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Fine Art Meets Street Art: The New Museum’s Freeman Alley Gambit

Left to right, the original New Museum building, the nearly finished addition and the three-story and five-story buildings that make up the Bowery Mission. Photo: J. Scott Orr for Observer Down on the Bowery, the New Museum’s minimalist stacked-box look is the oddball in an architectural lineup that includes surviving 19th-century buildings like William S. Burroughs’ bunker and the venerable Bowery Mission. Today, workers are putting the finishing touches on the museum’s glimmering $82 million 60,000-square-foot expansion, which pushes the modernist language further with its angular, faceted form. Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter Sign Up Thank you for signing up! By clicking submit, you...


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