New Museum
Contemporary art museum in a seven-story stacked-box tower clad in shimmering aluminum mesh.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the New Museum in New York follows curator Marcia Tucker, fired from the Whitney in 1976 for championing living artists, and her decision to start her own museum on borrowed space and almost no money the following year. It traces her founding rule that the collection would be cleared out every decade so the institution could never grow stiff, and how that spirit shaped the SANAA-designed building of stacked, tilted boxes you're standing in now. Look for how the aluminum mesh cladding shifts color as the light changes through the day.
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