Chelsea Art Museum

The Chelsea Art Museum was created to foster an understanding of postwar artistic originality and to further the language of abstraction in contemporary culture. The Museum also seeks to provide a venue for national and international artists who may be less familiar to New York audiences, and to offer exhibitions, public forums and interactive, multi-media cultural activities to the public and its diverse membership. Chelsea Art Museum is committed to scholarship and outreach; to the development of important thematic exhibitions and programs which link art to such crucial issues as the environment and the expression of human rights. The Museum aims to create transcultural dialogues and provide an arena in which individuals can gather as a community to explore and enjoy contemporary art. The Museum is also the temporary home of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, which is building its new flagship home on the Bowery.