A Centre Pompidou satellite museum that was expected to open in Jersey City is officially not happening anymore, the city’s Mayor said on Wednesday.
The museum, officially known as the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, would have been the only North American satellite operated by Paris’s biggest museum of modern and contemporary art, which is currently closed for renovations.
The Pompidou also runs satellites in Shanghai and Málaga, Spain. Others are expected to open in Hanwha, South Korea, and Paraná, Brazil, yet both pale in comparison to the most ambitious Pompidou satellite in the offing: Kanal, a new museum in Brussels. Some have raised concerns, however, about whether Kanal will ultimately open as Belgium continues to face a prolonged government shutdown.
