Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025
Chronostasis is a perceptual illusion in which time appears to slow after shifting one’s attention. "Chronostasia" likewise extends and recirculates time. Comprising over sixty additions to the Loeb’s collection from 2020 through 2025, this exhibition approaches temporality through return, inheritance, motion, and seriality. Some works revisit the past—adapting its forms and disrupting its logics. Others offer ways of seeing that move beyond chronology: archives are brought to light, past to present, and time to scale.
The Loeb’s collection has not grown by linear design, but in intervals: through gifts, bequests, purchases, and recontextualizations. "Chronostasia" highlights acquisitions that broaden the museum’s holdings across media, histories, and geographies. Many of these works were acquired to expand representation and reshape the terms of inquiry, to rethink medium and narrative, and to reimagine what a collection holds. The Loeb’s collecting practices support interdisciplinary teaching, long-term research, and new forms of campus and community engagement. "Chronostasia" reflects a selection of these efforts, and we invite you to view additional acquisitions on display in our permanent galleries.
"Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025" is organized by Alyx Raz, Assistant Curator, and generously supported by the Evelyn B. Metzger Exhibition Fund. There are works that appeared in this exhibition that were loans to the Loeb and therefore do not appear on this website.
