Conceived as a hybrid between a museum, live performance venue, and social hub, CANYON will present time-based art as a frontline of culture, grappling with everything from artificial intelligence and facial recognition to climate anxiety and cultural memory. Canyon will be housed in a 40,000-square-foot disused space inside the Essex Crossing complex on Delancey Street in Manhattan, near the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge.
Founded by philanthropist Robert Rosenkranz and helmed by Joe Thompson, Canyon is an adaptive re-use of vacant commercial space, purposely re-configured for durational forms of art by architects New Affiliates Architecture—led by co-founders Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb. The institution will feature 18,000 square feet of exhibition space specially outfitted with state-of-the-art video-display capacity, a sixty-foot-tall skylit atrium for performances and gatherings, and a three-hundred-seat performance hall that will accommodate concerts, screenings, lectures, and podcast tapings.
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