The New Museum of Contemporary Art
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| Established | 1977 |
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| Location | 235 Bowery Manhattan, New York City, New York 10002 United States |
| Coordinates | 40°43′20″N 73°59′36″W / 40.722239°N 73.993219°W |
| Type | Contemporary art |
| Director | Lisa Phillips |
| Curator | Gary Carrion-Murayari Lauren Cornell Richard Flood Massimiliano Gioni Jenny Moore Margot Norton |
| Website | www |
The 'New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It is among the few contemporary art museums worldwide exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world.
The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Centre of the then-named New School for Social Research at 65 Fifth Avenue. The New Museum remained there until 1983, when it rented and moved to the first two and a half floors of the Astor Building at 583 Broadway in the SoHo neighborhood.
In 1999, Marcia Tucker was succeeded as director by Lisa Phillips, previously the curator of contemporary art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2001, the museum rented 7,000 square feet of space on the first floor of the Chelsea Art Museum on West 22nd Street for a year.
Over the past five years, the New Museum has 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. In 2003, the New Museum formed an affiliation with Rhizome, a leading online platform for global new media art.
In 2005, the museum was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The New Museum is established by an independent curator Marcia Tucker in 1977. It is dedicated to introduce new art and new ideas, by artists who have not yet received large exposure or recognition. Ever since it is founded, the museum has taken on the mission to challenge the stiff institutionalization of art museum. It continues to bring fresh air into the art world, connects it with common public and releases it from its elitist association.
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