What lies in store for the Whitney’s eight historic brownstones, which were recently sold to New Jersey entrepeneur Daniel Straus? Perhaps a look back at the museum’s past, since its founding in 1931 to the succession of successful and failed expansion plans that followed, can help answer that question.
When the news broke last month that the Whitney Museum had sold an octet of brownstones next to its Marcel Breuer home on the Upper West Side, it intensified rumors that the institution planned to someday fully abandon the neighborhood for the new museum it is building next to the High Line. Now that Read More
The Whitney Museum of American Art will replace homey with hip at its new downstairs café, set to open this winter. The museum announced this morning that it has selected the Rockwell Group to design the restaurant, which will be operated by the tasty but omnipresent Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group.
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