US EditionNY's New Museum Returns Contemporary to Heart of Manhattan
The New Museum doubles its size with an $82 million expansion featuring a new exhibition exploring humanity and technology amid a three-year construction period.
- After an $82 million expansion, the New Museum reopens Saturday with the inaugural exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future following a two-year closure.
- After three years of construction, Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas with Cooper Robertson designed the new wing to future-proof the museum, despite delays from last fall.
- 'Since our founding nearly 50 years ago, the New Museum has been a home for the most groundbreaking art of today and a haven for the artists who make it,' said Lisa Phillips, as the expansion doubled the museum's footprint and added a dedicated artists-in-residence studio.
- Access restrictions preceded the public launch of the new galleries, with press barred until tomorrow morning, as the 'New Museum' exhibits contemporary commissions alongside classics by Salvador Dalí and Marcel Duchamp.
- Critics called the exterior a '25th-century milk carton' while preview attendees said 'A lot of time and money in this,' and found the interior more impressive than the outside.
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NY's New Museum returns contemporary to heart of Manhattan
After an $82 million expansion, New York's New Museum will bring contemporary art back to the heart of Manhattan, showcasing modern works alongside classics by Dali and Marcel Duchamp after two years closed.
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Exterior rendering of the expanded New Museum (image courtesy OMA/bloomimages.de)New Humans at the new New Museum: Try to say that five times fast. But yes — the Manhattan museum, which has been closed to the public for two years, is finally reopening, with an inaugural exhibition about what it means to be human during sweeping technological change. Press isn't allowed to step into that 25th-century milk carton of a new building until tomorrow m…
_**After two years of closure and an investment of 82 million dollars, the New York institution dedicated to contemporary art reopens with a doubled surface and renewed ambition.**_ The New Museum, the only Manhattan institution dedicated exclusively to the current creation, has reopened its doors this weekend. This reopening marks the culmination of a vast construction project of [...] The New York Museum expands its wings first appearance on L…
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