From Dan Flavin to Rirkrit Tiravanija, discover artists who have been challenging standards and changing perceptions.

Making Strange

Blurring the boundary between art and environment, Chara transformed her living spaces to highlight her art collection.

Living with Art 

From Louise Bourgeois to Kara Walker, discover work that reflects Chara’s lifelong commitment to supporting and collecting women artists.

&nbsp;From Louise Bourgeois to Kara Walker, discover work that reflects Chara’s lifelong commitment to supporting and collecting women artists.

Future is Female

New York

Today, the extraordinary Collection of Chara Schreyer traces the evolution of Contemporary Art history at nearly every critical juncture, and it can be attributed to none other than her own visionary and tasteful eye. With its broader curatorial origins beginning with Marcel Duchamp – the Dada Conceptual prodigy and progenitor from which the rest of the Collection extends – the Collection of Chara Schreyer encompasses over six hundred artworks that celebrate interconnectedness and adaptability, all connected by their beguiling reenchantment of the mundane. Famously, Chara referred to these masterpieces as “making strange,” paying homage to the uniquely astounding ability of art in the wake of Duchamp to change perceptions – to make the familiar strange, the strange familiar. Sale Number: N11569

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Matt Parciak

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Today, the extraordinary Collection of Chara Schreyer traces the evolution of Contemporary Art history at nearly every critical juncture, and it can be attributed to none other than her own visionary and tasteful eye.

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