LEGENDS:
Athleticism in Asian/American Art
February 10 – May 14, 2026
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College (CUNY)
LEGENDS: Athleticism in Asian/American Art explores the intersection of art and sports through the work of contemporary Asian and Asian American artists. While often considered distinct fields, this exhibition highlights how sport and artistic expression serve as interconnected arenas. Featuring artists and collectives across a wide range of artistic media, LEGENDS examines how artists of Asian descent engage with the shared language of art and sport to reflect identity, nationalism, the body, and performance.
The first exhibition to specifically focus on the relationship between art and sports within contemporary Asian and Asian American art, LEGENDS will debut works by The Chinatown Basketball Club, Kaarina Chu Mackenzie, and Astria Suparak.
Programs hosted by the Godwin-Ternbach Museum in conjunction with the exhibition are open to the public. This exhibition was organized by Jayne Cole Southard, art historian and lecturer at The City College of New York. LEGENDS is a Queens College School of Arts Initiative funded by The Thomas Chen Family/Crystal Windows Endowment.
Additional support is provided by Kupferberg Center for the Arts. Education programs and initiatives are supported by the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with New York City Council.
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WUNDERKAMMER III:
THE LANGUAGE of THINGS
September 25, 2025 – May 29, 2026
Lobby Gallery
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College (CUNY)
The third installment of GTM’s Wunderkammer series, The Language of Things, invites viewers to engage with the subtle and powerful voices embedded in material culture. Curated from GTM’s permanent collection, the exhibition juxtaposes the sacred with the mundane, offering a rich tapestry of human creativity, belief, and everyday life.
Spanning millennia and continents, the selected artifacts range from a 15th-century baptismal plate portraying Adam and Eve to a 1960s tramp art box crafted by a Ukrainian priest in New York, and a Ptolemaic-era figurine of Osiris. Alongside these are more ordinary but no less significant items—a brass Turkish coffee grinder, traveling hangers for stockings, and a 4,000-year-old hematite cylinder seal—each bearing the imprint of human use and memory. Together, these objects speak in the silent, tactile language of material culture. They are more than relics—they are messages preserved in form, material, and craftsmanship, resonating with the hands that made and used them.
A special feature of this iteration is a tribute to Allen Rosenbaum, long-serving GTM board member, generous donor, and proud Queens College graduate, 1958. His gift of over 200 Daruma—figures representing Bodhidharma, the 5th century founder of Zen Buddhism in Japan—adds a vibrant spiritual dimension to the exhibition. Selected Daruma pieces on view embody resilience, faith, and the enduring influence of Eastern philosophies in material form.
Support for Wunderkammer III: The Language of Things is provided by the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Kupferberg Center for the Arts, and Queens College, CUNY.
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO ALLEN ROSENBAUM (1937 – 2025)
September 25, 2025 – May 29, 2026
Lobby Gallery
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College (CUNY)
The Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College is honored to present a memorial tribute to Allen Rosenbaum, distinguished art historian, longtime director of the Princeton University Art Museum (Emeritus), and devoted GTM board member for over 25 years. Allen passed away on August 3 at Calvary Hospital in New York City at the age of 88.
Exhibition support is provided by the Kupferberg Center for the Arts. Education programs and initiatives are supported by the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with New York City Council.
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