New Whitney Museum Floor Plan

Craft in art 1950 2019 whitney museum of american art new york november 22 2019 january 2021.
New whitney museum floor plan. Untitled yes that is the name is the new fine dining restaurant from danny meyer s union square hospitality group helmed by chef michael anthony of gramercy tavern. Robert rauschenberg yoicks 1954 photograph by ryan lowry. Gertrude vanderbilt whitney the museum s namesake and founder was a well regarded sculptor as well as a serious art collector as a patron of the arts she had already achieved some success with the whitney studio club a new york based exhibition space she created in 1918 to promote the works of avant garde and unrecognized american artists. The whitney museum is building itself a new home in downtown manhattan s meatpacking district.
The whitney closes on the land purchase for the building site from the city of new york. From february 26 through may 14 2016 the whitney museum of american art will present open plan an experimental five part exhibition using the museum s dramatic fifth floor as a single open gallery unobstructed by interior walls the largest column free museum exhibition space in new york the neil bluhm family galleries measure 18 200 square feet and feature windows with striking views. Completed in 2015 in new york united states. New york people products video time lapse courtesy of earthcam inc.
Renzo piano architect of the whitney museum of american art s new downtown home in manhattan s meatpacking district stands in its vast fifth floor gallery during construction. Installation view of making knowing. Minoru yamasaki s world trade center towers for example worked beautifully as supertall exclamation points on the manhattan skyline but never connected to the human spirit at ground level. Organized in a rough chronological sequence beginning on the seventh floor the presentation is divided into eleven thematic chapters.
Images by nic lehoux karin jobst timothy schenck. The museum offers fine dining the ground floor and casual fare on the 8th floor. Some buildings look best from afar. View from whitney museum rooftop.
The more than two hundred works on display on the seventh and sixth floors represent a selection of the whitney museum of american art s collection. May 11 2011 the whitney and the metropolitan museum of art announce a collaborative agreement for the whitney s breuer building on the upper east side.