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New Museum of Contemporary Art

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Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence

Avatar photo by Rachell Morillo March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

A prophetic document of our time, the New Museum exhibition calls attention to the weight of Black death not because it is new or salacious but because it remains urgent.

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Nomad MFA Course Culminates With Fourth Episode of Hydrofeminist METitations Podcast

by University of Hartford November 19, 2020December 15, 2020

First-year grad students produced this episode of the listening series, which originated as part of Ensayos’s “Coastal Curriculum” during the collective’s residency at the New Museum.

Posted inArt

Peter Saul, American Gadfly

by John Yau October 31, 2020November 5, 2020

Before he turned 30, it was clear that Saul had found his subject: an American society deeply rooted in consumerism, pervasive racism, and toxic masculinity.

Posted inArt

Hear Hans Haacke Discuss His Six-Decade Career

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas October 22, 2019October 22, 2019

The artist is nothing if not defiant, and his talk at the New York’s New Museum will introduce his first major U.S. exhibition in 33 years.

Posted inIn Brief

New Museum Union Workers Threaten a Strike Over Contract Negotiations

by Hakim Bishara September 30, 2019March 8, 2023

The workers voted by a 96% margin to authorize a strike if their demands for higher wages, health care benefits, and improved worker safety are not met.

Posted inIn Brief

The New Museum’s Bathroom Nominated as “America’s Best Restroom”

by Hakim Bishara August 7, 2019

A national competition rates the best restrooms in the United States. Among its finalists are the NYC museum’s colorfully designed washrooms.

Posted inArt

Nari Ward’s Angels in America

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk March 16, 2019March 15, 2019

Ward doesn’t just utilize found objects; he communicates with them — intellectually, visually, soulfully.

Posted inArt

The Power of Color in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Paintings

by Serubiri Moses June 15, 2017June 14, 2017

New portraits by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, on view at the New Museum, reveal how the artist uses color to launch into the mind and psychology of her fictional characters.

Posted inArt

Death Wish: Raymond Pettibon at the New Museum

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli February 11, 2017April 3, 2017

Pettibon’s real subject is not the hypocrisy, mendacity, and stupidity of political leaders, but the Thanatos-driven impulses that compel us to empower those leaders in the first place.

Posted inArt

The Extravagant Intimacy of Pipilotti Rist

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli October 29, 2016February 10, 2017

The New Museum seems to have taken it upon itself to produce spectacles that are as moving as they are eye-filling. Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest is something else again.

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The Dicks We Grope to Get Ahead

by Daniel Larkin June 13, 2016June 14, 2016

A rock-climbing wall is covered with penises at the New Museum.

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