The New Museum's Bowery space still has that "new museum smell" to it, not even a year old, but they have just announced they've already acquired their next door neighbor, the building at 231 Bowery. They note in their press release that "The 47,000-square-foot, five-story structure is located directly south of the New Museum. The availability of an adjacent property is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a dynamic and growing institution." They have noted, however, that......

The New Museum unveiled its new exhibit, After Nature, yesterday. Running through September 21st, they say it's a departure from "the fictional documentaries of Werner Herzog" and instead draws inspiration (and its title) from W.G. Sebald's book...though rapture, ruins and environmental disasters also acted as muses. Bringing together 26 international artists on three gallery floors, expect to take in paintings, photographs, installations, films, writings, and living sculptures. Perhaps the most jarring piece is the headless......

Instead of a lengthy 2007 “best of” food list, we proudly present you (via The Gurgling Cod) with this single edible, the latest and hopefully last stunt luxury foodstuff in a year remorselessly filled with them. It comes, somewhat improbably and definitely ironically, from the gift shop at the newly opened New Museum, and it’s got karats: Edible gold crumbled into capsules, a massive $275 for the starter set. Shown here to the left, a......

It's been a busy month for NY Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff. After tackling Jean Nouvel's skyscraper, Renzo Piano's Times building and the West Side Rail Yards designs, today he turns to the feverishly celebrated New Museum, previewed yesterday by Gothamist. Designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Japan-based SANAA, the highly refined seven-story, 174-foot building succeeds, says Ouroussoff, on a "spectacular range of levels: as a hypnotic urban object, as a subtle......

Beginning at noon this Saturday the New Museum will open its new doors, but this morning we snuck a peak inside. The gray aluminum mesh exterior of the building is a whimsical stack of rectilinear boxes shifted off-axis, not unlike a pile of blocks arranged haphazardly by a toddler. It's a bold, dynamic presence on the Bowery and, along with the Bowery Hotel, signifies yet another firm step away from the area's gritty past.......

Notice anything funny about the Calvin Klein billboard below? No, not the hot pink splashing. The giant ad that hangs above Lafayette and Houston has a secret in the "negative space" left by the splashed paint. The silhouette is of the new New Museum building on Bowery. Here is what the billboard looked like over the past few days up until last night: And as Josh Spear pointed out yesterday a "stage 3 reveal" took......

Last year we started to see renderings of the New Museum's new digs on Bowery, and now they're just about ready to open their shiny new doors. On December 1st (coinciding with the institution's 30th anniversary) the SANAA-designed building will don the artist Ugo Rondinone's HELL, YES! sign, welcoming art patrons city-wide while adding a little chaos to the refined building. Below are some exterior shots (Rondinone's sign photoshopped on) and a rendering of the......

The New Museum wants us all to get lost. Well, not really, but they did recently ask 21 artists worldwide to get their image of New York down on paper for their exhibit, Get Lost. The personal viewpoints and maps of downtown New York cover territory that is both real and imagined (including fictional landscapes, utopian visions, private memories, and obsessive instructions), so if you follow one - you'd surely get lost (but in an......

With 2006 coming to a close, there's a lot to look forward to in the new year. Some expected highlights: Museums: The New Museum on Bowery will be opening. Yes, it's another oddly shaped building that will stick out amongst the old lighting and restaurant supply shops in the area, but we're all for more art downtown. This museum will be bringing more of the uptown art world, below 14th. Venues: This year we saw......

THEATER: The Pearl Theatre Company, known for their deft handling of classic plays, has revived Molière's satire School for Wives. The play deliciously skewers the aristocrat Arnolphe, who so fears he’ll marry an unfaithful woman that he locks a little girl in a convent for 13 years, keeping her utterly isolated until she comes of age. The hi-jinks begin when he’s finally ready to fulfill his master marriage plan and finds himself outmaneuvered by a......

DISCUSSION: A performance artist, an art critic, an art scholar, a restaurateur, and a gallery owner all walk in to a bar...Oh wait, that's not the beginning of a joke. Those creative types will all be at The New Museum tonight though for their Hot Button! discussion series. Find out their motivation behind the craft. What will win, love or money? 6:30 to 8pm // Cooper Union [7 E 7th St // $6 THEATER: Bhutan......

-- If you like bagels and butt-holes, then this story is for you. Everyone else: look away! -- Curbed visits the disturbingly asymmetric New Museum development on Bowery-- when will buildings look normal again? -- Hilarious: One of Blogger's default templates makes the window at Saks 5th Avenue. -- Does "depraved indifference" homicide warrant 25 years to life? In this case, being totally drunk, driving your car on the wrong side of a highway......

THEATER: Though some might balk at an outdoor performance in this muggy, thunderstormy weather, The Drilling CompaNY's version of As You Like It, the next installment of Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot (directed by Jesse Ontiveros), is bound to exude enough cool to counteract the waves of heat rising from the asphalt. It also helps if you show up with your own chair so you don't have to exert yourself in a scuffle to nab......

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In addition to the two great events we mentioned earlier, there are also a number of other worthwhile art happenings going on this week. Plenty in fact to satisfy even the most dedicated fine art junkie. On both June 23rd and June 27th, the Public Art Fund will be presenting 9 Drawings for Projection, a outdoor performance and film screening of short animated films by renowned South African artist William Kentridge. The films, from Kentridge's......

Well, it's finally here. That day we've all be eagerly anticipating since last year, hoping and praying for its joyous return. Yes, it's....THE DAY AFTER TAX DAY! Now, if you are anything like Gothamist the only IRA you are intimately acquainted with is your uncle from Wantagh, and at some point in the past year your well-intentioned attempt to file your receipts gave way to the much grander plan of making the World's Largest Ball......

As many can tell, sometimes Gothamist doesn't have the greatest grasp on the ABC's. Luckily, there is Michael DeFeo's children's book, Alphabet City, which teaches kids (and bloggers) how to recognize words, using DeFeo's street art. DeFeo pasted drawings of different objects, like ladders or tomatoes, onto the walls of NYC buildings and photographed them. What's pretty is awesmoe is that DeFeo, a street artist and high school fine arts teacher, has a map of......

Running through August 14th is the Counter Culture exhibition/walking tour. This caught our attention over at Gothamist for a number of reasons. Mainly the many ways you can go about participating in it. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. The tour itself dives into the history of the Bowery neighborhood during the skid row era (that roughly spanned from the 1890's to the 1950's...yeah, we didn't know it lasted that long either). Six artists......

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In another case of art picking up after commerce, Altoids commissioned a series of art work from five different contemporary artists to give the new Altoids Strips a new spin. The "Curiously Strong Comic Strip Series" has different imaginings of the breath strips from Beth Campbell, Erik Hanson, Dave Muller, Dave Rathman and Wayne White, and the artwork is being auctioned off on eBay until September 4. The highest bid will be matched by Altoids......

The New Museum has a new exhibit by Jos� Antonio Hern�ndez-Diez. There are fourteen installations shown, but Times food writer Amanda Hesser is intrigued by one in particular: "The Brotherhood" which has skateboards made out of pork rinds. Hern�ndez-Diez explainsher that pork rinds are street food, the streets are the playground of skateboards. Also, Hern�ndez-Diez and a chicharr�n maker actually fried skateboard shaped rinds. Skateboard shaped rinds. That's some big pig. Hern�ndez-Diez will be speaking......

Some of my friends at the great design agency Honest did the new New Museum of Contemporary Art site... I like it. Very new looking and white.......