The New Museum Reopens, Asking, ‘What Is Human?’新博物館(大樓由日本建築事務所 SANAA（妹島和世和西澤立衛）設計，採用堆疊的、偏離軸線的盒子結構。)重新開放，提出「何為人？」的問題。展覽內容包羅萬象，規模宏大、嚴肅深刻、面向成人的展覽，值得人們展開辯論，甚至爭論——這正是我們評論家所喜歡的。

新博物館重新開放，提出「何為人？」的問題。

這是一場規模宏大、嚴肅深刻、面向成人的展覽，值得人們展開辯論，甚至爭論——這正是我們評論家所喜歡的。

展覽內容包羅萬象，有時甚至顯得雜亂無章。許多展廳人滿為患，到處都是佩戴義肢的「超女性」和發出嘎嘎聲的自動裝置。展覽既有精彩的新視頻，也有一些堪稱城中最醜陋的繪畫作品。 「新人類」是一場面向成人的大型嚴肅展覽；它注定會引發爭論，而這正是我所期待的。

左圖：2007 年新博物館大樓，由日本建築事務所 SANAA（妹島和世和西澤立衛）設計，採用堆疊的、偏離軸線的盒子結構。其鋁網外觀如今與右側由 OMA 設計的新擴建部分「交相輝映」。

The New Museum Reopens, Asking, ‘What Is Human?’

It’s a big, serious, adult show worth debating and even fighting over — just the way our critic likes it.





The show is wide-ranging, and sometimes helter-skelter. It’s populated — in many galleries overpopulated — by prosthetic metawomen and rattling automatons. It has brilliant new videos and some of the ugliest painting in town. “New Humans” is a big, serious show for adults; it’s meant to fight over, which is just the way I like it.

ImageLeft, the 2007 New Museum building, designed with stacked, off-axis boxes by the Japanese architecture firm SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa). Its aluminum mesh facade now “kisses” the new addition, right, by OMA.

A striking new triangular staircase brings light into the new wing while romancing downtown Manhattan. The sculpture suspended in the void is by the Czech artist Klára Hosnedlová.