Museum of Arts & Design
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| Museum of Arts and Design | |
| Established | 1956 |
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| Location | 40 West 53rd Street New York, NY, USA |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | Holly Hotchner |
| Curator | David Revere McFadden, Lowery Stokes Sims |
| Website | http://www.madmuseum.org/ |
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), based in Manhattan in New York, New York, is a center for the collection, preservation, study, and display of contemporary hand-made objects in a variety of media, including: clay, glass, metal, fiber, and wood.
It accommodates 300,000 visitors per year, however, touring exhibitions, outreach efforts, and off-site programs effectively double that audience.
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[edit] History
The museum was founded in 1956 by philanthropist Aileen Osborn Webb, as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts.
In 1986, it relocated to 40 West 53rd and was renamed the American Craft Museum. In 2002 it changed its name again to the Museum of Arts and Design.
[edit] Move To and Controversial Redesign of 2 Columbus Circle
In 2008, the museum will complete a controversial move to 2 Columbus Circle. The museum's plans to radically alter the 1964 building, originally designed by Edward Durell Stone to display the art collection of Huntington Hartford, touched off a bitter preservation battle.
The new location, with more than 54,000 square feet, will more than triple the size of the Museum’s current space. Designed by Brad Cloepfil, it will include: four floors of exhibition galleries for works by established and emerging artists; a 150-seat auditorium in which the museum plans to feature lectures, films, and performances; and a restaurant. It will also include a Center for the Study of Jewelry, and an Education Center that will offer multi-media access to primary source material, hands-on classrooms for students, and three artists-in-residence studios.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Museum website
- A New Face on Columbus Circle
- Rennovation Adds Light to Lollipop Building
- [http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/01/nyregion/20080501_COLUMBUS.html#/ Interactive Video of Transformation
- Missing the Marble at 2 Columbus Circle
- Images
- Essay: Modernism Endangered
- Article by Tom Wolfe
- Force Behing 2 Columbus Circle: Interview with the Director
- Report by NY1 of a rally
- Men's Vogue on Brad Cloepfil
- Recent Past Preservation Network
- The Architect's Newspaper
- Eyesore or Icon?
- 'Second Lives' Exhibit Fall 2008
- The Rape of 2 Columbus Circle
