Museum as Hub
“Museum as Hub: Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet,” 2011. Exhibition view: New Museum. Photo: Naho Kubota
The Museum as Hub supports innovative and emergent projects in contemporary art. As both a physical site and a growing network, the Museum as Hub facilitates artistic and intellectual exchange through forms of exhibition, residency, public programming, editorial and digital projects, and other projects. Through development of contemporary art practices, the Museum as Hub aims to catalyze future exchange and activity internationally.
Since its launch in 2007 by the New Museum, the Museum as Hub initiative has worked closely with a group of founding partner institutions—art space pool, Seoul, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven—to produce diverse programming at the New Museum and internationally. Museum as Hub programming includes:
- Exhibitions that have presented important art and ideas from around the world. These have been organized by the New Museum and Hub partners, as well as a growing network of international spaces and initiatives that includes the Beirut Art Center, Bidoun, and the Center for Historical Re-enactments in Johannesburg.
- Public programs, including the signature series Propositions, a seminar that invites an artist, curator, or thinker to explore an idea currently in development.
- Residencies with artists and art spaces that facilitate new projects and long-term, in-depth relationships with participants. Residencies have culminated variously in publications, public discussions and performances, and new installations.
- Art Spaces Directory, which is available both online as an interactive map and offline in the Art Spaces Directory book.
- Digital Initiatives, which build on the knowledge-sharing and research aspects of the Hub. View our ongoing editorial on international projects on our Six Degrees blog and online art through First Look.
Sponsorship
Museum as Hub is made possible by
Museum as Hub and public programs are made possible, in part, by
Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
Education and public programs are made possible by a generous grant from Goldman Sachs Gives at the recommendation of David B. Heller & Hermine Riegerl Heller.
Museum as Hub Residency Program is made possible through the lead support of
Additional funding is provided by Laurie Wolfert.