New Museum of Contemporary Art

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New Museum of Contemporary Art (2009)

The New Museum is a museum for contemporary art in New York City . The museum was founded in 1977 and is considered one of the most respected museums for contemporary art positions worldwide.

History of the museum

The New Museum of Contemporary Art was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker , who previously held the post of curator of paintings and sculpture at the Whitney Museum . During her time as director of the New Museum, Tucker and her team curated the American pavilion at the 41st Venice Art Biennale in 1983 . In 1999 Lisa Phillips was appointed director. Like her predecessor, she was previously a curator at Whitney.

Exhibitions

Every year around six major exhibitions are shown in the museum, some solo exhibitions and some group exhibitions. A number of now well-known artists were honored for the first time in a large exhibition. Jeff Koons had his first solo exhibition here in 1980. The Ana Mendieta retrospective from 1987 - two years after the artist's violent death - was widely noticed, also because of the way the exhibition came about. The South African artist William Kentridge had his first American retrospective at the New Museum in 2001. Even Andrea Zittel was first shown in 2006 at the New Museum in a major retrospective.

In 2011 the museum showed the exhibition Ostalgia in which artists from the states of the Eastern Bloc and from the states of the Soviet Union are shown with their works. The main financier of the exhibition was the Russian oligarch Leonid Mikhelson .

In 2012 the museum presented the exhibition Rosemarie Trockel - A Cosmos , previously shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid , which continued to the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2013 .

Location and building

During the first five years of its existence, the New Museum only had one permanent office. The exhibitions were held at changing locations. In 1983 the New Museum moved to the Astor Building in SoHo at 583 Broadway , between Houston Street and Prince Street. In 1994 the Astor Building was sold and converted into condominiums after a luxury renovation. The museum was able to acquire the second floor.

In 2005, construction began on the museum on Bowery Street level with Prince Street. It opened in December 2007. The museum was designed by the Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Tokyo architects SANAA as a seven-story building with a usable area of ​​around 20,000 m². The new building was described as very successful by a number of architecture critics.

Web links

Commons : New Museum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeff Koons ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. (Retrieved December 18, 2008.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newmuseum.org
  2. ↑ Michael Brenson: Type: Works by Ana Mendieta in a Retrospective Exhibition . In: "The New York Times" of November 27, 1987. ISSN  0362-4331 (Retrieved December 18, 2008.)
  3. ↑ William Kentridge ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Grace Glueck: ART REVIEW; Apartheid and Its Bitter Aftertaste . In: "The New York Times" of June 8, 2001. (Both accessed December 18, 2008.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newmuseum.org
  4. ↑ Andrea Zittel ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. (Retrieved December 18, 2008.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newmuseum.org
  5. ^ Martin Filler: Miracle on the Bowery . In: “The New York Review of Books,” Vol. 55, No. 1, January 17, 2008. ISSN  0028-7504 (Retrieved December 18, 2008).

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