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This isn’t the Whitney’s first rodeo in trying to make art more accessible. Earlier this year, the prominent Meatpacking District museum made Friday nights and every second Sunday free to all.

New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art has raised its admissions prices to $30 for adults (previously $25) and $24 for students and seniors (previously $18).

The museum, founded in 1930 by sculptor and collector Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, got its start when Whitney offered 500 pieces to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. After it turned ...

So instead, she took those works and in 1931, opened the Whitney Museum of American Art in the studio West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. 7. ... (New York, NY), 1985. “Whitney Goes Pop”.

New York Today The Whitney Is Now Free for Those 25 and Under The painter Julie Mehretu donated $2 million to the art museum to encourage young people to visit.

Read our pick of the best New York art exhibitions to see in June, from Takashi Murakami at Gagosian, Pablo Picasso's still life works at Almine Reich, and Louise Giovanelli at GRIMM. With a ...

Photograph: Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art; New York/The Murray-Holman Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS); New York State Park (1946), Jared French ...

Fire breaks out in lobby of Whitney Museum; no injuries 00:21. NEW YORK -- There was a scare Thursday when a fire broke out at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.

The Whitney Museum of American Art opened its new home in New York City’s Meatpacking District on May 1, and New Yorkers and visitors have come in droves.

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