To my surprise and delight, I like the new Whitney. And that is the consensus of the cities’ major critics. From the outside, all agree that the building is hard to take in. It looks as if a beginner at Legos piled up a variety of horizontal units and they somehow balanced. The eastern and western facades are opposites—closed on the west and wide open on the east—for reasons the architect, Renzo Piano, described in The New Yorker, On the […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: art, New York City, Renzo Piano, The Whitney Museum of American Art