Studio Museum sets opening dates for new buildings in November

Harlem’s Studio Museum will open its long-standing new building on Saturday, November 15, and celebrate Community Day.

The studio museum has been closed since 2018 when the previous building was demolished to pave the new building designed by Adjaye Associates. It was originally scheduled to reopen in 2022.

The museum’s new home includes 82,000 square feet on seven floors and 14,000 square feet dedicated to the exhibition space. Its renowned residential artist program will have 2,100 square feet of studio and lounge space, while 1,800 square feet will be dedicated to educational space. The museum will also open a studio store that will sell publications as well as products from black-owned businesses.

“With our historic homecoming approach, I am thinking about the transformative vision of artists, supporters and community members who have helped shape this critical moment in our legacy,” Studio Museum Museum Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden said in a statement. “Our breathtaking new building is a very valuable space and pays homage to the museum’s mission and the vitality of artists of African descent. I’m excited to welcome everyone back to a reimagined studio museum, rooted in Harlem and resonate in the distance.”

Although the Studio Museum has been closed for about seven years in Harlem’s physical space, the museum continues to perform off-site programming and continues its residency program through partnerships with the Museum of Modern Art and MOMA PS1.

As part of the reopening, the studio museum will host four exhibitions, install commissions for two locations and reinstall iconic works from its collection. The most important of these exhibitions will be a survey dedicated to Tom Lloyd, an artist known for his works of art and technology, the subject of the studio museum’s first exhibition in 1968. The Lloyds exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, with one of two people published by the museum reconsideration; the second will be a new volume in its permanent collection, titled Meaning Material Memory: Choice from Harlem Fair Studio Museum.

The studio museum will also exhibit works on paper at former artists who live. The first part of the rotating permanent collection hangs among nearly 9,000 objects it holds. and speeches that explore their history through archival photographs and symbols. Camille Norment and Christopher Myers will create new works for the museum’s terraces and their educational seminars, respectively. David Hammons’ red, black and green flags will be installed again on the museum’s exterior walls, and Glenn Ligon Give us a poem (2007) will be heading to the hall and Houston E. Conwill The mystery of happiness (1984) will be viewed on the second floor.

Along with the new building, the Studio Museum has also changed its operating hours, now from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday to Sunday, extending the hours to Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m. Free admission will be offered on Sunday as part of the Museum Studios Sunday program, while admission costs $16 for adults and $9 for seniors, students and disabled people (free for nursing partners). Children aged 16 and under can enter the museum for free.

Since its founding 60 years ago, the studio museum has become an influential organization known for its advocacy to showcase the immense contributions of African American, Black, African, African, African Latino and African diaspora artists, and did not appear in mainstream museums at the time. Its reputation has reached new heights under the position of director of Golden, who has led the museum since 2005 Artnews Formerly known as the “Studio Museum in the Harlem Effect”.

In a statement, Raymond J., chairman of the Board of Directors of the Studio Museum, has joined our journey so generously.”