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Whitney Museum: Comprehension of America

New building for the Whitney Museum of American Art, designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Renzo Piano was opened in Downtown Manhattan’s Meatpacking District on May 1, 2015. The building showcases the Whitney’s unsurpassed collection as never before, providing unprecedented space for exhibitions and programs, and contributing to the energy of a vibrant neighborhood.

One of the most significant cultural projects in New York City in this decade, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s new building, conceived as a laboratory for artists, the building affirms the Whitney’s role as the leading museum of modern and contemporary art of the United States. The new building’s indoor and outdoor galleries will approximately double the Whitney’s exhibition space and provide extraordinary possibilities for artists, curators, and audiences. It will enable the Whitney to expand its pioneering special exhibitions—including the Museum’s signature Whitney Biennial—and to present all of its exhibitions in the context of the Museum’s most extensive installation of its unsurpassed collection of twentieth-and twenty-first-century American art.

The building includes several firsts for the Whitney—dedicated space for education programs in the Laurie M. Tisch Education Center; the multi-use, 170-seat Susan and John Hess Family Theater; and the Sondra Gilman Study Center for works on paper—as well as the flexible Kaufman Gallery for film, video, and performance; the state-of-the-art Bucksbaum, Learsy, Scanlan Conservation Center; and the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library. With striking views of the Hudson River and into the city, the new building is designed to engage a lively and diverse local, national, and international audience in one of New York’s most vibrant neighborhoods.

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