New York 06_

New York 06_

_Whitney Museum

945 MADISON AVENUEAT 75TH STREET,NY 10021, UPPER EAST SIDE
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Hours: WED-THU 11AM-6PM/FRI 1-9PM/SAT-SUN 11AM-6PM_ PAY WHAT YOU WISH FRI 6PM-9PM

Architect: Marcel Breuer 1966

The Whitney Museum houses one of the world's foremost collections of twentieth-century American art. It owes its striking granite presence at the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 75th Street to the Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981). To design a third home for the Museum—which had gradually migrated northward from its original location on West 8th Street to West 54th Street—Breuer worked with Hamilton Smith, creating a strong modernist statement in a neighborhood of traditional limestone, brownstone, and brick row houses and postwar apartment buildings. Considered somber, heavy, and even brutal at the time of its completion in 1966 ("an inverted Babylonian ziggurat," according to one critic), Breuer's building is now recognized as daring, strong, and innovative. It has come to be recognized as one of New York City’s most notable buildings and identified with the Whitney Museum's approach to art.

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