […]
March 27, 2020—We are profoundly sad to announce that the upcoming exhibition, Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography, is now cancelled. Read the full announcement from Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Gallery, here. EXHIBITION REDISCOVERS RADICAL IMAGES FROM EARLY 20TH-CENTURY FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography April 21–July 11, […]
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s explores the development of abstraction in the Arab world via paintings, sculpture, and works on paper dating from the 1950s through the 1980s. By looking critically at the history and historiography of mid-20th century abstraction, the exhibition considers art from North Africa and West Asia as integral to the discourse on global modernism. At its heart, the project raises a fundamental art historical question: How do we study abstraction across different contexts and what models of analysis do we use?