The Whitney Museum of American Art – known informally as the “Whitney” – is an art museum located in Manhattan. After approximately 50 years in its Marcel-Breur-designed building on Madison Avenue at 75th Street, the Whitney Museum decamped in 2015 to a brand new home in Lower Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, conceived by international starchitect Renzo Piano. Planted at the foot of the High Line along Gansevoort Street, the new Whitney building boasts some 63,000 square feet of both indoor and outdoor exhibition space. Founded in 1931 by sculptor and art patron Gertrude Vanderbilt, the Whitney Museum—NYC’s top art museum for 20th- and 21st-century American art—is presenting the work of several young American artists. It has collection about 15,000 pieces including paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs by nearly 2,000 artists.
