What Do We Really Think of the New New Museum?
Hyperallergic published an editors’ roundtable reacting to the New Museum’s reopened and expanded building in New York, designed by OMA (Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas) and adding 60,000 square feet to double exhibition space. The discussion follows a press preview and focuses on whether the expansion improves the visitor experience and the institution’s mission, with editors praising elements like the central staircase atrium while criticizing aspects of the design and circulation. They also assess the inaugural exhibition, “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” which surveys technological change across the 20th and 21st centuries through work by more than 150 artists, scientists, and filmmakers. Specific works mentioned in the conversation include Judith Hopf’s “Phone User 5” (2021–22), Frank Malina’s “Reflections III” (1962), Kenneth Knowlton and Leon Harmon’s “Computer Nude (Studies in Perception I)” (1967), and Alison Knowles’s “The House of Dust Edition” (1967).
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This story was covered in Museum Shakeups, Restitution Fights, and Sponsor Fallout