Reining In Museum Architecture’s Mission Creep

When the new home of New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art is completed sometime in 2007, Nicolai Ouroussoff expects it to have a profound influence on an art scene that has sometimes forgotten that art and architecture are supposed to work together. “It is now razor-clear that the building will do more to freshen the bond between Manhattan’s art and architecture communities than any building since Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Museum of American Art opened on Madison Avenue four decades ago.”