What Do We Really Think of the New New Museum?
Hrag Vartanian et al | Hyperallergic | 18th March 2026
New York’s New Museum has long been seen as scrappy and risk-taking, the city’s anti-MoMA. With its just-opened extension, is it gentrifying? Some of the opening show gets a bashing, because it is “tethered to Western European Modernist ideas of art”. Curatorial experimentation is largely absent. As one writer observed about an earlier expansion of the institution, “architecture is deterministic. A more corporate [building] envelope means a more corporate approach in general”.