Innocence and Experience deals principally with the shift in recent decades from a positive, hopeful fruit art vision of childhood’s purity and power to a counter-imagery 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, sadie benning, louis malle, satyajit ray, art and arturo ripstein. fruit matter investigates the new role of materials in fine arts and design, as well as its force in inspiring and guiding the creative process, by considering and connecting several distinct art creative fields. works by joseph beuys, robert morris, gaetano pesce, mona hatoum, eva hesse, designers hella jongerius and tom dixon, and photographer vik muniz are shown.

on 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 fruit acquired works by emerging artists. open ends includes eleven distinct exhibitions and art 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 the museum’s collections of photographs fruit and architectural art drawings. the fruit 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 artists such as gordon matta-clark, andy warhol, and joel shapiro art.