ABOUT THE NEW MUSEUM The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art. Founded in 1977, the New Museum was conceived as a center for exhibitions, information, and documenta- tion about living artists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street to the inauguration of its first freestanding building, designed by SANAA, on the Bowery in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a hub of new art and new ideas and is a place of ongoing experimentation about what art and arts institutions can be in the twenty-first century.

DIRECTORS Marcia Tucker, Founding Director, 1977–99 Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, 1999–present Photo: Dean Kaufman MUSEUM AS HUB ARCHITECTURE The Museum as Hub supports and interrogates artistic, With the inauguration of the building at 235 Bowery, the curatorial, and institutional practice, and serves as an New Museum occupies its own freestanding building for important resource for the public to learn about the first time in the institution’s history, and is the first contemporary art from around the world. Both a physical art museum ever built from the ground up in downtown site and a network of artists, curators, and institutions, Manhattan. The seven-story structure, a glimmering the initiative investigates the potential for collaborative metal mesh-clad stack of boxes shifted off axis in a exchange realized through residencies, exhibitions, and dynamic composition, was designed by noted avant-gar- public programs. Founding institutions include: de architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the art space pool, Seoul; Insa Art Space, Seoul; Museo Tokyo-based partnership Sejima + Nishizawa / SANAA, Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; Museo Tamayo, Mexico who were awarded the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize. City; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; and the Van Abbemuse- SHIFT: SANAA and the New Museum, a book about the um, Eindhoven. Currently active partners are art space making of the New Museum is available for purchase at pool, Seoul; Beirut, Cairo; de_sitio, Mexico City; Inhotim, the New Museum Store or online at newmuseumstore. Brumadinho, Brazil; Miami Art Museum, Townhouse org. Gallery, Cairo; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

EXHIBITIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS PUBLIC PROGRAMMING Exhibitions and special projects reflect the New Among other public programs, such as film screen- Museum’s enduring commitment to encouraging new ings and talks with artists and scholars, ongoing series work by a diverse range of emerging and established include Get Weird, an experimental concert series; New international artists. The completion of a new building Silent, a series presenting contemporary art engaged allows the New Museum to realize more ambitious ex- with new technology; Propositions, a monthly two-day hibitions and public events then ever before. Programs seminar investigating ideas in progress by leading art- change regularly and encapsulate the New Museum’s ists and thinkers in the field of contemporary art; and philosophy of openness and fearlessness, as well as our RE:NEW RE:PLAY, a series of monthlong performance history as the home of socially committed contemporary residencies in the New Museum Theater that seek to art. For more information, visit newmuseum.org /exhibi- reopen a dialogue between the visual and performing arts tions. while providing performing artists with a new context for considering the cultural impact of their work. Admission for most artist talks is free for New Museum Members; all other tickets include discounts for Members. For more information, visit newmuseum.org/calendar.

newmuseum.org TEL + 1 212.219.1222 FAX + 1 212.431.5328 SCHOOL, YOUTH, AND FAMILY PROGRAMS NEW MUSEUM STORE The New Museum offers a range of programs for teen The New Museum Store has long been considered a and school-related audiences, including professional premier destination for those seeking a unique and development workshops for educators, school and comprehensive selection of contemporary art books and community partnership programs, intensive after-school gifts. True to the New Museum’s forward-looking mis- and summer internship programs for teens, and New sion, the Store procures and produces the most engag- Museum teen nights. These programs are dedicated ing and thought-provoking books, gifts, artist-designed to connecting teachers and students aged thirteen to limited editions, two- and three-dimensional art objects, nineteen with contemporary art knowledge and the art periodicals, and a cutting-edge selection of CDs and resources of the Museum, including intensive work with DVDs. Shop online at newmuseumstore.org. All sales artists and intersections with other program and exhi- from the New Museum Store support the exhibitions and bition activities, and engaging young people in relevant programs of the New Museum. and critical discussions around contemporary art and culture. For families, the Museum offers First Satur- HESTER STREET CAFE days for Families, a program designed to for families The New Museum is pleased to house the Hester Street with children ages three to ten years old. On each first Café, a collaboration with the venerated Lower East Saturday of the month, from September through May, Side community market, Hester Street Fair, known as families are welcomed free of charge from 10 a.m. to 12 a launching pad for small, independent businesses and p.m. to the Museum for a galleryviewing and hands-on artists. Hester Street Café at the New Museum offers art-making workshop led by New Museum docents. For New Yorkers and tourists alike a taste of some of the more information, visit newmuseum.org/learn. most creative food entrepreneurs in the city, providing a platform for these local food artisans to present their TOUR PROGRAMS products in a museum environment. Tours of the Museum’s current exhibitions are avail- able for private groups and public drop-in visitors. Led SKY ROOM EVENT SPACE by New Museum’s docents, public tours for the visiting The Museum’s seventh-floor Sky Room offers one of the public are offered Wednesday through Friday at 12:30 most arresting views in downtown Manhattan. The near- p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. ly two thousand-square-foot space including an outdoor Public tours are free with admission and offered on a terrace is open to the public on weekends. With uninter- first come, first served basis. Private groups may sched- rupted panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline and ule group tours in advance with New Museum Educators. beyond, this space serves as a dramatic backdrop for Group tours last up to sixty minutes and are available private special events. For information on space rental, Wednesday through Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. visit newmuseum.org/spacerental. For more information, visit newmuseum.org/visit.

AFFILIATION WITH RHIZOME LOCATION AND HOURS In 2003, the New Museum formed an affiliation with The New Museum is located at 235 Bowery (at Prince Rhizome, recognizing that both institutions share a com- Street between Stanton and Rivington Streets). The New mitment to emerging art and ideas. Founded in 1996 as Museum is open to the public Wednesday through Sun- an intimate email list subscribed to by the first artists to day, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., with extended evening hours work online, Rhizome has evolved into a thriving non- on Free Thursday Evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. The New profit and played an integral role in the history, defini- Museum is closed to the public on Monday and Tuesday, tion, and growth of art engaged with the internet and except for prescheduled group tours on Tuesday. For networked technologies. The New Museum continues more information call 212.219.1222 or visit newmuseum. to partner with Rhizome to present innovative public org. programming and special projects. For more information, visit rhizome.org. ADMISSION General Admission: $16 Seniors: $14 Students: $10 Under 18: FREE Members: FREE

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