After being closed to the general public for a couple of 12 months, Manhattan’s New Museum will reopen this fall with greater than double the gallery house and a sweeping exhibition that includes the work of greater than 150 artists. The long-awaited reopening follows the New Museum’s non permanent closure to the general public final March for the $82 million development of an adjoining seven-story extension.
Designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas of the agency OMA in collaboration with architect Cooper Robertson, the brand new 60,000-square-foot constructing at 231 Bowery will seem, on its exterior, as a distinctly separate polygonal counterpart juxtaposing the prevailing multi-tiered museum, composed of laminated glass merged with metallic meshing that can permit for a clear view of its amenities throughout night hours.
Nonetheless from “Soft Materials” (2004) by Daria Martin, considered one of 150 artists who might be featured within the New Museum’s fall exhibition (© Daria Martin, courtesy the New Museum)
Inside, the brand new constructing will hook up with the pre-established construction with out interruption, increasing the museum’s second-, third-, and fourth-floor galleries by 9,600 sq. ft and lengthening the ground-floor foyer and seventh-floor panoramic skyroom areas.
Preliminary renderings of the museum prompted some essential responses on-line by those that characterised the addition as “hostile” and “corporate,” and in contrast the design to one thing that “would look more in place on a prostate MRI than on the Bowery.” Some native Decrease East Siders additionally expressed dissatisfaction with the brand new constructing, describing it as an “oversized hulk” and “out of character” for the neighborhood.
The enlargement may also home venues for artist residencies and public programming, further elevators and upper-floor terraces overlooking the Bowery, a full-service restaurant, and the “NEW INC” cultural incubator, with working areas and manufacturing amenities for over 120 rising entrepreneurs collaborating within the annual program.
Left: Andro Wekua, “Untitled” from Some Pheasants in Singularity (2014) (© Andro Wekua, picture by Stephen White; courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery and Sprüth Magers)Proper: Valuable Okoyomon, “Lamb Girl” (2024) (© Valuable Okoyomon, picture by Benedetta Mascalchi)
To inaugurate its new look, the New Museum will reopen to the general public with the exhibition New People: Recollections of the Future, exploring the ever-morphing relationship between humanity and technological evolution throughout the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
Although an entire listing of artists included within the present has not but been launched, the museum confirmed that up to date works Daria Martin, Philippe Parreno, and Wangechi Mutu might be in dialogue with items by historic artists together with Francis Bacon, Salvador Dalí, and Kiki Kogelnik.
Alongside the exhibition, spanning three flooring of the museum, there might be a number of site-specific commissions together with a piece entitled “VENUS VICTORIA” by Sarah Lucas, who’s the inaugural recipient of the biannual Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award. The prize, which goals to help the manufacturing of recent sculpture by girls artists, will present recipients with a $400,000 grant to create an set up and exhibition on the museum’s soon-to-be accomplished public plaza on the Bowery.
