With a major expansion by OMA debuting this fall, the museum reopens with a landmark exhibition featuring 150 artists, and tackles timely questions about technological change.

When the New Museum reopens this fall on New York’s Lower East Side, after a major expansion that shuttered it in March 2024, it will almost double its exhibition space to more than 20,000 square feet, thanks to a new, free-standing building designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas of the architecture firm OMA. It is the first public building in New York City by OMA, and will be interwoven with the museum’s Sanaa-designed building from 2007.

From the outside, the addition will look distinct from the flagship at 235 Bowery, at Prince Street. Against the irregularly stacked, opaque cubes of the original building, Shigematsu and Koolhaas’s design is angular. It emphasizes transparency and upward movement, with staircases and elevator shaft visible from the street leading up to terraces on its upper stories. The interior of the two buildings will be seamlessly connected.

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