Tuesday, February 25, 2014

The art incubator: kickstarting the business of design


From a distance, the New Museum looks strange, six oddly shaped boxes dropped on top of each other in an uneven stack. Inside, the curators do their best to keep it equally weird, rotating through a cast of global exhibitions with no permanent collection to draw on. Since the museum’s competing with at least half a dozen other New York institutions, that also means staying ahead of the pack with digital art and ambitious open installations. But while the museum tries to keep pace with a frenetic art world, one of its most ambitious ideas has overflowed the boxes and ended up in a non-descript building just to the south.


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