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In 1929, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art rejected Whitney's offer of the gift of nearly 500 new artworks that she had collected, Whitney established the Whitney Museum of American Art. [12] In 1931, she had architect Auguste L. Noel of the firm of Noel & Miller convert the three row houses at 8–12 West 8th Street into a gallery and ...
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]
Diller Scofidio + Renfro is the subject of Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio, published by the Whitney Museum of American Art in tandem with their 2003 exhibition and including essays by Aaron Betsky, K. Michael Hays, and Laurie Anderson; [70] the monograph Diller + Scofidio (+Renfro): The Ciliary Function by Guido ...
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 ...
Follow Through – A Mobile Media Project, Whitney Museum of American Art (12/01 – 01/29) 2006. Translations: Misguided Machines and Cultural Loops – Selected Works by Students of the Design+Media Dept., RISD, Emergence at DUO Theater, NYC (11/04 – 11/26) Second Natures – Eli & Edythe Broad Art Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (09/13 ...
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A+D Museum was founded by Stephen Kanner and Bernard Zimmerman in 2001. [3] [4] Kanner was inspired by a similar museum he had visited in Helsinki, Finland.[4]The museum first opened its doors in January 2001 in the Bradbury Building, located at 304 South Broadway (3rd Street and Broadway) in downtown Los Angeles; a space donated by Ira Yellin.
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