MODERNISMS: IRANIAN, TURKISH, AND INDIAN HIGHLIGHTS FROM NY'S ABBY WEED GREY COLLECTION

The Grey Art Gallery, New York University's museum, houses an unparalleled collection of modern Asian and Middle Eastern art. The very first exhibition to combine paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings from the 1960s and early 70s from Iran. Turkey, and India, Modernisms sheds new light on how artists drew inspiration from their respective heritages while also engaging in global discourses around key issues of modernity.
At a time when few Americans were attuned to contemporary art from the Middle East and Asia, Abby Weed Grey (1902-1983) assembled a collection of some 700 works.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, she graduated from Vassar College in 1924 and, at the age of 27, married Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Grey. Mrs. Grey spent the next twenty seven years as an army wife, traveling across the county while her husband, without her invested in railway stocks and bonds. Upon his death in 1956 she moved back to St. Paul with a seizable inheritance. Feeling responsible to use her fortune wisely, she established the Ben and Abby Grey Foundation in 1961 with the express purpose of collecting art From non-Westem counties.

NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, November 15, 2021 - February 5, 2022

For more information see https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/events/2021/november/modernisms.html