After the Bowery: Tribeca, Red Hook and up the Hudson

The Lower East Side after the New Museum, Tribeca since 2019, Red Hook and Pioneer Works, Bushwick's short decade, Dia:Beacon up the Hudson, Storm King, and the fairs that pulled it all together.

• The Stacked Boxes on the BowerySANAA's New Museum building, opened on the Bowery in December 2007 — the stacked-aluminium-mesh volumes, the decision to build new rather than adapt, and how the institution's arrival on a block between SoHo and the Lower East Side pulled gallery attention southward.
• The Lower East Side After the New MuseumWhat SANAA's Bowery building did to the blocks around it from 2007: small storefront galleries on Orchard, Rivington and Eldridge, and how quickly the rents answered.
• Pioneer Works and the Argument for Red HookPioneer Works opening in a Red Hook ironworks building in 2012 — its founding, its programme of residencies, concerts and exhibitions, and the question of whether a non-commercial institution in an outer-borough industrial site can anchor a district the way a gallery cluster does.
• Bushwick's One DecadeWarehouse galleries, open-studio weekends and the Brooklyn years when the cheapest square footage in the city briefly held the most new work — and what closed it.
• The Nabisco Box Plant at BeaconDia:Beacon's conversion of a 1929 Nabisco cardboard-box factory on the Hudson into 300,000 square feet of permanent-collection gallery space, opened 2003 — the skylights designed to match the light requirements of specific works, the decision to show one artist per room at scale, and what that model cannot do that a commercial gallery can.
• Storm King and the Room Sculpture NeedsFive hundred acres in the Hudson Valley, opened in 1960, where a di Suvero or a Serra gets the distance a Manhattan floor cannot give it.
• The 69th Regiment Armory and the Show That Changed the CountThe 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue — approximately 1,300 works, the Nude Descending a Staircase scandal, the attendance figures — and how the modern Armory Show on the piers inherited and departed from that history.
• Frieze Moves Off the IslandFrieze New York from its 2012 debut on Randall's Island under a Liz Diller–designed tent to its move into the Shed at Hudson Yards — a comparison of the two sites as fair environments, and what the relocation signals about where the city's art geography is being pulled.