Self-portraits by Robert Rauschenberg and Laura Aguilar, a painted skateboard, and a photographic series of hairstyles from Mark Bradford are among the more than 70 artworks bound for the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The acquisitions are part of a gift from collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein announced by the museum on Wednesday, July 15.
The gift brings together works by household names, emerging artists, and long-underrecognized painters and photographers. Troy Lamarr Chew II’s oil painting “Corrlinks and Jaypay/Free My Dawgs” (2021) features a surrealist scene decorated with a hodgepodge of kites, dogs, rats, and an oversized soup can reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can series (1961–2).
Juliana Huxtable probes ideological assumptions and representations of gender and sexuality in her hyper-contemporary inkjet print, “Untitled in the Rage (Nibiru Cataclysm)” (2015).
The gifted artworks will be on view alongside a selection of paintings donated by the Alex Katz Foundation in Mashup: New Acquisitions from the Zimmerli in February 2027.
In a press release, Chief Curator Jeremiah William McCarthy described the exhibition as an opportunity to identify “unexpected connections” across the different histories, traditions, and vantage points represented within the museum’s holdings.
Other artists in the gift include Tauba Auerbach, Nicole Eisenman, Kunié Sugiura, and John Waters.
“Much of the collection is a record of our travels and our shared commitment to championing undersung artists,” Arthur Goldstein, who studied law at Rutgers, said in a statement.
