Two museum veterans are opening a new space in New York dedicated to video, sound and performance art.
Joseph Thompson, who ran the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) for decades, has joined financier and Whitney Museum board member Robert Rosenkranz to launch Canyon.
The building, on Broome Street on the Lower East Side, will run as a non-profit with around half the 42,000-square-foot space dedicated to audiovisual galleries.
Rosenkranz told the New York Times he hoped it would be able to take advantage of lower overheads associated with video and performance art, adding: "I do see it as potentially having an appeal to a broader audience than the audience that typically goes to museums. I see it as a date-night place."