Chronology: 1985
Exhibition
The SoHo Center Library is donated to the New Museum by Larry Aldrich in the fall of 1985. The library grows as a result of generous donations of art library collections from artists, critics, and others, eventually comprising over 48,000 volumes of artists’ monographs and books, art history and theory publications, exhibitions catalogues, periodicals, and more. The free, non-lending resource center is the only library in the US exclusively devoted to contemporary art and criticism. Regifted to the New York University Libraries in 2006, it currently resides there under the name of the New Museum Library.
INITIATIVE
Exhibition
Exhibition
The Museum launches the Visible Knowledge Program, a signature educational and professional development program for public high schools. Taking a multicultural and interdisciplinary approach, the VKP pairs artist instructors with high school teachers on a semester-long basis, with the goal of integrating contemporary art with various curricula. The program runs for twenty-one years, ending in 2006 as part of a subsidiary program known as Re-Presenting Race in the Digital Age.
EDUCATION