Open AccessNEW BUILDING OF THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART IN NEW YORK
Author(s) -
Anna Jasińska,
Artur Jasiński
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
muzealnictwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2391-4815
pISSN - 0464-1086
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0011.7190
Subject(s) - piano , visual art of the united states , architecture , art history , visual arts , attendance , popularity , sculpture , art , club , performance art , political science , medicine , law , anatomy
On the 1st of. May 2015, in Meatpacking Districtof West Manhattan, the new building of the WhitneyMuseum of American Art was opened. It is the fourth locationof this well-known New York museum, which wasestablished in 1930, by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. TheWhitney possesses the world’s largest collection of Americanart and focuses on exhibiting living artists. Spectacular, industrialin character architecture signed by Renzo Piano hasmet with mixed reactions. The building is functional andwell connected with the post-industrial site, however, notappreciated by everyone. Similar situation happened fortyyears ago, when Centre of Georges Pompidou, designed byRenzo Piano and Richard Rogers, pioneers of high-tech architecture,was widely criticised. Only popularity, high attendanceand commercial success of famous Paris facilitychanged that negative opinion. Is the New Whitney followingthe same path – time will tell.