In a Legacy Obsessed Cultural Landscape, a New Experimental Art Space Is Embracing Ephemerality

Earlier this month, a 3,000-square-foot experimental arts space quietly opened in Lower Manhattan, its ethos guided by an intriguing question: what if not just exhibitions, but institutions were temporary? times, on Lafayette Street, arrives at a moment when the middle of the art ecosystem is thinning out, with optimism increasingly concentrated at the top and bottom ends of the market and institutions favoring novelty and legacy over experimentation. In that widening gap between buzz and critical consecration...