An NYC Art Dealer Is Opening His Wild Mansion to the Public
Adam Lindemann’s personal exhibition “Urhobo + Abstraction” combines African statuary with contemporary abstract art.
The exhibition, looking towards the building’s front door.
Courtesy Adam Lindemann (New York) and Bernard de Grunne (Brussels)
“Are we going to mention the building?” asks New York art dealer Adam Lindemann, standing in the polished entry hall of his Upper East Side mansion. In fact, it’s kind of impossible not to mention the building.
A jet-black poured concrete structure designed by the architect David Adjaye, it’s hidden behind a staid, 1897 carriage house facade, which the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission dictated remain unaltered. Inside, though, the home is ultracontemporary, with a bridge connecting the street to the main structure, whose asymmetrical windows consciously mimic Marcel Breuer’s original Whitney Museum of American Art building on Madison Avenue a few blocks away. Look up as you enter, and you’ll see a glass catwalk leading to a small, wood-paneled second-floor library that fronts the street.