This fall, the New Museum will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a dynamic series of exhibitions, programs, and publications. Honoring its rich legacy of advancing new ideas and promoting the work of groundbreaking artists, the Museum will engage its past, present, and future with the launch of a redesigned Digital Archive; a publication and exhibition exploring the Museum's four-decade history; and a two-day event bringing together in conversation a range of artists from the Museum's first forty years. In addition, the Museum will debut two new galleries as the first phase of an expansion, and will open the exhibition "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon," which looks to the current cultural moment and beyond, ushering in a new chapter in the institution's history. Exhibitions devoted to emerging artists Kahlil Joseph and Petrit Halilaj, both opening September 27, will inaugurate the South Galleries, which are designated for premiering new productions at the Museum. Alex Da Corte will inaugurate the storefront window of the building with the installation, Harvest Moon, curated by Margot Norton, the first in a new series paying homage to the window installations that the New Museum mounted in the 1980s. "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" is a major exhibition investigating gender's place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition, occupying the three main gallery floors, features an intergenerational group of artists who explore gender beyond the binary to usher in more inclusive expressions of identity. The exhibition is on view from September 27, 2017, to January 21, 2018, and is curated by Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement, with Natalie Bell, Assistant Curator, and Sara O'Keeffe, Assistant Curator. In concert with the Digital Archive relaunch, "Pursuing the Unpredictable" reflects on the New Museum's history as an alternative museum committed to art, ideas, and institutional practices at the forefront of culture and discourse. The exhibition is on view from September 27, 2017, to January 21, 2018, and is curated by Alicia Ritson, Marcia Tucker Senior Research Fellow. The New Museum will launch its redesigned Digital Archive in September 2017. Design studio Linked by Air has crafted a bold new website that will present over 10,000 archival materials and objects that illustrate the Museum's distinct forty-year history and its role in advancing contemporary art.