New Museum

11/27/2023

"Judy Chicago: Herstory" has been extended through March 3, 2024! bit.ly/JudyChicagoHerstory

Don't miss the exhibition the critics have been calling "exhilarating" and "timely":

11/23/2023

🦃 The New Museum is closed today. We're thankful for our community and look forward to seeing you tomorrow when we reopen at 11 a.m.!

11/22/2023

Friends and neighbors! Join us for Community Day on Dec. 2, including admission and a day of creativity and exploration inspired by the exhibition, "Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New."

Organized with and hosted by , Community Day features artmaking, wellness workshops, a clothing drive, and a health resources fair in the Sky Room Room from our community partners:








Reserve your free ticket at the link in our bio. Don't forget to bring gently used clothing for the clothing drive!

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11/21/2023

We are proud to partner with for Day With(out) Art 2023. Honor World AIDS day on December 1 with the day-long screening of "Everyone I Know Is Sick," featuring five new videos that explore the connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability by Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria, Dorothy Cheung, Beau Gomez, Kurt Weston, and Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento.

Day With(out) Art is a day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis today on World AIDS Day. Because AIDS is not over!

This program is free with registration at the link in our bio.

11/20/2023

We're thrilled to announce that Camilo Godoy will be the New Museum's 2023-24 Artist-in-Residence! Using movement to experiment with the representation of mourning and survival, Godoy's choreographic exploration draws on dance histories as well as his own archive of gestures sourced from ancient erotic art, colonial visual culture, po*******hy, medicine, and dance rehearsals.

Throughout his residency, Godoy will invite the public to join this evolving process through interactive workshops, performances, and discussions. Watch this space for more details.

11/18/2023

Visitors to the exhibition, "Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New," may encounter the artist lounging on a bed, sitting at her desk, or hosting guests in a restaging of her bedroom. Playing with visibility and performativity, Kuriki-Olivo has installed “smart glass” that she can turn on or off to obscure or reveal her activities within this central section of the gallery. When the artist is present, visitors can observe her through the glass (if Kuriki-Olivo allows), or through two CCTV-style cameras that are also constantly filming her. When she is offsite, viewers can still follow her actions via a live video feed that is periodically streamed into the Museum’s Lobby.

This installation marks a sharp pivot in Kuriki-Olivo's practice away from anonymity and towards radical visibility and (literal) transparency. As a whole, "Nothing New" evokes complex layers of intimacy, pointing to both Kuriki-Olivo’s lived experiences and the societal and technological apparatuses by which we relate to ourselves and each other.

📷 “Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New,” 2023. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni;

11/17/2023

End (or start) the year in style! Looking for a venue as contemporary and modern as you? Rent the New Museum to take your event to the next level. From inventive holiday parties that spark new traditions to impossibly chic fashion week events that will be the season's most sought-after invite, entertain your guests in a cutting-edge, downtown setting sure to impress.

Get in touch at the link in our bio to learn more!

11/08/2023

The artist Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivio (aka Puppies Puppies) enters her exhibition, "Nothing New," through a traditional Japanese torii gate. She then passes by a rock garden inspired by Ryōan-ji (the Temple of the Dragon at Peace) in Kyoto, Japan, before arriving at the central vignette, a duplicate of her bedroom.

Like the garden at Ryōan-ji, Kuriki-Olivo’s rock garden is both an abstract composition of natural elements and a space for meditation and reflection—a prime example of the Japanese concept of wabi sabi, the appreciation for the ephemeral or fleeting. For the artist—whose lineage is both Japanese and Taíno—the simplicity and ephemerality of the rock garden is also deeply intertwined with her personal history. This installation is emblematic of how Kuriki-Olivo repurposes readymade or found elements, including cultural sites, to build a personal mythology.

📷 “Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New,” 2023. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni

10/31/2023

Why were there no images of birth?

This question inspired artist Judy Chicago to launch "The Birth Project" (1980-85). On November 9, "Birth: A Convening on Art and Human Reproduction" revisits this critical area of research and artmaking. Tickets: https://bit.ly/3MlyL0S

10/27/2023

Calling all families! You’re invited to New Museum Family Day on Sunday, November 5. Explore the shapes and colors of Judy Chicago's work, then create your own work of art. Free with registration: http://bit.ly/NewMuseumFamilyDay

10/26/2023

The paintings of Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint are considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history, predating canonical male abstract artists Kazimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and František Kupka by several years.

