Whitney Museum receives $ 1.5 million from the Henry Luce Foundation
The current building of the museum of American Art Whitney
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Director of the Whitney Museum (Whitney Museum) Uyanberg Adam (Adam Weinberg) reported that the museum receives from the Foundation, Henry Luce (Henry Luce Foundation) and a half million dollars. The money spend on the Whitney installation and hanging of its permanent collection of works in the new museum building, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano (Renzo Piano) in the Mitpeking in Manhattan.
In addition, the Foundation will fund a special program description and study of museum collections, to be held before opened a new building in Manhattan. According to the director of the museum, this generous gift to the Foundation Luce - an important contribution to the development and future of the museum and aims to enhance public access to all the diversity and richness of American Art.
renovated Museum opened in 2015. Lined with a metal building is crowned with an asymmetrical roof, which will house areas for exhibitions in the open. Not far from the new museum building are Whitney High Line Park and the Hudson River. The former museum building on Madison Avenue, designed by Marcel Breuer, after moving to the Whitney's new place of residence becomes the Metropolitan Museum.
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