The Museum of Modern Art unveiled on Wednesday a sweeping redesign of its Midtown building, featuring a retractable glass wall, vast new gallery space and the opening of its entire first floor, including the beloved sculpture garden, free to the public.
It is unclear whether this grand, ambitious plan will be enough to quell protests over the long-planned and controversial part of the museum’s overhaul: the razing of its next-door neighbor on West 53rd Street, the noteworthy, if idiosyncratic, former home of the American Folk Art Museum.
It is unclear whether this grand, ambitious plan will be enough to quell protests over the long-planned and controversial part of the museum’s overhaul: the razing of its next-door neighbor on West 53rd Street, the noteworthy, if idiosyncratic, former home of the American Folk Art Museum.