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New Whitney Museum, Manhattan
The stunning new Whitney Museum of American Art is scheduled to open in Manhattan's Chelsea district next week.
The museum has produced an excellent video tracing its history in Manhattan from mid-town to Chelsea, including some of the marvelous features of its extraordinary new building: http://whitney.org/About/NewBuilding
The Whitney's move downtown from Madison Avenue to the former meatpacking district confirms a shift in New York's social geography, which has been decades coming, Michael Kimmelman reports on nytimes.com.
It ratifies Chelsea and the once-funky far West Village as something closer to what the Upper East Side used to be, say, circa 1966, the year Marcel Breuer’s Whitney building opened at 75th Street, he reported.
The new $422 million Whitney, which was designed by Renzo Piano and opens May 1, lets the city pour in, Kimmelman wrote.
The new $422 million Whitney, which was designed by Renzo Piano and opens May 1, lets the city pour in, Kimmelman wrote.
For more, including some interesting computer generated models of the new building's unique design and virtual tours of its new features: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/19/arts/artsspecial/new-whitney-museum.html?smid=tw-nytimes
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