ABSTRACT
With the new building, the New Museum has gained a flexible space to challenge artists and expand options for curators. It has also acquired a tool for catching attention, just as at the Denver Art Museum or the Milwaukee Art Museum. Inside, the Sky Room and the views from it give visitors something to rave about on social media and offer a prime location for pictures. Just as at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, the New Museum's program demanded flexibility, but here, the flexibility is in the architectural elements themselves instead of in the way that spaces created by those elements are used. In stacking the galleries, the circulation becomes an integral part of the gallery experience. While museums like the National Museum of XXI Century Arts(MAXXI) respond to the urban fabric by creating a feeling of flow throughout the gallery spaces, the New Museum responds to the urban context with a roughness to the exterior and a vista to overlook the cityscape.
