Monday, July 6, 2015
Studio Museum in Harlem Unveils Design for Expansion
The Studio Museum in Harlem, whose ambitions have long been checked by the limitations of its 1914 building, will construct a new $122 million home designed by the British architect David Adjaye on West 125th Street.
Plans for the new building, which will occupy the museum’s current lot near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, are to be announced Monday.
New York City is contributing $35.3 million to the Studio Museum project, $11.4 million of which was just allocated in the budget for fiscal year 2016. Tom Finkelpearl, the city’s cultural affairs commissioner, called the project a “great investment.”
The Ford Foundation donated $3 million. (The rest is to be raised from other sources....)