The Zimmerli presents its first exhibition dedicated to women artists in the renowned Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection explores their vital contributions to Soviet nonconformist art. The Beast of Joy spotlights 41 artists from Ukraine, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, with more than 60 paintings and works on paper from the 1970s and 1980s.
This prominent exhibition - the Zimmerli’s inaugural New Jersey Arts Annual in partnership with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts - celebrates contemporary art from across the Garden State.
Nearly 90 of the most iconic works by conceptual artist and activist Hank Willis Thomas (born 1976; Plainfield, N.J.) travel to the Zimmerli.
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A transformative gift expands the Zimmerli’s collection of American art and amplifies the museum’s mission to tell untold stories.
The Zimmerli launched of a new website dedicated to its internationally renowned Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, the largest collection of its kind in the world.
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Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood features 65 paintings and works on paper, exploring themes meaningful to the artist: neighborhood, community and religion. Over a career spanning eight decades, Crite documented the multicultural, multiracial and multigenerational communities of Boston, as well as historic social and economic changes that transformed the nation in the latter half of the 20th century. The artist created a rich visual record of Black life in 20th-century urban America, revealing a sense of community that resonates across time and place.
The exhibition brings together the artist’s early durational films and later serial photographs to examine repetition and duration as central forces in his art. Presenting nearly 70 photographs from the Zimmerli’s collection and a suite of films on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, On Repeat offers a rare look at how Warhol used time, stillness and seriality to chart the shifting terrain of identity.
In the fall of 2024, museum officials started offering monthly Highlights Tours led by student educators, who undergo semester-long training facilitated by members of the Zimmerli’s education and curatorial teams. With an increase in popularity, tours were increased to twice a month in spring 2025. This academic year, the museum is offering 16 such tours.
Over the past couple of years, administrators and staff of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have made it their mission to transform the facility into a bilingual space – and extend a welcoming hand to New Brunswick’s Hispanic and Latino community.
The Zimmerli’s first exhibition dedicated to Armenian nonconformist art from the Dodge collection features nearly 60 artworks by more than 30 artists who captured the ideological, stylistic and aesthetic diversity of Armenian nonconformism from the 1960s to 1990.