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Subway: at 14th Street – Eighth Avenue Bus: M11, M12, M14A, M14D. Website. whitney.org. The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as " The Whitney ", is a modern and contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.
Feb 17, 2019 · See a map of the Whitney Museum in NYC. Find all the information you need about the Whitney Museum, including ticketing, hours, admission and what you can expect to see there.
The Building. Designed by architect Renzo Piano and situated between the High Line and the Hudson River, the Whitney’s building in the Meatpacking District offers the most expansive display ever of its unsurpassed collection of modern and contemporary American art.
The Whitney’s collection includes over 25,000 works created by more than 3,600 artists in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. At its core are Museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s personal holdings, totaling some six hundred works when the Museum opened in 1931.
As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art, and its collection ...
Admission to the Whitney is free from 5–10 pm every Friday evening. Join us for free admission, music, and special programming. Reserve Tickets. Admission to the Whitney is free all day on the second Sunday of every month. Join us for artmaking, activities, tours, classes, and other special events. Reserve Tickets.
Jun 28, 2019 · Explore an archive of Whitney exhibitions going back to 1931. View archive.
