The one to beat in New Yorkers' hearts and minds: MoMA, designed by Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi. Photograph: AP
There's a new museum in New York. It's called the New Museum. As you may be aware, the New Museum isn't all that new - it's celebrating its 30th year. But we're talking about the new New Museum, which has been relocated from its familiar SoHo locale to a new space, on the edge of the Lower East Side, at 235 Bowery.
The New is on schedule for its December 1 reopening and, as the only New York gallery dealing solely in contemporary art, it has a stunning new building to match - like a stack of white cubes on top of each other. Which is, after all, what it is.
Designed by Tokyo-based architects Sejima + Nishizawa / SANAA, it should deliver on its promise to provide Downtown Manhattan with a distinctive new minimalist landmark - and a rival to MoMA's position on the pedestal as New York's most talked about gallery.
Meanwhile, as the countdown nears single figures, you can watch it taking shape here.
