Whitney Museum Of American Art Previews Its New Downtown Location

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 23: People walk through a gallery at the relocated Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan's meatpacking district on April 23, 2015 in New York City. The building, which was designed by famed Italian architect Renzo Piano and has 50,000 square feet of galleries, will open to the public on May 1. The museum, which was founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was previously located in Manhattan's Upper East Side. The Whitney focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American art with a permanent collection of more than 21,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings and other media. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)