upcoming exhibitions

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary is an exciting exhibition featuring 50 contemporary artists from 17 countries who transform discarded, commonplace, or valueless manufactured and mass-produced objects into extraordinary works of art. Second Lives includes new commissions, site-specific installations, and works that have never been exhibited in the United States. The works are created from gun triggers, spools of thread, tires, hypodermic needles, dog tags, old eyeglasses, and telephone books, among others. Second Lives highlights the creative processes that repurpose these objects, exploring the transformation of the ordinary into the extraordinary and stimulating debate on function, value, and identity. ...learn more

Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry

The Museum of Arts & Design  inaugurates the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery in its new home at 2 Columbus Circle home with Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry. The exhibition offer visitors the unique opportunity to see an exceptional assembly of works from the Museum's collection. The remarkably inventive artists extend the range of materials beyond precious gems and metals to demonstrate that they can make superb jewelry from paper, rubber, plastic, found objects of all descriptions and even pig’s intestines. Featuring over 200 objects from the pioneering works of the 1940s to the cutting edge pieces made this year, the exhibition provides a dazzling overview of the evolution of contemporary art jewelry.

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Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection

Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection presents approximately 250 works from the Museum of Arts and Design’s permanent collection. For the first time in the Museum’s 52-year history, dedicated collections galleries introduce visitors to the phenomenal ceramic, glass, wood, metal, fiber, and mixed media works in the Museum’s collections. Many of the pieces are on view for the first time.

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