Innocence and Experience deals principally with the shift in recent decades from a positive, fine figure art hopeful vision of childhood’s figure purity and power to a counter-imagery art and fine of youth threatened or corrupted. the gallery exhibition includes works by diane arbus, robert gober, mona hatoum, and mike kelley. an accompanying film and video exhibition includes films and videos by stan brakhage, joseph cornell, figure sadie benning, louis malle, satyajit ray, and arturo ripstein. matter investigates the new role of materials in fine arts and design, as well as its force art in inspiring and guiding the creative process, by fine considering and connecting several distinct creative fields. works by joseph beuys, robert morris, gaetano pesce, mona hatoum, figure eva hesse, designers hella jongerius and tom dixon, and photographer vik muniz are shown.

on art view throughout the museum are an especially varied range of objects, images, and room-sized installations, including masterworks by some of the most influential artists of the past forty years, along with an impressive number of recently acquired works by emerging artists. open ends includes eleven distinct exhibitions and ten large-scale works and installations that examine key themes and lines of affinity that define contemporary art and artists. the exhibition opens in three stages. architecture hot and cold presents a wide range of images of architecture principally drawn from fine the museum’s collections figure of photographs and architectural drawings. the exhibition includes works by architects including archigram and rem koolhaas are shown alongside the photography of andreas gursky and robert adams, for example, as well as works in different media by art artists such as gordon matta-clark, andy warhol, and joel shapiro.