New Museum Unveils Tschabalala Self’s Art Lovers Facade Commission
24 March 2026 • Mark Westall
Tschabalala Self unveils Art Lovers, a major facade sculpture at the New Museum in New York, marking her first large-scale public work in the city.
Tag: New Museum
New Museum is New York City’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art. Founded in 1977, it was conceived as a space for the new, the experimental and the not-yet-canonised—championing artists and ideas at moments of emergence rather than retrospect. Its programme has consistently foregrounded global perspectives, political urgency and formal risk.
Housed in its distinctive SANAA-designed building on the Bowery, the New Museum operates as both an exhibition space and a platform for dialogue. Solo exhibitions, thematic surveys, performances and public programmes unfold with an emphasis on context, research and critical engagement. The institution has been instrumental in introducing audiences to artists who would later shape international contemporary art discourse.
At its core, the New Museum treats contemporaneity as an active condition rather than a category. By remaining responsive to social, technological and cultural shifts, it positions the museum not as a repository of consensus, but as a site of questioning—where art functions as a tool for thinking about the present and its possible futures.
New Museum Announces Site-Specific Commission by Klára Hosnedlová for Atrium Stair in OMA-Designed Building Expansion
25 April 2025 • Mark Westall
The presentation, which will be the celebrated young artist’s first museum project in the United States, will be on long-term view beginning in fall 2025
New Museum’s Cultural Incubator NEW INC Announces The DEMO2024 Art, Design & Technology Festival schedule.
23 April 2024 • Mark Westall
Celebrating NEW INC’s 10th Anniversary with Alumni Including Stephanie Dinkins, Kinfolk, MSCHF, Marco Roso of DIS, and Scope of Work, Among Many Others.
New Museum Extends “Judy Chicago: Herstory” and “Puppies Puppies: Nothing New” Through March 3rd, 2024
28 November 2023 • Mark Westall
The New Museum has announced the extension of “Judy Chicago: Herstory” and “Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New” through March 3rd, 2024.
New Museum announce 4 solo shows for Summer.
12 April 2023 • Mark Westall
The New Museum has announced details of four solo exhibitions opening June 29, 2023
Sarah Lucas awarded Inaugural Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award
29 March 2023 • Mark Westall
The New Museum has announced that Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London, UK) is the inaugural recipient of the Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award, a biennial award supporting the production of new sculpture by women artists.
New Museum Announces 2023 Exhibitions
14 January 2023 • Mark Westall
The New Museum has announced its advance exhibition schedule through the end of 2023. Following the Museum’s previously announced major… Read More
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott.
28 July 2022 • Mark Westall
Featuring approximately forty paintings, “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott” highlights the sixty-year-long career of Robert Colescott. Colescott’s bold and richly rendered works traverse art history to offer a satirical take on issues of race, beauty, and twentieth-century American culture.
New Museum Presents Exhibitions by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Wong Ping, and Ed Atkins this Summer
8 July 2021 • Mark Westall
The New Museum’s summer 2021 exhibition line-up features three monographic presentations installed in the Museum’s main galleries. On the Second… Read More
New Museum Appoints Salome Asega as Director of NEW INC
6 July 2021 • Mark Westall
Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Karen Wong, Deputy Director of the New Museum, have announced that Salome Asega will become director… Read More
New Museum to reopen mid September
18 August 2020 • Mark Westall
The New Museum announced today that it will reopen to the public on September 15th, 2020, following a six-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To celebrate the reopening, admission will be free to all visitors, through Sunday, September 27th.
Peter Saul Crime and punishment is the artist’s first New York museum survey
7 February 2020 • Mark Westall
For over fifty years, Peter Saul (b. 1934, San Francisco, CA) has been one of America’s boldest and most iconoclastic painters.
Marking the artist’s first New York museum survey, this exhibition at New Museum will bring together approximately sixty paintings from across his long career.
Onassis USA + the New Museum’s NEW INC have announced a major new partnership
15 January 2020 • Mark Westall
Onassis USA and the New Museum’s NEW INC have announced a major new partnership to create a space for artists, filmmakers, and designers working in mixed reality—the Onassis, NEW INC eXtended Reality Studio—ONX Studio.
Last chance to catch Sarah Lucas Au Naturel at New Museum
9 January 2019 • Mark Westall
You still have time to catch “Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel,” at the New Museum in New York. The exhibitions is the first major survey in the United States of her work
The Store X + The Vinyl Factory + New Museum collaborate for new immersive London exhibition
4 September 2018 • Mark Westall
The Store X The Vinyl Factory and New York’s New Museum are collaborating to present the immersive exhibition, Strange Days: Memories of the Future.
New Museum to present the first major survey exhibition of Sarah Lucas in the U.S.A.
15 June 2018 • Mark Westall
The New Museum is to present “Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel,” on view from September 26, 2018 to January 20, 2019. The first major survey in the United States of the work of British artist Sarah Lucas
The Store X + Vinyl Factory team up with New Museum for: “Strange Days: Memories of the Future”
2 May 2018 • Mark Westall
The Store X and the New Museum have just announced “Strange Days: Memories of the Future”, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director at New York’s New Museum, in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory.
“Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon”
25 September 2017 • Mark Westall
Opening this week on Wednesday “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” investigates gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars.
New Museum to host first solo American exhibition of Turner Prize winner Laure Prouvost opening February 2014!
8 January 2014 • VC Maurer
For her New Museum presentation, Prouvost will present For Forgetting (2014), a new work that will include a semicircular collaged mural, a multichannel video installation, scattered sculptural elements, and a film. Centering on the problems as well as the possibilities of memory and forgetting.
Laure Prouvost New Exhibitions and Artist Talk
3 December 2013 • Mark Westall
Laure Prouvost New Exhibitions and Artist Talk
Top 5 Posts on FAD This Week
2 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Top 5 Posts on FAD This Week http://bit.ly/1bLZ7ix Incubators for Art/Design start ups, Whitchapel 2014, Tabish’s top 5 a great interview from Yvette with UBERMORGEN and finally a great artist opportunity with the Secret Garden!
New Museum, NY presents ‘XFR STN’ on until 9th of September
2 August 2013 • VC Maurer
Addressing the need for media migration services to preserve creative production, this unique show in collaboration with Rhizome, offers video artists the opportuinty to digitize their original works.
Salon 94+Visual Aids team up for a one-off event the 25th of July to celebrate life of legendary photographer Jimmy DeSana
24 July 2013 • VC Maurer
For ‘Party Picks and Love Stories’ Salon 94 is teaming up with Visual AIDS for an archive salon as part of its NOT OVER series.This archive salon brings together Joy Episalla, Bryn Kelly, Laurie Simmons, Jack Waters, Carrie Yamaoka and guests to share memories and histories of artists, like Jimmy DeSana whom we have lost to AIDS, and to discuss the contemporary impact of the ongoing AIDS crisis.
Summer Fun! GOSEE: ‘Ellen Gallagher Don’t Axe Me’ on @Tate Modern in London or @NewMuseum in New York
16 July 2013 • VC Maurer
Whether you are in London or New york this Summer, have no fear because you can catch this thrilling show at the New Museum (NY) or at the Tate Modern (London). Full of humor, historical depth, psychological complexity, and formal inventiveness, we highly suggest to check this show out!