By Mary Houlihan The new exhibit “Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection” is a survey of art from three nations where vibrant forms of modernism were created in the 1960s and 1970s. The 114 colorful and intriguing works range from Iranian and Turkish artists who explore calligraphy and ornamentation […]
By Justin Curto As happens when it’s winter in Evanston, we’re all sick and tired. That’s why I didn’t give you a column last week — I was in the depths of not-quite-strep-throat, and most campus arts organizations were still waking up from winter break. So, thank god the Block Museum’s new exhibitions opened this […]
By Chadd Scott What is Modern art? Monet, Renoir and Degas? Yes. Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne? Yes. Matisse, Picasso, Kandinsky. Of course. Pollock, de Kooning and Rothko. Naturally. Modern art–the period between the rise of Impressionism in the 1860s through Pop art in the 1960s–has been defined by its titans, their work, their legacies. Read […]
By Chris Miller RECOMMENDED Sixty years ago, Abby Weed Grey began traveling to Iran, Turkey and northern India to collect art. A childless, recently widowed St. Paul housewife, she used her late husband’s small fortune to establish a foundation for “the encouragement of art through the assembling of international collections of art for cultural exchange […]
By Alexandra Chaves For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery will reopen with a physical exhibition on November 15. The show, Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection, includes paintings and sculptures from the 1960s by artists such as Parviz Tanavoli, […]
By Matt Cassidy Calling all aesthetes and art lovers in Abu Dhabi, we have some wonderful news to report to you. One the capital’s favourite art areans, NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) art galleries is unlocking its doors once again to welcome visitors to explore its halls and walls on Monday 15 November. Launching on 15 […]
Abu Dhabi : The NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Art Gallery reopens to the public tomorrow, Monday, November 15, with Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection. This is the first physical exhibition in the Gallery since it moved to virtual programming in Spring of 2020, and will run through to February 5, […]
By Alexandra Chaves At NYUAD Art Gallery, the three art histories of Iran, India and Turkey are drawn together by a rather unlikely character: an American woman named Abby Weed Grey. In the 1960s and 1970s, Grey travelled around the Middle East and Asia, and consequently built an art collection of more than 700 works […]
By Matt Cassidy Undoubtedly art poses many questions, yet the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing periods of lockdown brought to the fore a new set of questions. “It enabled us to think about what art means to people if you aren’t able to gather in person at an exhibition,” says Maya Allison, Executive Director and […]
By Matt Cassidy In what is NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery’s first physical exhibition since the onset of the pandemic, you can explore the works of Abby Weed Grey from her journeys around Iran, Turkey and Iran in the exhibit Modernisms. For more information, visit NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery. Read more