Join us today to celebrate the 161th anniversary of Af Klint's birth! See her work on view in "Judy Chicago: Herstory," where her painting "Group IX/UW, The Dove, no. 2" (1915) is presented within "The City of Ladies," a group installation displaying Chicago’s work alongside artworks by nearly 90 women and genderq***r artists, writers, and historical figures that she has placed within her own alternative canon.

Hilma af Klint, "Group IX/UW, The dove, no.2," 1915. Oil on canvas © The Hilma af Klint Foundation. “Judy Chicago: Herstory,” Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni

10/25/2023

How can AI be used as an equitable creative tool? INC and celebrate the launch of Seen’s 6th issue at the New Museum with a program that goes beyond the noise and doomsday predictions dominating narratives about AI, instead offering a glimpse into the next phase of policy-making, industry standards, and media aesthetics.

On Wednesday, November 1 at 7 p.m., writer and critic Clarkisha Kent () moderates a conversation on the rapid development of AI in the context of the twin strikes by the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). Lightning talks and project demos featuring American Artist (), Linda Powell (), Stephanie Dinkins (.dinkins), and Suneil Sanzgiri () will reflect on the social impact of these emerging technologies.

10/21/2023

Artificial Ingelligence (AI) is here, but what are its implications for digital art practice? Our digital art affiliate, Rhizome, presents Neural Net Aesthetics, a panel exploring AI and digital art that brings together artists Refik Anadol Studio, Maya Man, and Eileen Isagon Skyers, moderated by Rhizome Co-Executive Director, Michael Connor.

Join us on Thursday, October 26 at 6 p.m. via livestream: https://bit.ly/3Fp4ydr

Image: Courtesy Refik Anadol Studio

On October 26, 6 p.m., Rhizome, the Museum’s digital art affiliate, presents Neural Net Aesthetics, a panel exploring Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its relationship to digital art practice. This discussion brings together artists Refik Anadol, Maya Man, and Eileen Isagon Skyers, and will be mod...

10/17/2023

Past work by Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo, widely known by the moniker Puppies Puppies, centered a refusal to be seen through her use of proxies, avatars, and performances in absentia. But in “Nothing New,” her first solo exhibition in New York, Puppies Puppies invites visitors to experience her life while she inhabits the Lobby Gallery. Using a fogging glass mechanism that reveals or obscures her activities when in the gallery—which includes a replica of her bedroom—Puppies Puppies plays with the trappings of visibility, representation, and cultural consumption. Cameras also film her as she moves between the Museum and her apartment (located a few blocks away) and navigates day-to-day life in the city, bluring the boundaries between the artist's public and private life while also destabilizing the distinctions between URL and IRL existence.

See Puppies Puppies in "Nothing New," now on view! Link to tickets in bio.

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10/14/2023

Now entering: "The City of Ladies"

On the Fourth Floor of "Judy Chicago: Herstory," a total installation featuring Judy Chicago's embroideries, sculptures, drawings, and carpet design simultaneously contextualizes the artist's practice and breaks the patriarchal art historical paradigm.

Bringing together artworks and archival materials from more than 80 women and genderq***r artists, writers, and cultural figures including—Hilma af Klint, Hildegard von Bingen, Claude Cahun, Elizabeth Catlett, Simone de Beauvoir, Artemisia Gentileschi, Emma Goldman, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charlotte Salomon, Remedios Varo, and Virginia Woolf, among others—"City of Ladies" is a testament to Chicago’s manifold contributions as an activist, researcher, and cultural preservationist throughout her sixty-year career. bit.ly/JudyChicagoHerstory

10/13/2023

"Judy Chicago makes Herstory," writes The New York Times in their profile of the pioneering feminist artist, whose six-decade survey just opened at the New Museum.

"Now...the art world is paying attention to what she has been saying: that when art by women is viewed holistically, through the arc of history, it can shake everything—us—to the core."

The pioneering feminist artist rules the New Museum with a six-decade survey, but she shares the stage with her sisterhood.

10/12/2023

JUDY CHICAGO: HERSTORY OPENS TODAY

Taking over four floors of the New Museum, “Herstory” is the first comprehensive New York museum survey of work by Judy Chicago. The exhibition brings together six decades of the artist’s work, as well as an exhibition-within-the-exhibition spotlighting women essential to the history of art and Chicago’s own practice, from Artemisia Gentileschi to Georgia O'Keeffe.

“Herstory” is the first comprehensive New York museum survey of work by Judy Chicago (b. 1939, Chicago, IL).

10/11/2023

Judy Chicago—Live from the New Museum!

