When the exhibition space re-opens, under new management, this is one of the empty spaces that will be filled, and this post on the New Yorker website makes us think it would have been interesting to see the spaces empty, before:

On Friday, March 18th, the Metropolitan Museum of Art invites the public into the Met Breuer, better known for the past fifty years as the Whitney. (The Met is leasing the building for eight years, while its modern and contemporary wing undergoes a radical transformation.) Fun fact: the Whitney might not have existed at all if the Met had accepted Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s offer, in 1929, of five hundred works of American art, plus an endowment to sweeten the deal. But the Met declined the donation. When the building—the Whitney’s third home—first opened, in 1966, Marcel Breuer’s gloriously intransigent upside-down ziggurat, made of granite-clad concrete, proved controversial. One detractor dubbed it “the monster of Madison Avenue.” But Breuer had a clear vision, as he told a reporter at the time: “Outside, it is expression; inside, only proportion. It stands back and lets you see the pictures.”

In the images above, the New York photographer Bill Jacobson shows us the building stripped of its pictures…

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