Inaugural Exhibiton

It's finally here! The new improved Whitney home in MePa that's supposed to finally put to rest the museum's rep as the also-ran of New York's major art institutions. As designed by international starchitect Renzo Piano, the building is certainly big, with 63,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor exhibition space. The Whitney takes advantage of all that room to mount the most extensive showing ever of its permanent collection (which comprises some 21,000 works in total). Filling the building top to bottom, the exhibition heralds the arrival of a brand new era for a museum that proudly maintains American Art in its name, even as the American Century sputters to a close.