On Thursday, October 12, 6:30 pm EST, join us to celebrate the opening of "Judy Chicago: Herstory" as the artist reflects on her sixty-year career and pioneering role in feminist art in conversation with exhibition curator Massimiliano Gioni.

Register for the live stream:

Celebrate the opening of Judy Chicago’s career‑spanning exhibition, “Herstory.” The artist will join Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, to reflect on her six‑decade career, her pioneering role in feminist art and discourse, and “City of Ladies,” the “exhibition-withi...

10/03/2023

H̶I̶S̶T̶O̶R̶Y̶ HERSTORY

The countdown to "Judy Chicago: Herstory" begins.
Opening October 12 at the New Museum: newmu.org/herstory

Image: Judy Chicago, "Immolation," 1972. Archival pigment print. ©️ Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy the artist

10/02/2023

“Art history is a patriarchal paradigm.”—Judy Chicago

Opening on October 12, Judy Chicago tells “Herstory” in the first comprehensive New York museum survey spanning the artist’s sixty-year career. Discover Chicago’s tremendous impact on American art and her critical role in claiming space for women artists previously omitted from the canon: newmu.org/herstory

09/22/2023

📣 We're thrilled to announce NEW INC's tenth-anniversary cohort! Working at the intersection of art, design, technology, and entrepreneurship, this dynamic group of new members includes individual practitioners, collectives, studios, nonprofits, and startups. Over the next year, they will participate in NEW INC's yearlong program that focuses on values-centered business education curriculum and mentorship and includes opportunities to showcase their work to the public.

Meet the new track members:

🧑‍💻 Art & Code is centered around redefining cultural and digital landscapes in collaboration with Rhizome ().

🧪 Creative Science employs modes of scientific inquiry to advance creativity and storytelling.

👾 Extended Realities works on expanding the artistic potential for technology to blur the physical and digital worlds.

📐 Social Architecture track, one of two new tracks launching this year, is focused on reconstructing social and public space through design and architecture.

🤝 Cooperative Studies track, the second new track designs care-based models for collective futures, fostering cultural value through projects at the intersection of social impact, the future of work, and cooperative organizing.

Learn more: https://www.newinc.org/

09/19/2023

For her upcoming exhibition "Nothing New," conceptual and performance artist Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo (aka Puppies Puppies) will transform the glass-walled Lobby Gallery into a mise-en-scène of her daily life. Puppies Puppies will use a fogging glass mechanism to alternately obscure and reveal her activities in the gallery—a portion of which will be a duplicate of the artist’s actual bedroom—foregrounding themes of visibility, representation, and cultural consumption.

Kuriki-Olivo's past work centered a refusal to be seen—she has used proxies to speak or act on her behalf during studio visits, interviews, and performances; donned costumes that function as avatars, dressing as SpongeBob, a Minion, Gollum, Freddy Krueger, and Lady Liberty; and staged performances in absentia. “Nothing New” marks an important shift in the artist’s practice, as Kuriki-Olivo explores new registers of transparency and obfuscation by inviting visitors to experience her life as if through a screen.

"Nothing New" opens October 12, only at the New Museum! Learn more:https://bit.ly/3Zl70e6.

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Public shower (shower is available to be used), 2016. Performance, shower (public shower participant). Image courtesy the artist; Kunsthaus, Glarus; Balice Hertling, Paris; Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich; Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin; and Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo: Stefan Burger

09/18/2023

⚠️ We are closed for installation of "Judy Chicago: Herstory," the first comprehensive New York museum exhibition of work from the iconic feminist artist's sixty-year career! "Herstory" encompasses the full breadth of Chicago's contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. Opening October 12!

Tickets onsale now—get yours today! 🎟️ https://bit.ly/2QJFXGI

Judy Chicago, "Marie Antoinette, from The Great Ladies Series," 1973. Sprayed acrylic on canvas. Collection Elizabeth A. Sackler. © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

09/15/2023

⏳ Final Weekend ⏳ This is your last chance to experience our summer shows, closing September 17!

🎟️ Get your tickets today at the link in our bio!

Photos: Liz Ligon

09/12/2023

🚨 This is the last week to see five incredible monographic exhibitions, closing September 17!

🫀 "Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente" features richly textured sculptures and installations that address the political, social, and cultural issues affecting Latinx and working class communities in the United States.

🔔 "Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance" presents projects developed through collaborative community engagement and extensive archival research that highlight unofficial and suppressed histories.

