Image courtesy of Matthu Placek
The Whitney Museum of American Art is New York’s essential institutional oddball. The stately Metropolitan Museum of Art, with its grand Beaux Arts palace on upper Fifth Avenue, stands for history and permanence; the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in its coolly elegant Midtown digs, speaks for svelte, cosmopolitan sophistication and blockbuster artistic spectacles; but the Whitney is a thing apart, a cultural anomaly that’s managed to soldier on, decade after decade, propelled by little except its own dogged eccentricity.
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