The project will be the first public building in New York City designed by Rotterdam-based Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu, director of the firm’s New York office.

The Manhattan museum has announced plans to launch an incubator for art, technology, and design, drawing more than 60 startups under its wing.

“Untapped Capital” was the theme of this year’s Ideas City festival, the second iteration of a biennial series of urban-focused events organized by the New Museum in Manhattan.

For an hour or so yesterday, I was a lab rat in an experiment by artist Carsten Höller.

Manhattan’s Lower East Side has never been a great neighborhood.

Now that the New Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is complete, and its structure enclosed, there is little evidence of the system that supports the seven-story building that seems to be made up of nothing heavier than precariously stacked cardboard boxes.

At New York's smart New Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo-based SANAA creates an ambiguous icon for an area in transition.