New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford
3/20/202659 min
The New Museum in New York opens its new extension, designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas of the architectural practice OMA, this week. Ben Luke talks to Massimiliano Gioni, the New Museum’s artistic director, and the co-curator of the inaugural exhibition in the new building, called New Humans: Memories of the Future. We then speak to one of The Art Newspaper’s editors-at-large, Georgina Adam, who has just published a new book NextGen Collectors and the Art Market. And this episode’s Work of the Week is an example of a Wardian Case, a wooden box with a glass cover developed by the physician Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward in the early 1830s. This example is part of the exhibition In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World, at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Ben speaks to Shailendra Bhandare, co-curator of the exhibition.
The New Museum and New Humans: Memories of the Future open on 21 March.
NextGen Collectors and the Art Market, by Georgina Adam, Lund Humphries, £19.99
In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 19 March-16 August
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[intro music] Hello, it's The Week in Art, I'm Ben Lou. This week, the new extension of New York's New Museum, next gen art collectors, and a Wardian case in Oxford.
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