A visit to the Whitney Museum and The High Line in New York City
The Whitney Museum is the home of contemporary art in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, after an offer of over 500 modern works of art to the Metropolitan Museum and was turned away. In 2014 the Whitney Museum of American Art moved into its third “permanent home”, a brand new building in the Meatpacking district of Manhattan. Today, the Whitney’s collection includes works by almost every major American artist of the 20th and 21st centuries. It also hosts major exhibitions and retrospectives. photo by Beyond My Ken, via Wikimedia commons Amy Sherald: American Sublime (through August 10, 2025) The main show at the Whitney is a retrospective of the life work of Amy Sherald (b. 1973). Ms. Sherald is an African American painter who produces portraits that she describes as simplified realism. She presents her subjects against simple, usually monochromatic, backgrounds. Sherald’s subjects are all of African American descent, but s...