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New Museum, New York (Paperback, With the Archit)
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When the New Museum, long a champion of downtown New York culture
and unconventional art, announced that it would build itself a new
home on the Bowery--a mostly bleak strip of flophouses and
restaurant-supply storefronts--the art world wondered what this
move would mean for the museum, and, just as important, how the
museum would look. Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue
Nishizawa of SANAA (winners of the 2010 Pritzker Prize) received
the commission in 2002; their new New Museum, which opened in
December 2007, looks like a dramatic tower of seven rectangular
boxes, stacked irregularly atop one another with edges protruding
to the sides and front, and clad in a seamless anodized-aluminum
mesh that dresses the whole of the building in a delicate, filmy,
softly shimmering skin. With windows just visible behind this
porous scrimlike surface, the building appears as a single,
coherent and even heroic form that is nevertheless mutable, dynamic
and animated by the changing light of day--an appropriate visual
metaphor for the openness of the New Museum and the ever-changing
nature of contemporary art. This monograph treats the institution's
design and construction in depth, through images, writings and an
interview with the architects.
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