And six! After the emblematic Paris site, the Center Pompidou modern and contemporary art museum continues to spread across the world with a new establishment underway. After Metz, Malaga, Brussels and Shanghai, it is the turn of Jersey City, in the New York suburbs to be chosen to host a new exhibition center in 2024. It will be located opposite Manhattan and the firm of architecture that has been selected is that ofOMA (via Jason Long), to whom we owe in particular the buildings of Milstein Hall Cornell University, the Torre Bicentenario in Mexico or the Beijing Preservation. After the MoMA, the Whitney, the Metropolitan Museum and the Guggenheim Museum, it will now be necessary to count on the Center Pompidou in Jersey City to admire new collections of modern and contemporary art.
« The American continent was for us an objective of obvious interest. In the field of contemporary art, America is crucial “Serge Lasvignes, president of the Center Pompidou, explained to AFP in early June. The building chosen to house this new museum dates from 1912 and measures approximately 5,400 square meters and will be completely rehabilitated into exhibition halls and live shows. It will be ” one of the most important cultural attractions in North America ”, According to Phil Murphy, governor of New Jersey and whose goal will also be to improve the image of the city and to attract tourists and New Yorkers. There is nothing like culture to attract as many people as possible. However, we will have to wait another three long years.
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