The New Museum Press Office has announced three new scholarship initiatives designed to promote the study of contemporary art. The new Mellon Grant for Scholarship in Contemporary Art utilizes a $500,000 donation from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the museum’s Research Fellow, a two-year rotating position. In addition, the New Museum will relaunch its publishing partnership with MIT Press with the hope of creating publications that deal with “the making and meaning of art in the twenty-first century” . Finally, the museum also unveiled the MX Curatorial Travel Fund, which consists of over $300,000 meant to encourage research abroad. (more…)

Inglett Gallery via Katya Kazakina/Bloomberg

As galleries in Chelsea, the Lower East Side and Brooklyn regain power and cleanup begins, reports about the extent of the damage are slowly emerging. Basements flooded and water surged into first floor spaces, often several feet high, damaging everything. Several galleries had just mounted new shows, and some, like Andrea Rosen, were about to inaugurate expanded or newly acquired spaces.

Major museums closed, and some quickly reopened, giving people a place to gather and power up – like MoMA/PS 1 – or just a respite from the storm – like the Met. The New Museum was in the part of Manhattan without power and just reopened in the past day.

In Red Hook, artist Dustin Yellin lost everything – artwork, including early pieces, as well as recent renovations completed on the $3.7 million building that houses the The Intercourse, a non profit hub for artists through exhibitions, studio residencies, magazine and lecture and workshop series that opened earlier this year.

Red Hook Flooding via The Art Newspaper

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Lauren Cornell has announced that she will be accepting a full-time position at The New Museum with the title “Curator, 2015 Triennial, Digital Projects, and Museum as Hub”. She was previously executive director at Rhizome and adjunct curator at the New Museum. She is co-curating the 2015 triennial with artist Ryan Trecartin. (more…)