If you love exploring the city’s best exhibits, you’ll be pleased to know the New Museum reopening is slated for fall 2025.
After being closed for one year, the Bowery staple will open its doors following its $82 million undertaking: a 60,000-square-foot expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas. According to the iconic NYC museum, “This new structure will complement and be seamlessly integrated with the Museum’s SANAA-designed flagship building while doubling our exhibition space, creating new venues for artist residencies and public programs, and establishing a permanent home for our cultural incubator NEW INC.”
Visitors will be able to enjoy twice as much artwork, a full-service restaurant, scenic terraces, and more. To welcome its new era, the museum will debut “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” an exhibit that explores how social and technological developments have inspired evolving definitions of the ’human’, according to a statement.
After a day of downtown museum-hopping, art lovers will want to consider an uptown adventure this fall as well, as the Studio Museum in Harlem is also returning. The first show plans to be a deep dive of artist, educator, and activist Tom Lloyd’s work, a full-circle moment considering he was the artist behind the institution’s opening exhibition in 1968.
Ahead of the these exciting returns to the NYC art scene, be sure to explore what’s happening at our favorite museums and art galleries.