‘On the threshold of a new age’: inside the New Museum’s $82m expansion and landmark new exhibition in New York

After a two year closure, the museum doubles its gallery space with a 700-plus object show examining how humans and technology shape each other Right now on the Bowery, a busy Manhattan thoroughfare, two supersized lovers embrace several stories up into the blue spring sky. Strapped against the New Museum’s industrial mesh exterior, the pair are frozen in a state of plasticized affection. Their grinning, almost smooching heads are pressed close and glossy torsos entwined. A massive hand, safe...

By Laura Bannister