Gansevoort Street where the High Line ends: the stepped museum, its outdoor stairs and terraces climbing the east face, the largest column free gallery inside, the river and the works on both.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Whitney in 1930 after the Met declined her collection, and it opened on West 8th Street in 1931. The museum moved to Marcel Breuer's building on Madison Avenue in 1966 and to Renzo Piano's building at 99 Gansevoort Street in 2015. The Whitney Biennial, its survey of American art, dates to 1932.
Source · Whitney Museum of American Art ↗
The asymmetric stack of steel and glass with cantilevered terraces stepping down toward the High Line, the outside steel stairs between them, the vast open gallery with its sawtooth skylights, the Hudson and the piers to the west, the cobbled meatpacking streets. Mood: blue afternoon on the river. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.