The Whitney’s Final Uptown Hang: Lots of Men and a Few Heartening Surprises.

Cette institution d’Uptown a migré l’an dernier à Meatpacking, l’ex-quartier des abattoirs, où Renzo Piano, entre High Line et fleuve Hudson, lui a dessiné une rigoureuse enveloppe d’angles et de métal. The Whitney is one of the four great museums of New York City, the others being the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim.

The Whitney Museum of American Art is the world’s leading museum of twentieth-century and contemporary art of the United States. Floor to ceiling glass walls flood galleries with natural light and allow artworks big and small to shine. Par . Tourisme Etats-Unis : New York . By BEN G. FRANK JUNE 21, 2015 00:28 le 09 décembre 2016. Founded by sculptor and arts patron Gertude Vanderbilt Whitney, the Museum opened its doors on West Eight Street in Greenwich Village in 1931. Andrew Russeth More Stories by Andrew. Thomas Jean. Whitney Museum of American Art: Much Better Downtown than it was Uptown - See 3,142 traveler reviews, 1,781 candid photos, and great deals for New York City, NY, at Tripadvisor. At the Koons survey, I found myself wishing the last show in the Breuer building had instead been the Biennial (which closed in late May). Whitney Museum. Review Field Condition October 21, 2014 Whitney Museum Uptown, Whitney Museum, Marcel Breuer, New York City, New York, Museum, Granite Comment Field Condition October 21, 2014 Whitney Museum Uptown, Whitney Museum, Marcel Breuer, New York City, New York, Museum, Granite Comment Most New Yorkers learned to love Marcel Breuer’s imposing concrete fortress on Madison Avenue, but it’s hard not to swoon outright over Renzo Piano’s new home for the Whitney Museum of American Art at 99 Gansevoort Street and the downtown end of the High Line. Whitney Museum of Art - Uptown. By Andrew Russeth. A section drawing of the Breuer-designed Whitney. The Whitney later moved uptown and was, until 2015, housed in a Marcel Breuer-designed building on Madison Avenue … Whitney Museum The west entrance of the Breuer-designed Whitney.