From Judy about New Museum opening and rave reviews!

ART
The New Museum, Now Even Newer
By MELENA RYZIK

Friday, November 30, 2007


Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times
Isa Genzken’s “Elefant” makes use of vertical blinds, artificial flowers, plastic tubing and toy figures in a contemporary art show that avoids popular formats like painting, installation works, big-screen videos and Dolby-sound films.

Hey, have you heard? There’s a little something happening on the Bowery. After nearly 30 years as scrappy also-ran, the New Museum is re-opening tomorrow in a brand new building on the Lower East Side. Nicolai Ouroussoff is a fan. “The kind of building that renews your faith in New York as a place where culture is lived, not just bought and sold,” he writes, it “succeeds on a spectacular range of levels: as a hypnotic urban object, a subtle critique of the art world and a refreshingly unpretentious place to view art.” And Roberta Smith says the inaugural exhibition, “Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century,” is “a gauntlet thrown down to other New York museums. It says: get your nerve on.” What are you waiting for? Go check it out.

“New Look for the New Museum,” by Nicolai Ouroussoff NOvember 30 Front page Fine arts NYTimes!

“In Galleries, a Nervy Opening Volley,” by Roberta Smith November 30 Front page NY Times Fine Arts Section!