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.
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.
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.
3 December 2013 • Mark Westall
Laure Prouvost New Exhibitions and Artist Talk
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!
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.
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.
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!
8 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Major Exhibition Featuring Over Seventy-Five Artists Examines Works Made or Exhibited in New York City Twenty Years Ago
27 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Jonathan Horowitz, “Your Land/My Land: Election ’12.” Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise. Photo: Thomas Mueller The New Museum… Read More
22 June 2010 • Mark Westall
June 23–September 19, 2010 Covering a decade of the internationally admired artist’s work, “Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other”… Read More
6 May 2010 • Mark Westall
“Skin Fruit,” the much-anticipated, Jeff Koons -curated exhibition featuring million-dollar works by the biggest names in contemporary art continues at… Read More
