New Museum Installs ‘Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty’ - WSJ.com
The contractors who built the New Museum’s two-year-old, $50 million facility on Manhattan’s Lower East Side returned this week. Their task: lower the second floor gallery’s ceiling by 2 feet.
The change order came from artist Urs Fischer, whose upcoming exhibition requires the museum to upend everything from its lighting to its architectural plans. Last-minute changes and delays have meant shipping thousands of pounds of metal sculptures by airplane instead of by boat, at the museum’s expense, says the show’s curator Massimiliano Gioni.
oh my god. read the full article.
“cheeky sculptures like a human-sized tongue that protrudes from the wall when a viewer approaches” .
it’s ridiculous. I think I’ll take a peek at the 4th flr tomorrow.
