The New Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum at 235 Bowery, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker.
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Marcia Tucker founded the New Museum in 1977 as the first contemporary-art institution to open in New York since World War II; its Bowery building by SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa opened in 2007 as the city's only purpose-built contemporary art museum.
The SANAA building stacks offset rectangular boxes, so galleries are small and vertically separated by elevator rather than one continuous floor.