Far From Paris, the Pompidou Plans an Outpost in Jersey City.
Out: the Metro and the Seine. In: the PATH and the Hudson. The Pompidou Center plans to open its first North American satellite museum in a renovated industrial building.
In recent years, the Pompidou Center in Paris has tried to extend its reach globally by opening museum outposts in cities hundreds, sometimes thousands, of miles away. In 2015, it opened one in Málaga, Spain; in 2018, in Brussels; one year later, in Shanghai.
So what’s the next destination for the Pompidou, the Parisian art museum and cultural center?
Jersey City, N.J., naturally.
The institution’s president, Serge Lasvignes, and the mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop, will announce on Friday that the city plans to turn a century-old industrial building in Journal Square into the Pompidou’s first North American satellite. If the City Council approves the plan, the museum, which is expected to open in early 2024, will have access to art from the Pompidou’s collection of around 120,000 works and to its array of experts — as well as the benefit of being associated with one of Paris’s most popular cultural attractions.
“Our idea is to be confronted with what is very different,” Mr. Lasvignes said. “For us, it’s a way to learn — to learn new circumstances, a new way of presenting art, a new way of presenting exhibitions.”>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/arts/design/pompidou-center-jersey-city.html?
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