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.
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Sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the museum in 1930 after the Met turned down her collection of American art; it has staged the Whitney Biennial since 1932.
The museum moved into a new Renzo Piano-designed building in the Meatpacking District in 2015, with multiple outdoor terraces worth budgeting extra time for.