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Whitney Museum of American Art

Category: Arts + Monuments + Museums

945 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10128
212.570.3676

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Whitney Museum of American Art - Reviews from across the web

Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria | Museum/Attraction Review | New York City | Frommers.com - expert review
This Midtown branch of the Whitney Museum of American Art features an airy sculpture court and a petite gallery that hosts changing exhibits, usually the works of living contemporary artists. Well worth peeking into if you happen to be in the neigh...
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Ultra-modern exhibits - user review
When you first see the Whitney Museum from the outside, you know a unique experience is in store. The building is built an an inverted stepped pyramid design, unlike anything else around...
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Always worth a visit - user review
Everytime we're in New York City, we make one trip to the Whitney since we're big Edward Hopper fans. Most of the time, the same works are displayed that we saw on our previous visit...
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Only for Lovers of Avant Garde - user review
Both the collection and the building here are extremely avant garde. There were only a few paintings that the average person would recognize as traditional art. The special exh...
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Very much modern and contemporary art - user review
I did not really enjoy this display of modern and contemporar...
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Best museum in NYC - user review
This museum is underrated & under visited, just the architecture of the building is enough to make it worth the visit. The art was amazing and more exciting than other museums. T...
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Whitney Museum of American Art - expert review
This museum grew out of a gallery in the studio of the sculptor and collector Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, whose talent and taste were fortuitously accompanied by the wealth of two prominent families. She offered her collection of 20th-century American art to the Met, but they turned it down, so she...
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I love it!!!!!! - user review
I love this musuem, they always have great exhibitions!!! It needs more promotion, a lot of people have never ...
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Whitney Museum of American Art | Museum/Attraction Review | New York City | Frommers.com - expert review
What is arguably the finest collection of 20th-century American art in the world belongs to the Whitney thanks to the efforts of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. A sculptor herself, Whitney organized exhibitions by American artists shunned by traditional academies, assembled a sizable personal collectio...
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