Visitors to this contemporary art museum can take free, docent-led public tours of the current exhibitions. During these highlights tours, visitors will hear about the work on display and the architecture of the building.
The maximum size of group is 15 (first-come, first-served basis). Meet in the lobby-level Glass Gallery five minutes prior to the tour.
This museum of contemporary art focuses primarily on work of living artists created during the past 10 years. Each year the museum mounts three to four major exhibitions and about 12 smaller shows in its galleries.
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New Museum Visionaries Series: Maya Lin
Wed, May 30, 2012 A committed environmentalist, Maya Lin is at work on her last memorial, What is Missing?, a multi-sited artwork that raises awareness about the current crisis surrounding biodiversity and habitat loss. At this discussion with Lin, learn how What is Missing? will focus attention on species and places that are now extinct or will most likely disappear within our lifetime.
Fri, April 20, 2012 – Sun, July 1, 2012 "Nacht und Nebel" is based on an interview Gal conducted with Michael Goldman—a Holocaust survivor and one of the policemen who took part in a secret mission to dispose of the remains of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in 1962.
Wed, May 2, 2012 – Sun, June 24, 2012 “Phyllida Barlow: siege” is the first New York solo exhibition of the work of the British sculptor. For her New Museum presentation, Barlow creates a new, site-specific sculptural installation in the museum’s fourth floor gallery.