The Bowery's Own Museum Steps Onto the World Stage

The New Museum, whose new building went up earlier this year, opens its large-scale fall exhibitions this week — the first full test of that expanded home. It is a moment New York's downtown art world has been anticipating, and one that carries a larger question with it: whether an institution built on its Bowery roots can also hold its own as an international name. For a museum that has always measured itself by its downtown character, the answer will be watched closely by anyone who follows where contemporary art is headed next.

With reporting from Vanity Fair.