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The Museum of Arts and Design is celebrating the opening of its fancy new building on Columbus Circle this weekend with free admission to the public. The new building increases MAD’s total space threefold and doubles the gallery space previously available to the museum at its former location on 53rd Street. The new MAD takes advantage of its prime spot at the center of the south side of the Circle with ribbons of glass along its exterior that allow natural light to illuminate the galleries while those inside have a clear view of Central Park.
The first featured exhibition at the new location is Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, which has works from over 50 artists who have taken mass-produced items and reimagined them as works of grandeur. Repurposing items from eyeglasses to high heels, the exhibit demonstrates how we can find beauty and a creative spark in the most mundane of objects.
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Looks like it will be featuring more crappy art as found at the Bowery location.
The "Bowery location" is the home of the New Museum. That museum is not related to the Museum of Arts and Design discussed in this post.
Why would anyone want to visit this place rather than MoMA?
Go, definitely go. If they're featuring Devorah Sperber's spools of thread portraits of Star Trek icons it's worth the trip.
well darn, I wish I'd known it free earlier than mid afternoon on the 2nd day, I would have gone to this! I'll still go on another day.
Is this the same as the old Museum of Contemporary Crafts? It has that feeling.
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Yet one more reason to rush hurriedly away from Columbus Circle.
The amount of non-art appreciators on this blog who hate on street art, deitch, swoon, and can't tell the difference between the MAD and the New Museum is ridiculous. Why don't you haters move back to kansas and stare @ dung as the wonderment that it is there?
Shouldn't they have a stuffed Huntington Hartford in the lobby, or at least a wax figure of him? Just to show respect.
This is even worse looking than what it replaced.