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New Museum New Art, New Ideas http://www.newmuseum.org The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art.
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Found­ed in 1977, the New Museum is a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living art­ists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street to the inauguration of its first freestanding building on the Bowery designed by SANAA in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

08/26/2026

Take a closer look at ’s “Out of Body” (2025). 👁️ Their research-based practice explores the biopolitics of waste and reproductive science through filmmaking, performance, writing, and artistic collaboration.
 
“Out of Body” surveys infrastructures designed to contain and control liquid matter. With hypnotic shots of fluids flowing, boiling, cascading, and dripping across the screen, the film considers how biomedical technologies and waste management systems blur boundaries between human, animal, and machine. 
 
Visitors can still experience this video work in the “Reproductive Futures” section of the exhibition “New Humans: Memories of the Future” through August 30. Plan your visit today using the link in bio 🔗

Calling on Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani! 👀 Our city's youth have changes they wanna see too!💡 At one of our last free Fami...
08/21/2026

Calling on Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani! 👀 Our city's youth have changes they wanna see too!💡 At one of our last free Family Days, we asked children to imagine what the future of New York City looks like. Inspired by themes in the "Future Cities" section of our ongoing exhibition "New Humans," they suggested improvements like more green spaces, public bathrooms, and magnetic sidewalks for hoverboards.

All visitors are invited to join us this weekend for another imaginative hands-on art making experience inspired by the exhibition to create their own human-machine-animal hybrid creatures in Sky Studio on Saturday August 22 from 2–5pm.

P.S. 🫣 Admission for visitors 18 and under is always free!

Visitors can still see the work of Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola in the "Automatic Women" section of the e...
08/19/2026

Visitors can still see the work of Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola in the "Automatic Women" section of the exhibition "New Humans: Memories of the Future" through August 30.

Ojih Odutola's epic cycle "A Countervailing Theory" (2019) posits a speculative world set in central Nigeria’s Jos Plateau. She imagines a ruling class of Black women and a laboring class of Black male humanoids.Their narrative unfolds in a series of black-and-white drawings, in which the artist probes the colonial imagination, exploring how power plays out across gender and class.

Plan your visit to "New Humans" and learn about the New Museum's next round of exhibitions ➡️ https://www.newmuseum.org/upcoming-exhibitions/

Please note "New Humans" remains on partial view through August 30, 2026. This work is currently on view on the Second Floor of the New Museum. The Third Floor Galleries will remain open through August 23, and the 2nd Floor Galleries will close on August 30.

We at the New Museum are saddened to learn about the passing of the pioneering painter and longtime Bowery neighborhood ...
08/16/2026

We at the New Museum are saddened to learn about the passing of the pioneering painter and longtime Bowery neighborhood resident Mary Heilmann.

In 2008, the New Museum hosted the first solo exhibition of Heilmann's work in a New York museum, "To Be Someone," which was organized by the Orange County Museum of Art. Heilmann's free abstractions, combined with an element of autobiography, made her paintings highly influential to a younger generation of artists.

A former surfer who hung out at Max's Kansas City through the 70s, she was a rare combination of punk attitude and colorful energy. Heilmann brought pleasure and beauty back into painting just when everybody thought it was dead.

We honor Heilmann's incredible legacy and send condolences to her friends, family, and community.

You can hear Heilmann speak about how moving to the Bowery influenced her shift from sculpture to painting via the Bowery Artist Tribute: https://archive.newmuseum.org/videos/10316

Visitors can still see the work of artist Miriam Cahn in the "Becoming Animal" section of the exhibition "New Humans: Me...
08/12/2026

Visitors can still see the work of artist Miriam Cahn in the "Becoming Animal" section of the exhibition "New Humans: Memories of the Future" through August 23.

Paintings by Cahn often depict power relations between perpetrator and victim, confronting the brutality of war, human rights abuses, and gendered violence. With soft, fluid brushstrokes and bursts of luminous color that seem to radiate from the canvas, Cahn’s unsettling dreamscapes capture the psychological effects of trauma.

"Vögelchen [Little bird]" (2005) depicts a small white bird with a triangular pointed beak and a translucent, almost spectral body. Set against a dark, empty background, Cahn’s bird appears to occupy a void, alone and fragile in a sinister environment.

Plan your visit to "New Humans" and learn about the New Museum's next round of exhibitions at the link in bio 🔗

Please note this work is currently on view on the 3rd Floor of the New Museum. The 3rd Floor Galleries will remain open through August 23, and the 2nd Floor Galleries will close on August 30.

Last Chance Extended! | The "Hall of Robots" may be closed, but visitors can still experience the Second and Third Floor...
08/11/2026

Last Chance Extended! | The "Hall of Robots" may be closed, but visitors can still experience the Second and Third Floor Galleries of the exhibition "New Humans: Memories of the Future" through August 30.

There are nearly a dozen galleries with work on view by artists such as Francis Bacon, Simon Denny, Cyprien Gaillard, Alberto Giacometti, Camille Henrot, Pierre Huyghe, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Tau Lewis, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Cato Ouyang, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, WangShui, and many more.

Plus, check out our newly expanded building and site-specific artworks on view such as Klára Hosnedlová's "Shelter" in the Atrium Stair, Sarah Lucas' "VENUS VICTORIA" in the plaza, Tschabalala Self's "Art Lovers" on the New Museum's facade.

Plan your visit today ➡️ https://www.newmuseum.org/visit/

Please note the Fourth Floor Galleries of "New Humans: Memories of the Future" closed on August 9. The Third Floor Galleries will remain open through August 23, and the Second Floor Galleries will close on August 30.

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