A new exhibition at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum (GTM) at Queens School, Metropolis College of New York (CUNY), THE Gift: Queens College Collects, on look at from February 23 by means of May well 25, 2023, will discover is effective from the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, QC Manner and Textile Selection, QC Artwork Section, Louis Armstrong Home Museum, Queens College Library, and Daghlian Selection of Chinese Art.
A community opening reception will just take position on Thursday, February 23, from 6 to 8 pm at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. Remember to RSVP for the opening by February 20, 2023 by emailing [email protected]. Pay a visit to www.gtmuseum.org for museum hours, location, and directions to campus.
Historically, Queens College or university commenced officially attaining artwork and artifacts from 1937 on to be utilized as a instructing selection for pupils and college interested in examining art and substance tradition. This shaped, in aspect, the main of GTM launched in 1981, producing in excess of time into the world course establishment the museum is nowadays, and keeping the major assortment in CUNY of over 7,000 performs of artwork and artifacts. As a training museum (and the only museum of its form in Queens), GTM makes chosen objects available to learners for a distinctive “hands-on” practical experience in the museum itself or in its artwork storage facility. Additionally, GTM holds the Daghlian Selection of Chinese Art supplied to the college or university in 2012, spanning 5,000 several years of Chinese historical past in about 1,600 objects in a wide range of media such as ceramic, wooden, stone, jade, textiles, paper, ivory, and bronze. This in depth, didactic assortment is used to illustrate Chinese art and artwork historical past, as very well as Chinese background, tradition, anthropology, faith, philosophy and language.
GTM will highlight little found functions by 20th century and modern day artists Louise Nevelson, Hale Woodruff, Alberto Burri, Robert Kipniss, Andy Warhol, Miguel Conde, Robert Wilson, Pat Lasch, Marcel Duchamp, as effectively as historical operates by Lesser Uri, Antoine-Louis Bayre, an Egyptian sarcophagus fragment illustrating the Reserve of the Dead, and panels from a 16th century French devotional shrine depicting the Deposition specified by Metropolitan Museum of Artwork donors Mr. and Mrs. Jack Linsky.
Other collections contain the Louis Armstrong House Museum specified to QC in 1991, comprising the contents of Louis and Lucille’s household and archives, of which selections from 500 property recorded reel-to-reel tape containers and 86 scrapbooks collaged by Louis will be on display.
Financial loans from the QC Style and Textiles Assortment established in 1950 incorporate options from more than 2,000 costume and textile merchandise from 19th century working day dresses to 20th century West African dashikis to couture evening have on by designers these types of as Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, and Mary McFadden. Some notable donors contain the Brooklyn and Metropolitan Museums, Jayne Wrightsman, Kate McNally Cote, Marie-Josee Kravis, and William Lipton.
Financial loans of artworks from QC Library and Particular Collections & Archives Division together with 20th century modernist is effective on paper by Man Ray, Pierre Bonnard, Reginald Marsh, Jacques Villon, and Grant Wooden, an oil on canvas by Fairfield Porter, as properly as artists’ guides by Yoko Ono, LaMonte Younger, and Nam June Paik, Kara Walker, John Baldessari, Guerrilla Girls, billy o’callaghan, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Barbara Kruger.
QC Art Department retains vital modern-day and present-day prints by Jose Bedia, Phillip Guston, K.O.S. and Tim Rollins, and H.C. Westermann.
THE Present: Queens University Collects is funded in component by the Friends of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Kupferberg Middle for the Arts, and Queens School, CUNY. Instructional courses and initiatives are supported in section by the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Basis, and general public cash from the NYC Section of Cultural Affairs in partnership with NY City Council.
About the Godwin-Ternbach Museum
The Godwin-Ternbach Museum, a component of Queens College’s Kupferberg Center for the Visible and Doing Arts, provides up to date and historic exhibitions and applications that offer thrilling educational alternatives and aesthetic encounters to the higher education neighborhood and citizens of Queens, Manhattan, and Long Island. As the only museum in the CUNY system, and the only encyclopedic collection of artwork and artifacts in the borough housing around 7,000 worldwide objects that date from ancient to modern day occasions, the museum introduces site visitors to functions they could not if not experience. Virtual and in-particular person systems complement and interpret the artwork on view to serve the wants and passions of area and global communities. All exhibitions and plans are free.
About Queens College
Queens College enjoys a nationwide track record for its liberal arts and sciences and pre-experienced programs. With its graduate and undergraduate levels, honors applications, and study and internship alternatives, the college or university helps its pupils notice their potential in many means, assisted by an accessible, award-profitable college. Situated on a gorgeous, 80-acre campus in Flushing, the university has been cited by Princeton Review as a person of America’s Greatest Benefit Faculties for five consecutive many years, as nicely as being rated a U.S. Information and Environment Report Very best Faculty and Forbes Journal Finest Value College or university many thanks to its excellent teachers, generous financial help packages, and somewhat small prices. Stop by our homepage (www.qc.cuny.edu) to understand much more.
Photo Credit score: Alberto Burri Muffa T, 1952 collage, plastic, cement, resin, and oil on canvas Assortment Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Reward of David G. Thompson, 58.21