Choyamba chinatsegulidwa mu 1931, Whitney Museum ya American Art mwina ndi nyumba yosungiramo zinthu zamtengo wapatali kwambiri yoperekedwa kwa American art and artists. Zomwe amasonkhanitsa zimaphatikizapo zaka za m'ma 20 ndi 21 komanso zojambula zamakono za ku America, zomwe zikugogomezera ntchito ya ojambula. Ojambula oposa 3,000 athandizira kusonkhanitsa zithunzi zopangidwa 21,000, zithunzi, zojambula, mafilimu, mafilimu komanso zithunzi.
Chiwonetsero chachisindikizo cha Biennial chikuwonetseratu ntchito yomwe adaitanidwa ndi ojambula ojambula zithunzi, zomwe zikuwonetseratu zochitika zamakono za ku America.
Zimene Mukuyenera Kudziwa Poyendera Whitney
- Alendo a Whitney akhoza kusangalala ndi maulendo a tsiku ndi tsiku a zokolola ndi mawonetsero. Palibe zosungirako zofunika.
- Malo osungirako, malo odyera a ku America, amachititsa khofi ndi madyerero m'mawa ndipo amatseguka chakudya chamadzulo, chakudya chamadzulo ndi sabata.
- Studio Cafe ikuyendetsa bwino nthawi yoyamba. Ili ndi mawindo apansi mpaka kumalo komanso malo a Manhattan . Malo okhala kunja amapezeka m'chilimwe.
Zambiri Zambiri za Whitney Museum of American Art
Pambuyo pa Metropolitan Museum of Art anakana udindo wake ndi kusonkhanitsa, wojambula zithunzi Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney adakhazikitsa Whitney Museum ya American Art mu 1931 kuti akonze zojambula zoposa 500 zojambulajambula zomwe adazipeza kuyambira mu 1907.
Ankaonedwa ngati wotsogoleredwa ndi luso la America mpaka imfa yake mu 1942.
The Whitney amadziwika ndi ntchito zake mu Modernism ndi Social Realism, Precisionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, ndi Postminimalism. Ojambula omwe amapezeka ku nyumba yosungiramo zinthu zakale ndi Alexander Calder, Mabel Dwight, Jasper Johns, Georgia O'Keeffe ndi David Wojnarowicz.
Malo Akale ndi Amakono
Malo ake oyamba anali ku Greenwich Village ku West Eighth Street. Kukula kwa nyumba yosungirako zinthu zakale kukuthandizani kuti muzisunthira kangapo. Mu 1966, idasamukira ku nyumba yomangidwa ndi Marcel Breuer pa Madison Avenue. Mu 2015, Whitney Museum inabwereranso ku nyumba yatsopano yokonzedwa ndi Renzo Piano. Imakhala pakati pa High Line ndi Hudson River m'dera la Meatpacking. Nyumbayi ili ndi makilomita 200,000 ndi masitepe asanu ndi atatu.
Werengani zambiri zokhudza mbiri ya Whitney Museum.