⚙️ "Mire Lee: Black Sun" is a site-specific installation and an immersive environment comprised of animatronic sculptures that operate both like living organisms and biological machines.

🐍 "Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riot" showcases the largest painting ever exhibited in the New Museum and reimagines the Biblical origin story of Eve to envision and inspire gender expansive futures.

🌳 "Screens Series: Jamie Crewe," in which the artist produces dreamlike vignettes that weave together poetic retellings of Ancient Greek myths, Victorian literature, British horror stories, and q***r histories.

🎟️ Get your tickets at the link in our bio!

09/08/2023

Punk is more than a music form—it's an ethos and a bridge between disciplines and communities. NEW INC presents a FREE mini-festival expanding the story of punk—from the early adoption of peer to peer music distribution, to the intersection of punk and hip-hop in Times Square, to the artists who use punk as a means of extending their studio practice. For one afternoon in Times Square, punk goes off!

Don't miss this concert presented in partnership with Times Square Arts on September 15!

Learn more: https://bit.ly/45ZQHpd

09/07/2023

🎨 Pepón Osorio will be at the Museum next Thursday, September 14 at 6:30 p.m. for a talk on the artist's practice, including the critical social issues that impact the communities he works with and how he integrates individual stories into his artistic practice. Accompanied by curators Bernardo Mosqueira () and Margot Norton (), Osorio will discuss his elaborate, large-scale environments and his career-long investment in the question of how to better care for one another.

🎟️ Get tickets at the link in our bio!

Photo: Liz Ligon

08/15/2023

Wynnie Mynerva's "The Original Riot" figures ethereal creatures that are neither gendered nor bodied. At the far end of the canvas, animals and plants morph into post-human hybrids, defying the laws of nature to become otherworldly entities: https://newmu.org/7mJBEc

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“Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riot,” 2023. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni

08/01/2023

☀️ 🏖️ Cool off with cool art! Explore our unique and invigorating lineup of summer shows.

Photo: Dario Lasagni

07/19/2023

Listen to stories from former students and teachers impacted by Philadelphia school closures in Pepón Osorio's immersive environment, "reForm." Developed in collaboration with the Fairhill Elementary school community, "reForm" is a living document of their experience that pays tribute to the devastating cost of public education cuts and the school-to-prison pipeline: https://newmu.org/AdBb7M

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“Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/Mi corazón latiente,” 2023. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni

07/18/2023

Mire Lee's kinetic sculptures ooze with clay and slime reminiscent of human viscera. These human-machine hybrids embody some of the most urgent anxieties of our time as both our technology and our world continue to evolve. Mire Lee's Fourth Floor installation, "Black Sun," questions whether the range of emotions embodied in these works can be expressed: https://newmu.org/GDJWob

Tickets for "Mire Lee: Black Sun" are available now at the link above.

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“Mire Lee: Black Sun,” 2023. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni

07/11/2023

"Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance" weaves together the interconnected histories of Vietnam, Senegal, Morocco, France, and the United States. "Radiant Remembrance" is especially concerned with soldiers from occupied territories such as Senegal who were forced to fight colonial wars overseas and the families and heritage the resulted from these encounters: https://newmu.org/QWtRwR

🖱️ Don't miss "Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance," on now through September 17.

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“Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance,” 2023. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni

07/02/2023

"I never knew that art could take institutional form. I always thought, and still think, you make art...for the people around you." ✍️ Pepón Osorio

Pepón Osorio's immersive multimedia installations break through Museum conventions. Inspired by everyday environments—from home interiors to barbershops to classrooms—the artist's ornate scenes also confront critical issues facing Latinx and working class communities: https://newmu.org/AdBb7M

"Scene of the Crime (Whose Crime?)" was modeled after an affordable housing unit in the South Bronx neighborhood where Osorio worked as a child services case worker in the 1980s, and reflects on the social impact of Hollywood’s violent representations of Latinx people. When it was first displayed at the Whitney, Osorio described it as a "a piece of the South Bronx...placed in the middle of Madison Avenue."

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Pepón Osorio, Scene of the Crime (Whose Crime?), 1993. Exhibition view: “NYC 1993: Experimental, Jet Set, Trash and No Star,” New Museum, New York, 2013. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Benoit Paille

06/30/2023

MUESTRA INDIVIDUAL DE ARTISTA PERUANA EN EL NEW MUSEUM DE MANHATTAN, NUEVA YORK

El New Museum de Manhattan presenta la obra "The Original Riot" de la artista peruana Wynnie Mynerva.

