WEDNESDAY GAPE: Gift Activating Public Experience Wednesday, December 5 at The Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center, 7:30 pm: FREE While government organizations like USPS…
New Museum Tackles Gender in ‘Trigger’ Show
The New Museum is taking a deep dive into the role of gender in contemporary art. With an emphasis on the word “contemporary.” The vast…
How to Make the Most of #MuseumWeek
It’s time to stop putting off checking out the city’s great cultural institutions, because this week is #MuseumWeek. UNESCO is focusing on a different theme…
New Museum Will Debut New Galleries With a Kahlil Joseph Show and More
To celebrate New Museum’s 40th anniversary (contemporary art museums, they grow up so fast!), two new gallery spaces and several exhibits will be added this…
Raymond Pettibon Breaks Out From Behind the Black Flag Bars, at New Museum Show
As he introduced the new Raymond Pettibon retrospective, New Museum artistic director Massimiliano Gioni admitted that he first became aware of the artist via his…
‘Here’s to Cyborgs!’ 10 Things We Learned at Rhizome + New Museum’s Tech Summit
Last Saturday, several groups of artists, scholars, entrepreneurs, writers, and more gathered in the basement of the New Museum for the second annual Open Score…
Pipilotti Rist Creates Kaleidoscopic Comfort With Her Pixel Forest, at the New Museum
As artist Pipilotti Rist spoke to a group of journalists last week, soap bubbles floated out of a silver machine and promptly disappeared in a puff…
Cancel the TV Party, New Museum Is Having a Raymond Pettibon Retrospective
It’s been two years since Raymond Pettibon’s surfer art went on display on the Upper East Side. Wait, wha? The artist who did the anarchic…
At New Museum, Pole Dancing Without the Tassels and Police Hassles
If you thought pole dancing was just a thing for strippers and dance instructors (or strippers turned dance instructors), you thought wrong. It’s a thing…
This Skateboard Shaped Like the New Museum Looks Sick, But Can It Shred?
A house of stacked boxes that teeters upwards from the Bowery, the New Museum’s silhouette doesn’t seem like apt inspiration for a skateboard. But that…