Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers Receives Significant Gift of Over 70 Works
4July 16, 2026
TheZimmerli Art Museum, the fine arts museum of Rutgers University in New Jersey, has just received a gift of more than seventy noteworthy works of modern and contemporary art from Anne and Arthur Goldstein, longtime benefactors of the institution.
The trove of artworks includes a mixed-media drawing by Nicole Eisenman, 1960s works by Lee Friedlander and a self portrait made by the artist, DJ, and poet Juliana Huxtable. The Goldsteins also bestowed distinctive, lumpen ceramics made by Alice Mackler, a painter and sculptor who only began to garner attention for her creations once she was in her eighties; and a skateboard deck customized by the artist Darren Bader.
The Goldsteins have now donated over 160 works, including pieces by Cindy Sherman, Robert Rauschenberg, and Annie Leibovitz, to the Rutgers art institution to date. The couple’s latest gift will be celebrated by the museum with an exhibition, “Mashup: New Acquisitions from the Zimmerli,” which will open in February of 2027.
“We view this collection as an achievement,” Arthur, who studied law at Rutgers, said in a statement. “The law has been a deeply meaningful career; collecting has enriched our lives in ways we never expected.”
“Anne and Arthur are visionary collectors who have long championed artists of color, women artists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community,” Maura Reilly, the Director of the Zimmerli Art Museum, said in a statement. “This gift represents their enduring relationship with the museum and a remarkable synchronicity with the values that are at the heart of our mission to reflect the nation’s most diverse public university.”