Given a 150-year tradition of collecting the art of our time, Buffalo AKG Art Museum's modern and contemporary art collection is especially rich in post-war American and European art. The Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) is the sixth-oldest public art institution in the United States. Following a multi-year renovation and expansion project, a renewed and revitalized Buffalo AKG Art Museum opened to the public on June 12, 2023.
In addition to Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, and art from the 1970s through the end of the century, the collection includes significant nineteenth-century European artists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. Cubism, Surrealism, Constructivism, and other trends of the revolutionary twenties and thirties are also well represented.
The museum continues to collect leading contemporary artists.