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opening times:

Wednesday 11-6 pm Thursday 11-9 pm

Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11-6 PM

Monday and Tuesday closed


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address: New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York

tel: +1 212.219.1222


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We’re not in London here, but in New York, with the sole and selfish excuse of wanting to share my admiration for Sanaa. I’ve just had the chance to travel to New York, with some 18 well-behaved students in tow, and left them on a Sunday afternoon to go and pay tribute to Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. I have already presented their Serpentine pavilion here in 2009, which I thought was a very precise affair, yet maintaining a poetic feel throughout.

The New Museum is very different. I was expecting this white-glowing building I’d seen in many magazines. Que neni. The building is in fact clad with expanded aluminium sheets and is hardly lit at night. The exhibition was somehow disappointing, whereas the bookshop had an interesting array of art and design books (see book selection of the month). I have had to check my pictures with the Kanazawa museum, to confirm that indeed both bookshop designs were the same. A little disappointment brushed away by the books on display. I think I spent more time there than in the show about newspapers. Forgive me. I am not really a newspaper reader and have never been. Magazines perhaps, books as well, but there’s something about the format of the newspaper that doesn’t appeal.

Anyhow, clean lines, highly flexible white cubes stacked on top of each other with some dramatic albeit narrow staircases linking the spaces. A huge goods-and people- green lift ideal for groups, an empty landing leading to the terrace, or balcony with a lovely view (it’s not the empire State though and its 102 floors.... but enjoyable all the same) and some bisazza toilets.

There you have it. Simple. Somewhat too simple perhaps?