New York City: Whitney Museum

New York City is home to several prestigious museums…I visited the Whitney Museum NYC when it first opened at its new location in 2015. The building alone is breathtaking. Designed by Renzo Piano it intersects with the entrance to the now celebrated High-line. 

Whitney Museum NYC

I grew up in NYC, and went to high school a few blocks away from the old Whitney. I spent many an afternoon at the impressive museum. So it was with much trepidation that I reserved my tickets online for the ‘new’ Whitney.

The Whitney’s collection features over 21,000 artworks by more than 3,000 artists in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The exhibition “America Is Hard to See,” utilizes over six hundred works from the Whitney’s collection; some incredibly well known and others rarely seen before. A Robert Frost poem inspired the painting

poem.

Organized chronologically by date, each floor celebrated the American masters of each generation. Jasper John’s Three Flags was a perfect focal point for the exhibition “America is Hard to See,” Jasper John’s Three Flags was originally acquired by the Whitney in 1980 for one million dollars to celebrates it’s fiftieth anniversary (that’s some anniversary present).

On your next trip to NYC, be sure to save a day to take it all in. Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St., New York, NY 10014; (212) 570-3600; http://whitney.org/