

Their generous donation supports the building’s construction and includes a $10 million challenge grant to a newly formed Commissioning Fund, an initiative to support the creation of new work at The Shed. Tisch, Vice Chairman of its Board of Directors, and his wife, Lizzie Tisch. The Shed also announced a gift of $27.5 million from Jonathan M. In honour of Mike Bloomberg’s extraordinary leadership in nurturing the project, The Shed’s Board of Directors is proud to name our remarkable home The Bloomberg Building.”

The Shed is key to that vision, opening this April with an inaugural season that celebrates and showcases local and international creativity across all disciplines. Doctoroff said, “Nearly 15 years ago, Mayor Mike Bloomberg had the vision to embark on a complete transformation of Manhattan’s west side, and he had the foresight to know the Hudson Yards area needed a cultural anchor to ensure a vibrant and accessible future. Chairman of The Shed’s Board of Directors Daniel L. Bloomberg, The Shed’s building, located on West 30th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, has been named The Bloomberg Building.

In recognition of the transformative vision and leadership of Michael R. “Beginning on April 5, 2019, The Shed’s community of neighbours, New Yorkers, and visitors from around the world will come together to experience the widest range of art forms in spaces that can accommodate artists’ most inventive and ambitious ideas.” “We have built a home where established, and emerging artists working in all disciplines can create new work in ways that we cannot even imagine,” said Poots. Poots also announced the honorary naming of The Shed’s building and two of its significant spaces in recognition of visionary supporters of the project, four additional artistic commissions for the first half of the opening season, and information about operating hours and tickets. New York City’s new arts centre, designed for 21st-century artists and audiences, will present world premiere works in the performing arts, visual arts, and popular culture in its innovative, movable building when it opens its doors to the public on Manhattan’s west side. The new nonprofit cultural organisation is dedicated to commissioning, developing, and presenting original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences, will launch its opening season on April 5, 2019. Committed to nurturing artistic invention and bringing creative experiences to the broadest possible audiences, The Shed is a 21st-century space of and for New York City. The Shed’s home, The Bloomberg Building, is a remarkable movable structure designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lead Architect, and Rockwell Group, Collaborating Architect, that physically transforms to support artists’ most ambitious ideas. From hip hop to classical music, painting and sculpture to literature, film to theatre and dance, The Shed brings together leading and emerging artists and thinkers from all disciplines under one roof. The Shed intends to commission original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences. To date, The Shed has raised $488 million toward its capital campaign goal of $550 million On Apthe arts centre which is located on Manhattan’s west side where the High Line meets Hudson Yards, will become a cultural hub for multidisciplinary art. The Shed has announced the opening date and building names for New Yorks newest not for profit artspace.
