The Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art The Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art at NYU comprises some 700 works produced by artists from countries as diverse as Japan, Thailand, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, and Israel. Turkish holdings are among the particular strengths of the collection, with works numbering 95 by artists such as Nevzat Akoral, Filiz Başaran, Aliye Berger, Nurullah Berk, Şükriye Dikmen, Abidin Elderoğlu, Devrim Erbil, Cemil Eren, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Mehmet Güleryüz, Orhan Peker, Adnan Turani and Fahrelnissa Zeid. Abby Weed Grey speaks on the unusual collection while traveling in Asia and the Middle East in the 1960s and ’70s: “I didn’t look for miniaturists or gem setters; in Iran, I didn’t look for rugmakers. In many places, I didn’t know where to look or exactly what to look for, but whatever it was going to be, it had to express the response of a contemporary sensibility to contemporary circumstances. In every country, I asked ‘Where are your working artists? What are they doing? How are they breaking with the past to cope with the present?’” University Museum as Lab: NYUs Grey Art Gallery Lynn Gumpert Thursday April 24 2014, 18:30
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