Michael Gross Suggests Novel Scheme for Whitney's Breuer Building

As the Whitney Museum of American Art prepares to break ground on its new, Renzo Piano-designed home in the Meatpacking District, there is a giant question mark hovering over the museum’s handsome Marcel Breuer flagship. The Brutalist landmark is coveted by the nearby Metropolitan Museum of Art as a swell satellite exhibition space, and talks are reportedly ongoing. In the meantime, The Art Newspaper invited a few experts to offer suggestions for the old building’s fate once the Whitney decamps downtown in a few years.

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