New Museum is a contemporary art museum devoted exclusively to the work of living artists, founded by Marcia Tucker as its founding director. New Museum's Twitter Score is 20 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #48,922 among 483,914 tracked accounts.
New Museum was founded in 1977 and has built a distinct institutional identity around new art and new ideas. It is affiliated with Rhizome, a born-digital art organization that joined the museum as an affiliate in 2003 and focuses on commissioning, exhibiting, preserving, and supporting critical discussion around digital art and culture. New Museum also founded NEW INC in 2014, described as the first museum-led cultural incubator supporting innovation and entrepreneurship across art, design, and technology.
New Museum's connection to the crypto and NFT space runs deeper than most cultural institutions. Rhizome's Seven on Seven platform gave rise to Quantum, created by Kevin McCoy in 2014 and widely recognized as the first NFT, with the resulting startup Monegraph later joining NEW INC. Rhizome has also organized a series of blockchain and crypto-focused events, including Futures Along the Blockchain, Blockchain Horizons, a crypto-focused Seven on Seven edition, an NFT Aesthetics panel, and the Welcome to the Metaverse series. In 2021, artist Rafaël Rozendaal donated more than 164 Ether, valued at the time at $430,000, to Rhizome through sales of NFTs on the Art Blocks platform, and that same year Katherine Frazer's ikebananana2 became the first artwork minted as an NFT and subsequently accessioned into Rhizome's ArtBase.
New Museum has 364,372 followers as of August 2026 on the platform and has published 15,378 posts. The account has been mentioned by 119 accounts, with 364 total mentions.
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