About
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Karen Wong is the Deputy Director of the New Museum in NYC where she cofounded the initiatives IDEAS CITY which explores the future of cities with the belief that art and culture are essential to our metropolises, and NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator for art, technology and design. She was the managing director of Adjaye Associates from 2000-2006 and supports emerging architects in her role as a + Pool board member. In the early 90’s she founded Hobbamock, a Boston-based design firm committed to nonprofits and social causes. She sits on the boards of Rhizome, a platform for emergent artistic practices that engage technology, and Apex, a mentoring and education program for underserved Asian youth. She is on the advisory board of National Sawdust, a nonprofit venue for new music. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. For speaking engagements and inquiries please contact info@bykarenwong.com.
The website was designed by ROOM.
The photograph was taken by Phil Chang.
2016
- Up Close, Hieronymus Bosch Is a Psychedelic Trip
- How Beyoncé’s Seven-Story Monolith Sets New Bar of Design Extravagance
- What are 3 of your favorite small businesses in New York?
- New Museum’s Karen Wong Pushes Boundaries
- 9 Reasons Venice Is Unmissable During the Architecture Biennale
- Why the Design World is Betting Big on Architect Alejandro Aravena
- The Real Reason Architect David Adjaye Is the Best Bet to Design President Obama’s Library
2015
- SO-IL
- How to Lose Yourself in ‘The Lightning Field’
- The New Jock
- Meet Cuban Artist Misleidys Francisca Castillo Pedroso
- Jacob Pabst on Disrupting Art Auctions
- Check Out Flexing The New Urban Avant-Garde Dance Craze Mixing Art, Sport, Fashion
2014
- Junya Ishigami
- Leong Leong at the Venice Architecture Biennale
- Ok Real
- Speed Dating Montreal: A Feast of Art and Architecture
- Slow Spectacle: Celebrating the Grace and Intelligence of Annabelle Selldorf’s Designs
- From Pools to School Lunches: How Public Interest Design is Changing the Way We Do Things
2013
- Architecture At Art Basel Miami Beach
- Reflecting and Restarting: Charles Adler, Co-Founder of Kickstarter Talks to Karen Wong
- The Pop Up Activist of the Lower East Side
- Miami Heat: Bjarke Ingels & Shohei Shigematsu Discuss Their Convention Center Showdown
- Venturing Beyond Art, to Give Ideas Their Space
- Getting To Know Jacques Herzog
- 13 Reasons Why Japan Is The Architect’s Ultimate Mecca
- Design With An Agenda: Julien De Smedt Talks To Karen Wong About His New Product Line
- + Pool, Kickstarter, And Why NYC Needs To Take A Chance On Young Architects
- Life After Bloomberg: Assessing NYC’s Urban Future
- How + Pool Is Helping Revolutionize Architecture
- Rudolf Stingel Covers Venice’s Palazzo Grassi In Carpet
- Kickstarter Alert: A:LOG
- Ai Weiwei’s S.A.C.R.E.D. Is Contrived, Didactic, And Vitally Important
- Ideas City
- Karen Wong, New Museum’s Deputy Director, Untapped Capital And The ‘Big 5′
- Columbia University’s All-Digital GSAPP Abstract Causes Architecture Students To Revolt
- Karen Wong: Tiger Woman
- Over The Rainbow And Out Of This World: Two NYC Performances Take The “Immersive Environment” Trend To Another Level
- Rocks And Ducks: A Mind-Blowing Stroll Through Kensington Park’s Serpentine Gallery
- Is London’s LN-CC The Coolest Concept Store In The World?
- SHoP’s Barclays Center: More E.T. Than Blade Runner, And Totally Brooklyn
- A People’s Palace: Yale’s Glorious (And Free) Revamped Art Gallery
- Why Herzog & de Meuron’s New Parrish Building Is The Perfect Art Museum
- Home Sweet Home: NYC Drawing Center Expansion Is Better Than A New Building
- Felix Burrichter’s PIN-UP Is The Playboy Of Architecture Magazines
- How Do You Make Semiconductor Chips Sexy? Ask Ciel Hunter And Julia Kaganskiy!
- How Can You Design A Museum If You Don’t Look At Art?
2012
- Olafur Eliasson Leaves Us Starstruck
- Mapping The Future Of Design With Neri Oxman
- Deconstructing Aaron Koblin: A+ Juror, Data Artist, Google Mastermind
- Making Spectacular Architecture A Reality: Arup’s Rory McGowan
- How Iwan Baan Got That Phenomenal Aerial Shot Of Sandy-Stricken NYC
- IDEAS CITY: Istanbul—Amanda Burden’s Keynote
- Edward Kienholz: Five Car Stud Still Gripping
- “Silver” for the US Pavilion in Venice
- Haas & Hahn: Philly Painting
- On Building Virtual Museums
- New Cities Summit 2012 Paris