5/19/2010- NEW MUSEUM FREE ART TOURS

Photo: Dean Kaufman Celebrate SANAA's Pritzker Prize with Free Admission Wednesday, May 19 2010 12 - 6 PM Join us for free general admission and tours in honor of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Tokyo-based firm SANAA, architects of the New Museum on the Bowery and the 2010 Laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The Pritzker Prize is considered architecture's highest honor. Sejima is the second woman to receive this honor and Nishizawa, at forty-three years old, is the youngest winner in Pritzker history. The Museum will also open the seventh-floor Sky Room. Tour Schedule 12:30 PM Jonas Elding, Project Architect at SANAA for the New Museum and co-founder of the architecture firm Elding Oscarson. 1:30 PM Brett Schneider, Project Engineer at Guy Nordenson and Associates, Structural Engineer for both SANAA's Toledo Museum of Art and the New Museum. 2:30 PM Toshihiro Oki, Project Architect at SANAA for both the New Museum and the Derek Lam flagship store. 3:30 PM Maddy Burke-Vigeland, Principal at Gensler, Executive Architect for the New Museum. 4:30 PM Justin Davidson, architecture and classical music critic of New York magazine and winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in criticism for his work as the classical music and architecture critic at Newsday. 5:30 PM Florian Idenburg, Chief Project Architect at SANAA for the New Museum; co-founder of SO IL; and winner of the 2010 MoMA Young Architect Program. Tours can accommodate up to 30 visitors. If you are unable to attend this event, book a group tour focused on the Museum's architecture at http://www.newmuseum.org/learn/tours. Special thanks to: