{"id":24132,"date":"2024-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/venues\/whitney-museum-of-american-art\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T01:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:10:47","slug":"whitney-museum-of-american-art","status":"publish","type":"venues","link":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/venues\/whitney-museum-of-american-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Museum of American Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>Whitney Museum of American Art<\/strong>, known informally as &#8220;<strong>The Whitney<\/strong>&#8220;, is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modern_art\">modern<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Contemporary_art\">contemporary<\/a>\u00a0American\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_museum\">art museum<\/a>\u00a0located in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meatpacking_District,_Manhattan\">Meatpacking District<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Village\">West Village<\/a>\u00a0neighborhoods of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manhattan\">Manhattan<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\">New York City<\/a>. The institution was originally founded in 1930 by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gertrude_Vanderbilt_Whitney\">Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney<\/a>\u00a0(1875\u20131942), a prominent American\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Socialite\">socialite<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sculpture\">sculptor<\/a>, and art patron after whom it is named.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Whitney focuses on collecting and preserving 20th- and 21st-century\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_art\">American art<\/a>. Its permanent collection, spanning the late-19th century to the present, comprises more than 25,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and artifacts of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_media\">new media<\/a>\u00a0by more than 3,500 artists. It places particular emphasis on exhibiting the work of living artists as well as maintaining institutional archives of historical documents pertaining to modern and contemporary American art, including the Edward and Josephine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Hopper\">Hopper<\/a>\u00a0Research Collection, the Sanborn Hopper Archive, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arshile_Gorky\">Arshile Gorky<\/a>\u00a0Research Collection, among others.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Museum#cite_note-:0-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>From 1966 to 2014, the Whitney was located at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/945_Madison_Avenue\">945 Madison Avenue<\/a>\u00a0on Manhattan&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upper_East_Side\">Upper East Side<\/a>\u00a0in a building designed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcel_Breuer\">Marcel Breuer<\/a>\u00a0and Hamilton P. 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The museum closed in October 2014 to relocate to its current building, which was designed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renzo_Piano\">Renzo Piano<\/a>\u00a0at 99\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gansevoort_Street\">Gansevoort Street<\/a>\u00a0and opened on May 1, 2015, expanding the museum exhibition space to 50,000 square feet.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Museum#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The museum organizes the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Biennial\">Whitney Biennial<\/a>, a bi-annual exhibition showcasing the work of emerging American artists, generally considered the most important and longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Museum#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Museum#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Museum#cite_note-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The museum also heads the Whitney Independent Study Program, which began in 1968, to support artists,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_criticism\">critics<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_history\">art historians<\/a>\u00a0by &#8220;encouraging the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Museum#cite_note-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Museum#cite_note-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In 2023, the Whitney was the 88th\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_most-visited_art_museums\">most-visited art museum<\/a>\u00a0in the world and the 13th most-visited art museum in the United States.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Museum#cite_note-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Museo de referencia en Nueva York dedicado al arte estadounidense moderno y contempor\u00e1neo. 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