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Slavin: The Shed is NYC's first major cultural center since Lincoln Center

Kevin Slavin · There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator · Dec 6, 2017 · at 41:00

Kevin Slavin, Chief Science and Technology Officer at The Shed, explains the historical significance and scale of the new arts center under construction in New York.

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“The Shed is the first cultural center to be, at scale, to be built in New York City since Lincoln Center.”

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The claim, plainly

The Shed is the first large-scale cultural center to be built in New York City since Lincoln Center.

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Assessment

Historical and architectural records from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Institutions Group, and independent architectural archives confirm that between the completion of Lincoln Center in 1969 and the opening of The Shed in April 2019, no independent, ground-up, large-scale multi-disciplinary cultural center was constructed in New York City. Cultural facilities opened during the intervening five decades were either adaptive reuse projects of existing historic buildings (e.g., Snug Harbor Cultural Center, MoMA PS1, Park Avenue Armory, BRIC House), museum expansions, or facilities built within college and university campuses (e.g., Lehman Center, BMCC Tribeca PAC). Ground-up independent centers like the Perelman Performing Arts Center and the Irish Arts Center opened subsequent to The Shed in 2021 and 2023.

Lincoln Center was completed between 1959 and 1969 as New York City's last major ground-up cultural campus of the 20th century.
The Shed opened in April 2019 as a ground-up, independent, 200,000-square-foot multidisciplinary cultural center.
All intervening major cultural venues established between 1969 and 2019 were adaptive reuse projects or university-affiliated facilities rather than independent ground-up large-scale cultural centers.

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[1] lincolncenter.org [2] google.com [3] wikipedia.org [4] bloomberg.org [5] ice.org.uk [6] hudsonyardsnewyork.com [7] nyc.gov [8] cignyc.org

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