Esta exhibición marca el debut individual de la artista peruana en un museo en los Estados Unidos. La obra principal consiste en una pintura de gran tamaño que abarca toda la galería del vestíbulo del museo, y se complementa con una instalación escultórica creada a partir de una costilla de la propia artista. La exposición es curada por el brasileño Bernardo Mosqueira y podrá ser visitada hasta el 17 de setiembre próximo.

Los textos curatoriales de la exposición destacan que la artista nació y creció en el distrito limeño de Villa El Salvador, y que la pintura de gran escala presentada es la más grande que se haya exhibido en el New Museum.

La muestra será complementada con eventos paralelos como un taller de dibujo con la artista peruana el próximo 6 de julio (ver enlace virtual: https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1934/out-of-bounds-drawing-workshop-with-wynnie-mynerva), y un tour virtual de la exposición el 19 de julio próximo (ver el enlace: https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1933/live-virtual-tour-of-wynnie-mynerva-the-original-riot).

Para mayor información sobre la muestra, se puede visitar el siguiente enlace web: https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/wynnie-mynerva-the-original-riot

El New Museum es una institución privada de gran prestigio en la ciudad y se destaca por ser el único museo en Manhattan dedicado exclusivamente al arte contemporáneo, presentando las últimas tendencias del arte global.

👀 : para visitar la obra es necesario contar con un ticket de entrada del Museo.

06/25/2023

Wynnie Mynerva () sees subversion and transgression as forms of rebellion that can free us from gender hierarchies and other confining myths. In "Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riot," the artist reimagines the story of Adam and Eve—in which God creates Eve from Adam's rib—as a gender-expansive narrative that posits Eve and Lilith as original co-conspirators against a patriarchal power. Featuring the largest painting ever displayed at the New Museum, this site-specific installation also incorporates a sculptural element made from the artist's own "Adam's rib," which they had surgically removed for this work.

"Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riot" opens June 29: https://newmu.org/83sW5p

06/20/2023

The artist Mire Lee draws on architecture, horror, po*******hy, and cybernetics to create animatronic sculptures that appear to be both living organisms and biological machines. Evoking a diverse range of emotions from melancholy to disgust to love to pity, these works offer a visceral means to describe the dissonant emotions that exist between the realms of the technological and the physical.

On the opening night of her exhibition, "Mire Lee: Black Sun," the artist will be in conversation with curator Garry Carrion-Murayari on Thursday, June 29 at 6 p.m.: https://newmu.org/cmYcZb

06/15/2023

Hell Yes! Our iconic Members party is back. Toast the arrival of summer, enjoy private access to exhibitions, and dance the night away on July 11—only at the New Museum: https://newmu.org/Upefcb

Become a Member today to get your tickets to "Hell Yes!," including a private viewing of our summer exhibitions. Join today via the link in our bio!

05/25/2023

"Mutu radicalizes clichéd associations of nature as an eternally forgiving female-mother, and expresses a deep sense of humankind’s complex, equal and non-negotiable coexistence with one another and all organisms." 📝 Victoria Miro

Made from Kenyan soil, wood, and organic material grown and found around Wangechi Mutu's Nairobi studio, "Sentinel I" explores the ambiguous relationship between humanity and nature. Simultaneously expressing our roles as creators, protectors, and destroyers of nature, "Sentinel I" addresses the complexities and contradictions that arise out of our interconnectedness with the natural world: https://newmu.org/yrqSxD

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Sentinel I, 2018. Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund.

Photo: Dario Lasagni

The New Museum will present a major solo exhibition of the work of Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972, Nairobi), which will bring together over one hundred works from across her twenty-five-year career.

05/22/2023

In "Sisters" (2019), Wangechi Mutu revisits themes common to much of her work: doubling, interconnectivity, and reciprocity. Two bronze casts of femme heads face each other at an angle, placed on a mirror surface that reflects the contours of their faces and hair. Simultaneously intimate and universal, "Sisters" examines the consumption of femininity and how the identity category of woman is experienced both internally and in connection with others.

Read more: https://newmu.org/yrqSxD

05/16/2023

Feel the pulse of the next generation of creative projects and enterprises at a new festival created by NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art, design, and technology: https://newmu.org/5liERX

Open to the public, DEMO2023 will be centered at the New Museum with three days of talks and demonstrations led by industry leaders and NEW INC members, with additional exhibitions, performances, and public art installations staged at partner locations across Manhattan.

Learn more and reserve your free tickets today at the link above.