Whitney Museum

Pre-Opening Weekend

The new Whitney Museum in the Meat Packing district at the end of the Highline does not  disappoint. The museum has an amazing outdoor stair walk that takes you from floor to floor while giving your eyes and senses a rest between exhibits. Genius! The exhibit features works form the permanent collection of American Art. Lots of interesting work and lots of different corners to peer around and stumble upon art. Sitting area in the back of the museum allow you to rest and take in the sights of the Hudson river. Free entry on May 2, 2015. Check it out.

Jeff Koons

A Retrospective

Whitney Museum of American Art

Jeff Koons show has something for everyone, no matter what your taste is. And I think that is the point of this whole exhibition. Jeff Koons mines popular culture and feeds it back the icons and totems of their collective “tastes” and shares it in exquisite form, without passing judgement on whether or not these works should be considered as high-brow or low-brow. Tastey Show. Check it out.

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Jeff Koons

A Retrospective—Banality Series

Whitney Museum of American Art

In one of the rooms, the Whitney as created this long, series of pedestals that you can walk along on both sides of the sculptures and see his Banality Series as a set. Very cool party of the retrospective. Jeff Koons is always playing with cultures’ sense of taste and these low brow fetishistic type objects have been raised to a high level. It is especially great to see the Michael Jackson and Bubbles the chimp sculpture. Jeff Koons has said that if he could have been anyone else in the world, he would have been Michael Jackson. This piece was created at the height of his popularity. Check it out.

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