The International Center of Photography at 250 Bowery. “We wanted to find a world-class institution, but also an organization that would be accessible to the community, from practicing artists and schoolchildren and their families,” Paul Pariser, the co-chief executive of Taconic Investment Partners, one of three building partners on the complex, said in a statement. The museum had unveiled designs for a 10,000-square-foot facility that they hoped would entice viewers to make the journey to Pennsylvania, but pulled out of the development in 2015. Courtesy of Moso Studio.Įssex Crossing had been in search of a cultural anchor after Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum abandoned plans to open a New York outpost on the site. However, attendance has increased with each show, and the demographics are younger and more diverse than at the previous location, according to Lubell.Ī rendering of Essex Crossing, future home of the International Center of Photography. ![]() “We had been looking at many different options,” ICP executive director Mark Lubell told artnet News. “There wasn’t the intention that we were going to be moving out as soon as this.” Relocating, after all, comes at a high price: Traffic was down from 160,000 to 100,000 in the first year after the move, which was in line with projections as audience adjusted to the change. It considered securing an additional space at 250 Bowery or other nearby locations for the school, or relocating again, to Essex Crossing-a move first hinted at in January 2016, months before ICP even announced the Bowery’s opening date, when Essex Crossing developers Delancey Street Associates mentioned the museum as a tenant at a public meeting. Though the news may seem surprising so soon after the institution’s most recent relocation, the ICP was in something of a bind. It had been forced to move in January 2015 after its rent-free lease expired in Midtown, in a building owned by the Durst Organization. This time, the museum is heading to Essex Crossing, a new $1.5 billion mixed-use complex on the Lower East Side designed by SHoP Architects. The move will reunite the museum with its school, which remained in Midtown following the ICP’s 2016 move. ![]() ![]() Just over a year after inaugurating a new flagship at 250 Bowery, New York’s International Center of Photography (ICP) has announced plans to move yet again.
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