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Whitney Museum of American Art, photograph by Timothy Schenck The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that it will open its new home in Chelsea on 1 May 2015. With double the exhibition space of its "old" Marcel Breuer-designed building, the museum will be able to show far more of its collection of Modern and contemporary American art in its Renzo Piano-designed new space in the Meatpacking District. Adam Weinberg, the Whitney's director, called the two floors of collections galleries a "game changer" for the museum in a statement. A year ago he told us more about his hopes for the institution when it realises its long-held ambition to expand.

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