"The New Museum in Manhattan reopened for previews yesterday after a four-year expansion that doubled its exhibition space to the tune of $82 million. Maybe it's because the project has been so long in the making, or because we've always been sensitive about this contemporary sore thumb in the Lower East Side, but we have some serious feels about the museum's new building."
"My mind, as an immigrant, keeps flying back across oceans, circling the same sky over the Alborz Mountains where my body once belonged. I do not know whether I am absent from the mountains, or whether the mountains are absent from my life here."
"Since the war began, I feel as if I am living inside a shadow. It has no physical form, yet it follows me everywhere."
The New Museum in Manhattan has reopened following a significant four-year expansion project costing $82 million, which doubled the institution's exhibition space. The reopening features the inaugural exhibition titled New Humans: Memories of the Future. Hyperallergic's editorial team provided candid impressions of the expanded building and exhibition, discussing both successes and shortcomings. Additionally, diasporic Iranian artist Leila Seyedzadeh reflects on experiencing war from abroad, describing the emotional displacement of witnessing her homeland under bombardment while living in diaspora. The newsletter also covers Asia Week highlights and includes reporting on an incident at Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle involving damaged glass sculptures.
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