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Buffalo AKG Art Museum Unveils Four Years of Acquisitions, Including a Wealth of Computer Art

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  • Apr 13, 2023
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Ahead of its reopening in June, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in New York has revealed the 518 works it has acquired since 2019, the year it closed to add more than 50,000 square feet... Show More

Ahead of its reopening in June, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in New York has revealed the 518 works it has acquired since 2019, the year it closed to add more than 50,000 square feet to its campus.

In the past four years, the museum has significantly bulked up its holdings of computer art—a kind of work that many institutions do not often collect—while also amassing the largest collection of Marisol in the world, with roughly 200 works by her added to its holdings.

The Marisol gift and the purchase of a Yayoi Kusama “Infinity Room” with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden had previously been announced. But the 518 works acquired since 2019 also include a range of works by many of today’s most important artists, from Simone Leigh, who represented the US at the most recent Venice Biennale, to Sin Wai Kin, a nominee for the last edition of the Turner Prize.

There are was also a focus on local artists, with pieces by G. Peter Jemison and Phyllis Thompson entering the collection.

Notably, the museum has stocked up on video art classics, acquiring works such as Dara Birnbaum’s Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978–79), Joan Jonas’s Volcano Saga (1989), and Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975).

“We have a core of great works of media art in the collection, and we started acquiring media art relatively early,” said Cathleen Chaffee, the museum’s chief curator, in an interview. “We really hadn’t acquired a number of those classic works, and we thought it would be a missed opportunity not to share those with our audiences.”

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