The New Museum announced today that Lisa Phillips, the institution’s Toby Devan Lewis Director, will retire from the Museum in April 2026 after twenty-six years of leadership and following the expanded Museum’s public reopening. Board President James Keith Brown said, “During Lisa’s extraordinary tenure, the New Museum has grown from a small experimental organization into a major international powerhouse with a widely acclaimed program. Building on our roots as an experimental institution devoted to risk-taking, she led the creation of our flagship SANAA building on the Bowery as well as the OMA building currently rising next to it, catapulting our museum into a globally recognized hub of contemporary art and culture where interdisciplinary entrepreneurship, institutional resource sharing, and community engagement are paramount. We are now a closely watched supporter of