BED BATH & BOWERY.(new headquarters of the New Museum of Contemporary Art)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 24-OCT-05

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Last Tuesday morning, the empty lot at 235 Bowery (the former site of Bowery Parking, LLC) looked, despite a vestigial chain-link fence, fit for a garden party. To protect guests from the rain, a tent had been erected; beneath it were rows of white, scallop-backed chairs. The occasion was a groundbreaking ceremony for the new headquarters of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. "I'm honored today to be joined by many of our most generous supporters," Saul Dennison, the president of the board of trustees, said in his opening remarks. "I'd like to take a moment to thank Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg, and Susan and Leonard Feinstein, who sit behind me." The...

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