Ancient history

New Museum | Museum, New York City, New York, United States

New Museum , full New Museum of Contemporary Art , Museum in New York City, dedicated to the exhibition of works by contemporary and living artists. The museum was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, a former curator at Whitney Museum of American Art, founded .

Tucker imagined the museum as alternatives artist space that did not require a permanent home for its impact. Thus, the museum's early years of offering exhibitions and programs were unclear. The museum was first opened in 1977 in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan at non-profit gallery C Space. It moved to a room on the New School for Social Research (today New School) um ) in July of this year. Over the next six years, the museum organized controversial and seminal exhibitions such as Bad Painting (1978) and Expanded Sensibility:Gay Presence in Contemporary Art (1982). The museum also established its signature window installation series, in which the ground-level street windows were often used as a showroom for individual artists, including the up-and-coming Jeff Koons (1980). The series continued at the next location of the museum.

In 1983, the museum moved to a permanent space in the Astor Building at 583 Broadway in the SoHo neighborhood. It was expanded further into this building in 1996-97. From the late 1990s, the museum presented solo exhibitions by several major international artists, who later became part of the USA , including Mona Hatoum (1998), Doris Salcedo (1998), Cildo Meireles (2000) and William Kentridge (2001) ) and Marlene Dumas (2002). Showcasing international artists remained an important part of the museum's mission. In 1999, Lisa Phillips (also previously at the Whitney Museum of American Art) succeeded Tucker as director of the museum. Under her leadership, the museum became a pioneer in presenting new media.

In 2003 Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA were chosen to design a new permanent building for the New Museum. The building, located at 235 Bowery, looks like a tower of stacked boxes of various sizes. It opened in December 2007. In 2009 the museum organized the first iteration of the New Museum Triennial, an exhibition of early-career artists from around the world. The museum is also known for extending its mission through many collaborations with national and international museums and art and design institutions. InitiativesThe Three M Project (Three Museum), a collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, brings together the resources of three institutions to “collectively commission, exhibit and acquire important works of contemporary art by artists whose work has not yet received significant recognition. “ The museum also offers various programs that serve as incubators for new ideas in art, architecture, design, and technology.