The Museum will mark this anniversary with a striking new installation of its renowned permanent collection. Working in collaboration with Los Angeles-based architects Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena, the curatorial staff has redesigned the Bernoudy Permanent Collection Gallery to shed new light on many of the Museum’s most important artworks.
Selections from the collection are presented in three new thematic sections — Nature | Culture, Abstract | Real, and Body | Self — that reconsider the history of modern and contemporary art as one comprised of multiple, often intersecting narratives. Together, these sections challenge popular notions of progressive development from figuration to abstraction; investigate the political and national investment in landscapes; and explore depictions of the human figure that focus on shifting conceptions of identity.
It has been a truly amazing five years, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for being a part of this effort. I hope you continue to engage with the Museum as it grows into the future.
See you in the galleries!
Sabine Eckmann, PhD
William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator
