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Big Manhattan Project Heralds ‘Museum Mile’ on West Side

A proposed art space in a major development project on Manhattan’s West Side could bookend a “museum mile” stretching along the popular High Line park, writes The Wall Street Journal.
 
New York City officials said the planned center, to be called the Culture Shed, would showcase art, fashion, and design as part of the Hudson Yards development at the north end of the High Line. The city does not yet have a target date for opening the facility.
 
The Whitney Museum of American Art is building its new home at the southern end of the elevated park, which is itself increasingly home to open-air installations, and the Dia Art Foundation this year bought a building in Chelsea along the High Line’s route.
 
“Hopefully, it’s totally synergistic” with the park, Kate Levin, the city’s commissioner of cultural affairs, said of the Culture Shed. “It gives people a destination to walk to.”

The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 4, 2011