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LA Museums Continue Construction and Expansion Projects, Despite Pandemic

by Matt Stromberg May 14, 2020May 18, 2020

In California, all construction — including museum expansions — has been categorized as essential. While much of the art world is standing still, expansions at LACMA, the Hammer, and other museums are prompting both questions and criticisms.

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Gauging the Possibilities of Impermanence at the New MoMA

Avatar photo by Laura Raicovich January 9, 2020January 9, 2020

MoMA’s recent expansion embodies the tension between the ways in which cultural spaces can offer visitors comfortable narratives and on the other, how they can suggest the potential for radical inclusiveness by iteration, reinvention, and reinstallation.

Posted inArt

Reimagining Museum Design, With Education at the Forefront

Avatar photo by Hakan Topal December 18, 2019December 19, 2019

It’s time to conceive of museums as social, educational centers with libraries, classrooms, gathering spaces where everyone — especially young people — love to hang out.

Posted inArt

The New MoMA: A Mix of Innovative Choices and Missed Opportunities

Avatar photo by Ilana Novick October 18, 2019October 21, 2019

The renovation aims to be big enough to not only hold the institution’s art, but its promises.

Posted inOpinion

Rethinking the “Bigger Is Better” Museum Model

Avatar photo by Laura Raicovich June 20, 2019August 30, 2019

Current museum expansions are hung up on the concept of size. Instead, could we rethink the “grow or die” museum mentality of the 1990s and 2000s?

Posted inArt

What Will Be the Ripple Effects of the ICA Boston’s Expansion Across the Harbor?

by Heather Kapplow June 29, 2018

With its new Watershed space, the ICA has to navigate a delicate balance of bringing art into East Boston without displacing the communities and artists already there.

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Glimpse the Orange County Museum of Art’s Future and Futuristic Home

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino June 21, 2018

The shiny new building, designed by Morphosis Architects, will double the museum’s exhibition space when it opens in 2021.

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As MoMA Expands, Galleries Devoted to Specific Disciplines May Disappear [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon April 12, 2016April 25, 2016

As part of its ongoing plans to renovate and expand its building, the Museum of Modern Art will reconfigure its third floor, which currently houses its Architecture and Design, Photography, and Drawings galleries — a move that may drastically reduce the number of rooms in the museum devoted to specific media.

Posted inArt

The Metropolitan Museum Is Still Very Eurocentric and Conservative

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian March 1, 2016March 9, 2016

If you thought the Eurocentric gods may have been toppled from their comfortable perches at the top of Mt. Met, you’ll be sorely disappointed.

Posted inIn Brief

MoMA Unveils Unfun Revision of Its $400 Million Redesign

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne January 27, 2016January 31, 2016

In disappointing news for those excited for a futuristic new Museum of Modern Art with retractable glass walls and moving floors, the museum has just unveiled scaled-back plans for its upcoming renovation.

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Gaily Forward! The US’s Only Museum of LGBTQ Art Is Doubling in Size

by Claire Voon September 17, 2015September 20, 2015

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art announced yesterday a major expansion of its current Soho space that will result in the near doubling of the young institution’s footprint.

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What Will the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Expansion Achieve?

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney July 15, 2015July 16, 2015

Given the Studio Museum’s unique position in the city’s arts and culture landscape, this rebuild, the first since the museum took up residence in its current space in 1982, seems to indeed be a cause to celebrate.

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