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US First Lady Michelle Obama inaugurates the museum on 30 April, 2015
ABOUT RENZO PIANO.
Pritzker prize-winner Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937. His father was a builder, which sparked Piano’s interest in the industry. He graduated in 1964. In 1971, he and architect Richard Rogers set up Piano & Rogers in London; the practice won acclaim for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Piano then worked at Atelier Piano & Rice until he set up his current studio, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, in 1981. The architect’s works include the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, Maison Hermès in Tokyo, Japan, the New York Times’ headquarters in New York, the MUSE science centre in Trento, Italy, and the Shard in London. The Whitney Museum of American Art opened on 1 May, 2015.
the multiple exterior galleries as well as glimpse art works in the windows of the Conservation Lab and art receiving area.
How does his design represent the Whitney? The new building embodies the spirit and aspirations of the museum today and reaffi rms the Whitney’s core identity as the “artists’ museum”. The building was designed to present art in the best possible conditions and to provide artists with the greatest fl exibility to realise their work. It provides far more room to display the collection, which has grown to nearly 22,000 works. It represents a further opening up to the public with its transpar- ency, multiple indoor/outdoor spaces and, for the fi rst time, dedicated spaces devoted to the performing arts and education. It’s our fervent hope that the scale,
fl exibility and character of the gallery spaces – interior and exterior – will be an inspiration to artists for generations to come and provide welcoming spaces for visitors to experience art.
The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, was designed by Renzo Piano. It opened in 1987 54
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Can you tell us about the Artschwager elevators? Underscoring the importance of the art experience beginning immediately, the elevators were designed by artist Richard Artschwager and are the only commissioned work of art in the new building.
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