New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford – podcast – The Art Newspaper

The New Museum in New York opens its new extension, designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas of the architectural observe OMA, this week. Ben Luke talks to Massimiliano Gioni, the New Museum’s creative director, and the co-curator of the inaugural exhibition within the new constructing, referred to as New People: Reminiscences of the Future.

We then communicate to considered one of The Artwork Newspaper’s editors-at-large, Georgina Adam, who has simply printed a brand new guide NextGen Collectors and the Artwork Market.

And this episode’s Work of the Week is an instance of a Wardian Case, a picket field with a glass cowl developed by the doctor Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward within the early 1830s. This instance is a part of the exhibition In Bloom: How Crops Modified Our World, on the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Ben speaks to Shailendra Bhandare, co-curator of the exhibition.

The New Museum and New People: Reminiscences of the Future open on 21 March.NextGen Collectors and the Artwork Market, by Georgina Adam, Lund Humphries, £19.99In Bloom: How Crops Modified Our World, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 19 March-16 August