The New Museum in New York opens its new extension, designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas of the architectural apply OMA, this week. Ben Luke talks to Massimiliano Gioni, the New Museum’s creative director, and the co-curator of the inaugural exhibition within the new constructing, known as New People: Reminiscences of the Future.
Set up view of New People: Reminiscences of the Future (2026)
Picture: Jason Eager, courtesy New Museum
We then converse to considered one of The Artwork Newspaper’s editors-at-large, Georgina Adam, who has simply revealed a brand new e-book NextGen Collectors and the Artwork Market.
NextGen Collectors And The Artwork Market, by Georgina Adam
Lund Humphries
And this episode’s Work of the Week is an instance of a Wardian Case, a picket field with a glass cowl developed by the doctor Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward within the early 1830s. This instance is a part of the exhibition In Bloom: How Vegetation Modified Our World, on the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Ben speaks to Shailendra Bhandare, co-curator of the exhibition.
Kew Wardian case, c. 1870, wooden & glass.
Courtesy Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The New Museum and New People: Reminiscences of the Future open on 21 March.NextGen Collectors and the Artwork Market, by Georgina Adam, Lund Humphries, £19.99In Bloom: How Vegetation Modified Our World, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 19 March-16 August
