United StatesWhitney Museum of American Art is the #32,934 most-subscribed YouTube channel worldwide and #8,670 in United States, with 33.2K subscribers and 6.3M total views across 846 videos.
Biography
The Whitney Museum of American Art is a modern and contemporary American art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The institution was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a prominent American socialite, sculptor, and art patron after whom it is named.
Channel description
The Whitney is your home for American art.
As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of 20th-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art, and its collection—arguably the finest holding of 20th-century American art in the world—is the Museum's key resource. The Museum's signature exhibition, the Biennial, is the country's leading survey of the most recent developments in American art.
Cover image: Glenn Ligon, Rückenfigur, 2009. Neon and paint, 24 × 145 1/2 × 5 in. (61 × 369.6 × 12.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 2011.3a-i. © Glenn Ligon
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