Category: Museum Director
Nationality: American
Last Year: 11

The Whitney Museum’s new, downtown, Renzo Piano-designed, High Line-anchoring, I-guess-the-Meatpacking-District-is-still-hip building broke ground in May under Weinberg’s directorship. We have it on good authority that after this year’s Whitney Gala, which honoured The New Yorker’s visual-arts profiler extraordinaire Calvin Tomkins (holy shit, a writer!?) and took place on Pier 57 (what? The same pier that served as a detention centre for 1,400 protesters during the Republican National Convention back in 2004!?), Weinberg will host all future Whitney events in a roped-off section of the Standard’s Boom Boom Room in the West Village (contact the Whitney Development Office for naming opportunities). ‘Ye Olde Whitney’ is what the Metropolitan Museum of Art, future occupant of the Whitney’s Marcel Breuer-designed headquarters on the Upper East Side, has taken to calling the building in official correspondence, apparently with Weinberg’s blessing.