US EditionThe New Museum Will Reopen on March 21 With Massimiliano Gioni’s “New Humans”
The New Museum's expansion doubles exhibition space to 20,000 square feet and features over 200 contributors in an inaugural show exploring technology's impact on humanity.
- The New Museum, a Manhattan contemporary art museum, will unveil its new annex designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture with Cooper Robertson on March 21, integrating with its SANAA flagship.
- Museum officials note the expansion began after buying 231 Bowery in 2008, but the NYC Department of Buildings delayed the planned last-fall reopening by requesting more information.
- Three elevators, an atrium stairway and a new street-level entrance plaza ease circulation and mitigate crowds, while upper floors include NEW INC for 120 entrepreneurs, a 74-seat Forum and Sky Room.
- The New Museum will offer free admission on March 21 and 22, but adult tickets will rise from $22 to $25 afterward, while free for visitors 18 and under and SNAP/EBT recipients.
- Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni presents the inaugural exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future, featuring more than 200 artists, writers and thinkers exploring technology’s impact on humanity.
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New Museum in NYC to Reopen in March
After a nearly two-year expansion and a delayed reopening, the New Museum in New York City will finally welcome the public again on March 21.The Manhattan contemporary art museum temporarily shuttered in March 2024 to construct a 60,000-square-foot annex on Bowery that doubles its exhibition space to 20,000 square feet.Designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s partners Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu with Cooper Robertson, the ne…
New Museum to open in March 2026 following expansion work by OMA and Rem Koolhaas
After some delays, Manhattan’s only museum dedicated to contemporary art will finally reopen its doors to the public on 21 March 2026. An exhibition called New Humans: Memories of the Future will inaugurate the premises just over a year after the expansion was announced. At the start of March 2026, the New Museum announced it would be doubling in size thanks to an expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas, in collaboration w…
New Museum sets opening date for OMA-designed expansion
The New Museum in New York has announced that its 60,000-square-foot expansion designed by architecture firm OMA will open on 21 March.Manhattan’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art closed for the project in March 2024.Designed by OMA's Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with executive architect Cooper Robertson, the new building was created to blend seamlessly with the museum's existing Sanaa-designed flagshi…
The New Museum Will Reopen on March 21, and Other News
Plus, the 'Are You Dead?' app becomes China's most-downloaded paid smartphone application, and Norman Foster's time capsule for the United States' 250th anniversary. Courtesy of OMA/bloomingimages.de The newly expanded New Museum has announced an opening date of March 21. The New Museum will reopen on March 21 after a two-year closure for a major site […]
The New Museum in Manhattan is reopening soon and it's going to be bigger than ever
Designed by OMA, the New Museum will enjoy more space and an art-filled restaurant by The Oberon Group The New Museum is reopening to the public again. After a decade of planning, a two-year overhaul and an US$82 million expansion, the new space on Manhattan’s Bowery will open this 21 March 2026, putting an end to exactly one year of hiatus. At 5,574 square metres, the OMA-designed building will double the old footprint by SANAA. Led by Shohei S…
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