The New Museum

This week found me squiring an out-of-town friend, who is a visual artist, around New York. You know, friend comes to town, and you, as the New Yorker, make the great sacrifice of going to galleries and museums, doing those things you would never do otherwise.

So finally I made it to the New Museum, which isn't even that new anymore, having its roots in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened back in 1977. Here is the design note: they were still installing the current exhibit, which shows the work of artists under 30 years of age, but for half-price they let us come in and see about half the exhibit.



One installation, by Michael Blum, titled "Be(com)ing Dutch" represents "an Imagined Future where the museum itself serves as a fictional camp for Israeli refugees" in the year 2048. Complete with unmade cots and graffiti on the walls. It's interesting to look at this both in terms of art and in terms of design.For details on the museum, see http://www.newmuseum.org/

Comments

[alice809]

Nice to hear about this museum. I would love to travel to such a museum in future and have a glimpse of it.

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