Shared Visions

Another bright spot of the pandemic time has been the rebranding and strength of our Shared Visions program of loans from collectors. Formerly called Masterworks on Loan, Shared Visions was rebranded in 2020, with the new name emphasizing jointly the sharing of artists’ visions, and the sharing of their work by our lenders. In the past two years, brilliant works by artists such as Lorna Simpson, Ruth Asawa, Gerhard Richter, Mark Bradford, Yayoi Kusama, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, Jenny Saville, Julie Mehretu, Egon Schiele, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, Theaster Gates, Pablo Picasso, Alex Katz, Louise Bourgeois, and many more have graced our galleries. I walk our galleries regularly with visiting artists, colleagues from other museums, art gallery owners, and contemporary art lovers of all sorts, and they routinely express amazement and excitement at the work they see here. Thanks to this program, our students can experience firsthand many of the most significant artists of our time and of the modern era. And as the pandemic drove home to all of us, seeing art on a computer screen just isn’t the real deal.