Blake Byrne, class of ’57, promised a gift of 33 works of art worth $1 million to the Nasher Museum, doubling the museum’s collection of cutting-edge contemporary art. The 2007 exhibition Collected Identities: Gifts fr...

In its first five years, the Nasher Museum focused on collecting modern and contemporary art with particular emphasis on global, emerging artists of color. Building the Contemporary Collection, in celebration of t...