New York, United States

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930 by sculptor and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to support living American artists. Since 2015 it has occupied a building by Renzo Piano in Manhattan's Meatpacking District at the southern end of the High Line, with cantilevered galleries, broad outdoor terraces, and one of the largest column-free exhibition spaces in New York. The museum holds an unparalleled collection of 20th- and 21st-century American art and is best known for the Whitney Biennial, the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States.

The Whitney Museum of American Art is a modern and contemporary American art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The institution was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a prominent American socialite, sculptor, and art patron after whom it is named. Source: Wikipedia