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The building was designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA with Gensler, New York, serving as Executive Architect, is a seven-story, structure located at 235 Bowery between Stanton and Rivington Streets, at the origin of Prince Street in New York City.
Image: Elizabeth Peyton, Ben Drawing, 2001
Oil on board
10 1/8 x 8 1/4 in
(25.7 x 21 cm)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; A.W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment, 2001
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The New Museum of Contemporary Art was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker. It is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world. The New Museum has, during the past 5 years, exhibited artists from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Germany, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom among many other countries.
The Museum specializes in presenting the work of under-recognized artists, and has mounted ambitious surveys of important figures such as Ana Mendieta, William Kentridge, David Wojnarowicz, Paul McCarthy and Andrea Zittel before they received widespread public recognition. In 2003, the New Museum formed an affiliation with Rhizome, a leading online platform for global new media art.
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