New York’s $2 Billion Museum Building Boom

“Nearly every art museum in New York is now enlarging its building or constructing a new one in a museum boom, the total cost of which will exceed $2 billion. The past three decades have witnessed steady growth of the city’s museum facilities, but the present increase appears to be unprecedented in its scope and breadth. These projects are funded nearly entirely with private money, most of it from the institutions’ long-serving trustees.”