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In 2011, Amanda Echeverría, Catalina Lozano, and Daniela Pérez cofounded de_sitio, a nonprofit platform based in Mexico City committed to supporting the development of contemporary art projects. The… Read more

How to write about an event in another city when my memory has been interrupted by a devastating event in my own city? Is there a connection between out-of-control urban transformation in Istanbul and… Read more

The New Museum took its movable project, IDEAS CITY, to Istanbul—invited there by the Istanbul Design Biennial and sponsored by Audi Urban Future Initiative. We hosted a keynote address by Amanda Burden,… Read more

New York is a truly “global city” and Istanbul is rapidly becoming one as numerous figures indicate. Istanbul is one of the twenty most visited cities in the world, ranked ninth in terms of international… Read more

As the design community descended upon Istanbul for its inaugural Design Biennial, the New Museum presented IDEAS CITY: Istanbul—a three-day conference exploring the future of cities around the globe… Read more

As part of a conversation supported by the Museum as Hub initiative, I was invited to share some images and thoughts about the exhibition “Edificio Metálico,” which offer insight into the exhibition… Read more

One of the themes of the New Museum’s recent exhibition “Ghosts in the Machine” was the complicated and ongoing relationship between artists and scientists working in a variety of fields. The exhibition… Read more

The symbolism of São Paulo’s Copan Building is incongruous. Like so many historic landmarks, the events it has survived are at odds with the vision upon which it was founded. Built between 1957 and… Read more

He had appeared out of nowhere, observing me with squinted eyes. He started waving at me, agitatedly signaling that I should follow him. The Turkish flatbread seller was not thin so his entire body wobbled.… Read more

The Louisiana is one of my favorite museums of modern art. At the end of the summer, I had a chance to visit this glorious and romantic setting for art, architecture, and nature overlooking the Øresund… Read more

As the London 2012 Olympics came to a close, the tamer 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by English architect David Chipperfield, opened in late August. The various national pavilions jostled… Read more

Rick Herron, Assistant Manager of Visitor Services at the New Museum, recently visited Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany. For Six Degrees, he has put together a selection of photos of the exhibition. Documenta… Read more

“Difference” is a way of being in the world, and as such it represents a prospect of individual and collective empowerment, social and political enrichment, and freedom. Freedom implies the sovereignty… Read more

In April of 2010, the curator/art historian Miwon Kwon gave the talk “Ends of the Earth (and Back)” at the New Museum. This talk was a part of the Museum’s Propositions series, a public forum for… Read more

In 2006, the New Museum began research to develop the Museum as Hub. The initiative’s first manifestation at the New Museum, “Museum as Hub: An Introduction,” opened in December 2007, bringing together… Read more

On a whim last week, a colleague, architect Florian Idenburg, and I boarded a train headed for Philadelphia. We cobbled an itinerary together: Stefan Sagmeister’s “The Happy Show” at the Institute… Read more

The exhibition of Marisa Merz’s work at the Fondazione Merz in Turin is a remarkable event. For this rarely seen artist, there is a lavish amount of work on display, with exquisite drawings and daring… Read more

“Intense Proximité/y,” the third Paris Triennial organized by Artistic Director Okwui Enwezor, “sets off on a journey to explore the nodes where art and ethnography converge in a renewal of fascination… Read more

Lately, I have been enjoying traveling across time. There is always a strange pressure on curators of contemporary art: they are expected to travel to the most exotic corners of the world and know as much… Read more

Otto Piene, the eighty-four-year-old German artist who founded the collective ZERO and is revered for his series of works called “Light Ballet,” recently spoke about his career in a conversation… Read more