The auction house Sotheby’s will buy the modernist Marcel Breuer-designed building that housed New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art for nearly 50 years
FILE — The Whitney Museum of American Art, center, is shown on New York's Madison Avenue, Jan. 25, 2005. The auction house Sotheby's will buy the modernist Marcel Breuer-designed building that housed New York's Whitney Museum of American Art for nearly 50 years, Sotheby's announced Thursday, June 1, 2023.
“We are honored to acquire and write the next chapter of such an iconic and well-known New York architectural landmark," Sotheby's Chief Executive Officer Charles F. Stewart said in a statement. The building was leased to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for five years after the Whitney's 2015 move to its new Renzo Piano-designed building at the foot of the High Line, the elevated park on Manhattan's west side. The Met operated the former Whitney building as the Met Breuer until 2020, and the Frick Collection has occupied the building since 2021 while its permanent home is being renovated.
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