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the new new thing; Director Lisa Phillips has overseen the New Museum's fabulous rebirth on the Bowery, galvanizing the art world in the process.

Vogue

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Byline: Eve Macsweeney

On a fall afternoon Lisa Phillips, director of the New Museum, is touring her new site, a $64 million construction project for which she has been both visionary and nursemaid, financial chivvier and doorknob inspector. Today, for the first time, the exterior of the building, a series of asymmetrically stacked aluminum boxes designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Japanese practice SANAA, has been revealed; its final panels are in place, its cladding is unwrapped. Made of an enlarged version of the metal mesh of Manhattan's public trash cans-a material that is produced by stretching rather than cutting out, and therefore creates ...

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