New Museum

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New Museum
Established 1977[1]
Location 235 Bowery
Manhattan, New York
Coordinates 40°43′20″N 73°59′36″W / 40.722239°N 73.993219°W / 40.722239; -73.993219
Type Contemporary Art
Director Lisa Phillips
Curator Gary Carrion-Murayari
Lauren Cornell
Richard Flood
Massimiliano Gioni
Jenny Moore
Margot Norton
Website New Museum

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[edit] History

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world. The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Centre of the then-named New School for Social Research at 65 Fifth Avenue.[2] The New Museum remained there until 1983, when it rented and moved to the first two and a half floors of the Astor Building in the SoHo neighborhood at 583 Broadway.[3]

In 1999, Marcia Tucker was succeeded as director by Lisa Phillips, previously the curator of contemporary art at the Whitney Museum of American Art.[4] In 2001, the museum rented 7,000 square feet of space on the first floor of the Chelsea Art Museum on West 22nd Street for a year.[5]

Over the past five years, the New Museum has exhibited artists from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Germany, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom among many other countries. In 2003, the New Museum formed an affiliation with Rhizome, a leading online platform for global new media art.

In 2005, the museum was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.[6][7]

On December 1, 2007, the New Museum opened the doors to its new $50 million location at 235 Bowery, between Stanton and Rivington Streets.[8] The seven-story 60,000-square-foot facility,[9] designed by the Tokyo-based firm Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA and the New York-based firm Gensler, has greatly expanded the Museum’s exhibitions and space. In April 2008, the museum's new building was named one of the architectural New Seven Wonders of the World by Conde Nast Traveler.[10]

The Bowery location has gallery and events space, plus a Resource Center with books and computers for access to their main web site and digital archive.

Resource Center

[edit] Collection

When she founded the museum, Marcia Tucker decided it should buy works and sell them 10 years later so that its collection would always be new. It was an innovative plan that was never carried out. In 2000, the museum accepted its first corporate donation of artworks.[11] The museum now has a modest collection of about 1,000 works in many media.[12] In 2004, it joined forces with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in raising $110,000 from two foundations -- $50,000 from the American Center Foundation and $60,000 from the Peter Norton Family Foundation—to help pay for commissioning, buying, and exhibiting the work of emerging young artists.[13]

[edit] Exhibitions: past and present

The Museum presents the work of under-recognized artists, and has mounted ambitious surveys of important figures such as Ana Mendieta, William Kentridge, David Wojnarowicz, Paul McCarthy and Andrea Zittel before they received widespread public recognition. In 2003, the New Museum presented the highly-regarded exhibition Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

Continuing its focus of exhibiting emerging international artists, the museum organized the much discussed and visited exhibition, The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, in 2009.

[edit] Present exhibitions

[edit] Other programs

In 2008, art dealer Barbara Gladstone initiated the formation of the Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund at the New Museum, established in honor of the her late son and renowned art dealer. The gift was meant to support a new series of public lectures and presentations by cultural visionaries, the Visionaries Series, which debuted in 2009 and features prominent international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design and contemporary culture; past speakers have included Alice Waters and Jimmy Wales.

[edit] Management

[edit] Funding

In 2002, the New Museum sold its previous home in SoHo for $18 million. It subsequently bought the new Bowery site for $5 million. In order to cover the building and endowment, it raised an estimated $64 million.[14]

[edit] Board of Trustees

Since taking office, director Lisa Phillips expanded board membership to 35 from 18. Being a board member requires a minimum annual contribution of $25,000.[15] Current members include Warren Eisenberg and Dakis Joannou.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lorente, J. Pedro (2011). The Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and Development. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. pp. 7. ISBN 9781409405863.
  2. ^ Brenson, Michael (8 January 1983). "New Museum Given Home In Soho". New York Times. http://search.proquest.com/docview/122094965?accountid=27668. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  3. ^ Brenson, Michael (8 January 1983). "New Museum Given Home In Soho". New York Times. http://search.proquest.com/docview/122094965?accountid=27668. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  4. ^ Vogel, Carol (17 December 1998). "A Top Curator Is Leaving The Whitney For SoHo Post". New York Times. http://search.proquest.com/docview/109857019?accountid=27668. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  5. ^ Randy Kennedy (July 25, 2004), The New Museum's New Non-Museum New York Times.
  6. ^ Roberts, Sam (2005-07-06). "City Groups Get Bloomberg Gift of $20 Million". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/nyregion/06donate.html?ex=1278302400&en=93a1beabd4ede5b8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
  7. ^ "Carnegie Corporation of New York Announces Twenty Million Dollars in New York City Grants". Carnegie Corporation of New York. 2005-07-05. http://carnegie.org/news/press-releases/story/news-action/single/view/carnegie-corporation-of-new-york-announces-twenty-million-dollars-in-new-york-city-grants/. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
  8. ^ Vogel, Carol (27 July 2007). "Inside Art: The New Museum Sets the Date". New York Times. http://search.proquest.com/docview/848086650?accountid=27668. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  9. ^ Carol Vogel (March 28, 2007), On the Bowery, a New Home for New Art New York Times.
  10. ^ "New Seven Wonders of the World". Conde Nast Traveler. 2008-04. http://www.cntraveler.com/arts/2008/04/New-Seven-Wonders-of-the-World. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
  11. ^ Randy Kennedy (July 25, 2004), The New Museum's New Non-Museum New York Times.
  12. ^ Carol Vogel (March 28, 2007), On the Bowery, a New Home for New Art New York Times.
  13. ^ Carol Vogel (March 23, 2004), Museums Join To Buy Works Of New Artists New York Times.
  14. ^ Carol Vogel (March 28, 2007), On the Bowery, a New Home for New Art New York Times.
  15. ^ Carol Vogel (March 28, 2007), On the Bowery, a New Home for New Art New York Times.

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