NEW MUSEUM

Target 30 Free Hours

WHEN: Beginning at noon on Saturday, December 1st, and continuing overnight and through the following day until Sunday, December 2nd at 6 p.m.

WHERE: 235 Bowery, (at Prince Street between Stanton and Rivington Streets, one and a half blocks south of Houston)

HOW: In order to avoid long lines and guarantee admission, free tickets are required. Get your free tickets here or go to : http://www.museumtix.com/venue/program.asp?pvt=&vid=726&pid=1351997&code=

The anticipated opening of the new home for the NEW MUSEUM is on Saturday, December 1st.
1999 was a turning point for the New Museum, with Lisa Phillips succeeding Marcia Tucker as its second director. While remaining true to the New Museum’s historic commitments, Phillips has worked to bring the institution into the 21st century. The first years of her tenure witnessed the inauguration of the Media Z Lounge, which replaced the public access gallery as the Museum’s free-admission exhibition space. Furthering the New Museum’s longstanding engagement with changing concepts of artistic and exhibition practices, the Media Lounge represents an unprecedented investigation of digital media’s impact on contemporary art and visual culture, at a moment when these effects are only beginning to be explored by the society producing them. Under Phillips’ aegis, the New Museum has also continued to mount seminal solo exhibitions by contemporary artists renown for their convention-defying aesthetics, notably William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Carroll Dunham, and Andrea Zittel.
Above all, Phillips’ directorship has been marked by its bold vision of a new home for the New Museum. In December 2002, the New Museum announced its plans to construct a state-of-the-art facility at 235 Bowery. Six months later, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the critically acclaimed SANAA firm were selected to design the new 60,000-square-foot building, which broke ground in October 2005 Opens Saturday.

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