The Art Center's first curator Paul Mocsanyi, was responsible for more than a quarter-century of provocative exhibitions on art and social themes, and for an ongoing exhibition series, The Artist Thinking of Our Time, from 1987 to 2000, Kathleen Goncharov, the first curator hired with the specific mission of building a collection, greatly expanded New School University's artistic holdings. She acquired more than a thousand pieces by noted artists and assembled a core group of generous donors, lenders and advisors.