Why, Exactly, Is the Pompidou Coming to Jersey City?

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( thursday, june 17 GARDEN STATE GALLERY [Why, Exactly, Is the Pompidou Coming to Jersey City?]( With free rent and millions in funding, the French art museum actually has a lot to gain. Will Jersey City be able to say the same? Art: Courtesy of OMA It’s not surprising that the Centre Pompidou — Paris’s principal museum of modern art — would open an American exhibition space, as officials announced in early June. The Guggenheim’s global expansion, despite some hiccups, turned Bilbao, a city that wasn’t a cultural magnet at all, into a destination, and the Pompidou already has three outposts of its own outside of France. Even so, the worlds of art and real estate did a collective double take when the museum announced its choice of location: Jersey City, the second-largest town in the 47th-largest state, a place whose principal draw is the PATH train that allows you to escape from it. (The museum, in fact, will be right by the Journal Square PATH stop.) One imagines the French curatorial staff getting a taste of Taylor pork roll and doing their own double take. [Continue reading »]( Never miss a story from Curbed: [Subscribe now.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Restaurants May Finally Get Relief From Grubhub and Uber’s Automatic Sign-ups Delivery services routinely add restaurants to their apps without asking them. Legislators want to make that illegal.]( By Kevin T. Dugan [The American Dream Mall Is Ridiculous Yet Not Ridiculous Enough They’ve stripped the dazzle paint from Xanadu.]( By Justin Davidson [We Unearthed the 37 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now This week, we found a few standout studios as well as pretty parlor-floor spaces with original woodwork.]( By Jenny Xie [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( It happened this week — let’s talk about it. [Sign up for My Week in New York](: a new newsletter from the editors. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved