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Is New Whitney Museum show shrouded in parochialism?

Turkey Architecture News - Apr 28, 2015 - 10:10   4994 views

Is New Whitney Museum show shrouded in parochialism?

Charles Ray's mannequin-like sculpture "Boy," 1992, in a gallery of art of the 1980s and 1990s.image via Whitney Museum

More than 30 years after the Whitney Museum of American Art announced its ambitious plan to substantially grow its facility, the deed is finally done.Accomplishing the feat meant abandoning its 1966 Upper East Side home and moving five miles to the rapidly gentrifying meatpacking district along the Hudson River.May Day marks the public debut for the Whitney's much-needed expansion.The new $422-million, nine-story building is the most recent of two dozen art museum designs by Italian architect Renzo Piano. Now the Whitney has something it never had before:substantial permanent collection galleries, including snazzy study-storage for 17,000 works on paper among its 22,000 art objects.The opening exhibition is a celebration of the fact......Continue Reading

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