method of encouraging anyone to get on stage and perform on amateur nights, and for its method of removing bad performers from the stage by yanking them off with a wooden hook. Starting in the 1890s, a stage-prop shepherd's hook was used to pull bad performers bodily from the stage, after audience members shouted, "Give 'im the hook." The phrase, "Give him the hook" originated at Miners Bowery Theatre. New Museum In December 2007, the New Museum opened the doors of its new location at 235 Bowery, at Prince Street, continuing its focus of exhibiting international and women artists and artists of color. This new facility, designed by the Tokyo-based firm Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA and the New York-based firm Gensler, has greatly expanded the Museum's exhibitions and space. In March 2008, the museum's new building was named one of the architectural seven wonders by Conde Nast Traveler. The museum has an ongoing Bowery Project honoring artists who lived on the Bowery with taped interviews and archived records. Notable people Béla Bartók lived in 350 Bowery at the corner of Great Jones Street during the 1940s. William S. Burroughs kept an apartment at the former YMCA building at 222 Bowery, known as the Bunker, from 1974 until he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1981. Jim Gaffigan lives with his wife and five children in a five-story walk-up apartment on the Bowery. Michael Goldberg lived at 222 Bowery. Eva Hesse lived in her studio at 134 Bowery. Charles Hinman, abstract artist, lives in the building now adjacent to the New Museum. Owen Kildare American writer whose short stories and novels described the grim realities of life in a New York slum, known as "the Mr. Bounderby of American Letters" and "the Kipling of the Bowery". Ronnie Landfield, abstract painter, lived at 94 Bowery. Kate Millett, second-wave feminist, artist, scholar, writer (Sexual Politics), now in the U.S. National Women's Hall of Fame, lived at 295 Bowery, in the late 1990s to early 2000s. Haoui Montaug, doorman-to-the-stars, lived at the corner of the Bowery and East 2nd Street. He committed suicide in his apartment after inviting 20 guests for the occasion. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada lived on Bowery when the Hare Krishna Movement began in America in 1966. Joey Ramone resided in the area, and in 2003 a part of 2nd Street near the intersection of Bowery and 2nd Street was renamed Joey