The Met Breuer, Art museum at Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, New York, US
The Met Breuer is an art museum on Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York, which was housed in a geometric concrete building with asymmetrical windows across six floors. The facade of concrete and granite gave the building a distinctive appearance among the surrounding residential blocks.
Marcel Breuer designed the building, completed in 1966, for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Met opened its branch museum there in March 2016 after Beyer Blinder Belle renovated the interior, following an agreement signed with the Whitney in 2011. The Met closed it permanently in June 2020, and the Frick Collection used the building as Frick Madison from March 18, 2021 until 2024.
The building is named after Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer, who designed it for the Whitney Museum. When the Met took over in 2016, its opening shows paired a Nasreen Mohamedi survey with "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible", spanning 500 years of incomplete works, including Picasso's 1931 Woman in a Red Armchair, shown for the first time.
The museum occupied the Breuer Building at 945 Madison Avenue, at the corner of East 75th Street on the Upper East Side. The entrance sits in a low recessed area at the base of the stone volume, below the cantilevered upper section. The Met held an eight-year lease on the building from the Whitney, with an option to renew for five and a half more years.
The Met Breuer occupied the Breuer Building, completed in 1966 and designed by Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. The Met held an eight-year lease from the Whitney, with an option to renew for five and a half more years, until about 2029. The museum closed permanently in 2020, and the Frick Collection reopened the building as the Frick Madison on March 18, 2021.
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