On any given day, many of New York’s most pre-eminent institutions contain not just the works of the world’s best-known artists, but also an assortment of artists who work there — for their day jobs.

At many of the city’s museums, galleries, and auction houses, employees’ work is put on display at staff art shows. It’s a way of providing validation to employees, whose work “can often feel more hidden than that of faculty, students and even alumni,” as put by a recent announcement of Parsons School of Design’s inaugural staff art show, “Making Time.” That show is on view this Oct. 16 through Nov. 9 at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, at 66 Fifth Avenue.

“It makes you realize that people who work at museums, even if they're facility staff or they're not doing anything with art, a lot

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