After 48 years of service, the Whitney Museum's blocky, brutal Upper East Side outpost closed its doors on Sunday night. Construction-watching blogger Field Condition is apparently a devotee, and took a photographic tour of the place during its last weekend in operation before months of relocation to the new, Renzo Piano-designed location in the Meatpacking District. Others shared their reminiscences on social mediamostly via selfies with Koons pieces, but others in a more meaningful way. Meanwhile, uptown, the Marcel Breuer structure will become home to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's contemporary collection. The Whitney Downtown is slated to open in the spring of 2015.
Marcel Breuer. Whitney Museum of American Art. New York. 1966 #architecture #nyc pic.twitter.com/7gfV8iQZnl
— Daniel González (@DGArquitecto) October 9, 2014
Thanks for the memories, thanks for the 48 years in the Marcel Breuer building @whitneymuseum http://t.co/p1s6quQUtE
— Mira Schor (@miraschor) October 19, 2014
Sad to think of the #UpperEastSide without the @whitneymuseum. pic.twitter.com/Pwurl4zRVq
— Maryam Mujica (@mmujicaDC) October 23, 2014
Saying goodbye to the greatest stairway in the city, @WhitneyMuseum.Really hope @MetMuseum won't change it. pic.twitter.com/yTfLlYJD7L
— Matt Chaban (@MC_NYC) October 20, 2014
Vintage photos reveal Marcel Breuer's now-shuttered @WhitneyMuseum in all its brooding glory http://t.co/AYbh6UiEsv pic.twitter.com/QFOjqfo7x1
— Architizer (@Architizer) October 21, 2014
· Whitney Museum of Art - Uptown [FC]
· Renzo Piano's Whitney on the High Line Nears Completion [Curbed]
· All Whitney Museum coverage [Curbed]
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