NEW MUSEUM PREPARES TO BREAK GROUND ON NEW HOME

In the fall the New Museum of Contemporary Art will break ground on its new home, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Tokyo firm Sanaa, on the site of a parking lot at the Bowery and Prince Street in SoHo, Carol Vogel writes in the New York Times. Two trustees who joined the museum’s board in the last two years are Mitzi Eisenberg, a New Jersey collector, and Susan Feinstein, a collector from Brookville, N.Y. With their husbands, Warren Eisenberg and Leonard Feinstein, the co-founders and co-chairmen of the retail chain Bed, Bath & Beyond, the couples have pledged the lead gift for the new building, which is estimated at $10 million. The campaign’s goal is $50 million, which museum officials say they intend to raise by the time the $35 million building is completed.