Whitney Museum of American Art. Photography © Ed Lederman

Michael Kimmelman from New York Times reviews ''The New Whitney Museum of American Art'' in New York designed by Renzo Piano.Kimmelman defines ''the New Whitney'' as a ''mixed coctail of money, real estate, fashion and art'' and his review also includes some interactive visuals by examining the building with its closer details.

From the West, along the Hudson River, it looks ungainly and a little odd, vaguely nautical, bulging where the shoreline jogs, a ship on blocks perhaps, alluding to one of New York’s bedrock industries from long ago. It’s a glittery emblem of new urban capital, shipping now having gone the way of so much else in the neighborhood.From the north, it resembles something else, a factory or maybe a hospital, with a utilitarian wall of windows and a cluster of pipes climbing the pale-blue steel facade toward a rooftop of exposed mechanicals.

And from the east, its bulk suddenly hides behind the High Line, above a light-filled, glass-enclosed ground floor that gives views straight through the building to the water.By moving downtown from Madison Avenue, the Whitney Museum of American Art does more than drop a cultural anchor at the High Line’s base, in the deracinated meatpacking district.....Continue Reading

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