Editing Drawing Center (section)

== History ==
The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of drawings at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] Martha Beck<ref name=Vitello2014>{{cite news |last=Vitello |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Vitello |date=January 22, 2014 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/arts/design/martha-beck-founder-of-the-drawing-center-dies-at-75.html |title=Martha Beck, Founder of the Drawing Center, Dies at 75 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=September 11, 2022}}</ref> in 1977, with the mandate of seeking to "express the quality and diversity of drawing -- unique works on paper -- as a major art form".<ref>{{cite book|last=Lambert|first=Susan|title=Reading drawings: an introduction to looking at drawings|year=1984|publisher=[[Pantheon Books]]|isbn=9780394724799|pages=6}}</ref> It was originally housed in $900-a-month ground-floor space in a warehouse at 137 Greene Street in [[SoHo, Manhattan|SoHo]]<ref name=Vitello2014/> before it moved to its present location, on the ground floor of a 19th-century cast-iron-fronted building at 35 Wooster Street, in the late 1980s.<ref name="Carol Vogel 2011">{{cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=February 3, 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/design/04vogel.html |title=The Drawing Center Expands Beyond Its Lines |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=September 11, 2022}}</ref> In its first year, the Drawing Center attracted 125,000 visitors.<ref name=Vitello2014/>

After a $10 million renovation in 2012, designed by Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture & Urban Design, the museum today occupies two and a half floors, 50 percent more exhibition space.<ref name="Same Museum, but a Brand-New Look">{{cite news|last=Loos |first=Ted |date=September 5, 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/arts/design/drawing-center-and-other-renovated-museums-reopen-in-fall.html |title=Same Museum, but a Brand-New Look |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=September 11, 2022}}</ref>