Studio Museum in Harlem Reopens in a Stunning New Home

Maximilliano Duran | ARTnews | 13th November 2025

After a seven-year closure, the Studio Museum in Harlem has re-opened in a “brilliant” new building. It can display three times as many works as previously. More space is allocated to an artist-in-residency program that boasts illustrious alumni. It is a moment of recognition for an institution that, initially “invisible” to the mainstream, has since had “grand influence [and] rewritten the canon” for artists of African descent. Claims its chairman, Studio Museum has helped “the margins … come to the centre”.