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Flora Payne Whitney served as a museum trustee, then as vice president. From 1942 to 1974, she was the museum's president and chair, after which she served as honorary chair until her death in 1986. Her daughter Flora Miller Biddle served as president until 1995. Her book The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made was published in 1999. [60]
25 Years Old: As of December, thanks to a $2 million gift from the artist Julie Mehretu, admission to New York’s Whitney Museum is now free for visitors 25 and under. Still, it can be a double ...
945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and from 2021 to March 2024 was the temporary quarters of the Frick Collection while the Henry Clay Frick House ...
The Whitney Museum of American Art 's original building is a collection of three 1838 rowhouses at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
While at the Whitney, he initiated the first multinational art purchase, [10] a work by Bill Viola today jointly owned by the Whitney Museum, the Pompidou, and the Tate, to cope with the large scale of many contemporary artworks in variable media, and created a seat for an artist on the Board of Trustees, with Chuck Close as its first incumbent ...
Christiane Paul is Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and professor emerita in the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is the author of the book Digital Art , which is part of the ' World of Art ' series published by Thames & Hudson .
Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet. During the Gilded Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt was America's richest man with an estimated net worth of $100 million, or ...
Outdoor works are usually presented as free-admission events. River (1995) takes place in a body of moving water. Breath (1998), commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, is a “living” gallery installation. At the Whitney, Eiko & Koma performed for four weeks during museum hours.