That is when the institution will unveil the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, an $11.3 million exhibition, research and storage space in its building on Central Park West at 77th Street.
The new museum additions will add 177,000 square feet of exhibition, research, storage, office, retail and restaurant space (the Meier building has 135,000 square feet) that will spread out over three buildings clustered around a piazza with a fountain.
That is when the institution will unveil the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, an $11.3 million exhibition, research and storage space that will inhabit the entire fourth floor of its 1904 building on Central Park West at 77th Street.
The Holocenter has four main objectives: production, exhibition, research and education.
An exhibition researching this indefinable subject results in a diversity of perspectives and interpretations from religious medieval illustrated manuscripts, to the sacrilegious prints by Andy Warhol (pictured right).
The budget pays for the museum's operation and for exhibitions, research and catalogs.
Other Information on the Web: The New-York Historical Society (//www.orgistory.org) provides information on its museum collections and exhibitions, research library, archive and print room and programs.
Since the cultural agreement was signed in 2010, there has been an increasing number of exchange projects, including traveling exhibitions, research, training, digitizing of archives and collections and fund-raising.
The agreement, some details of which were not made public, includes long-term loans to the Getty's antiquities villa in Pacific Palisades, Calif., as well as collaboration on joint exhibitions, research, conservation and restoration projects.
The council has rejected previous criticism of the building, saying the site had long been reserved for a major cultural project and that the Nobelhuset, which will also house exhibitions, research facilities and an education centre, would be an important asset for the city.
But the form is gaining prominence and acceptance in museums and galleries around the world, with the success of SoundFjord, a London gallery dedicated exclusively to sonic exhibitions and research; the exhibition "RPM: Sound Art China" traveling to Shanghai from Hamilton, New York, in October; and a slew of recent exhibitions in locations as diverse as Hong Kong, Paris and Karlsruhe, Germany.
