The New Whitney: A Dialogue between Architecture and Art

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During the years in its Madison Avenue building, the Whitney’s programs displayed the range, complexity, scale, and ambition of contemporary art. As the Whitney created the plans for its new home in downtown Manhattan, its dedication to artists, who have played a vital role in shaping its program and history, guided the Whitney’s curators as they worked with architect Renzo Piano to design the new exhibition spaces. These spaces include a skylit gallery on the Museum’s eighth floor, an expansive 18,000-square-foot column-free gallery on the fifth floor, and a series of outdoor terraces that extend the spaces for art into outdoor platforms with the city as background. The flexible exhibition spaces embody an open-ended approach to history and also reflect the reality that modern and contemporary artists have engaged various modes of production and often broken the boundaries separating various media. In this presentation, chief curator and deputy director for programs Donna De Salvo will tell the rich and complex story behind the evolution of the building design.

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