For decades, the Wellfleet home of Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer (1901-1981) sat empty, its contents and structure falling into disrepair. Peter McMahon, an ...
Transforming a world-class museum into an auction house is more complicated than it sounds. For one thing, Sotheby’s will need to tear down five walls in its biggest gallery the night before its ...
Sotheby’s entered a new era on Friday morning, as it unveiled its first auction previews in the historic Breuer Building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. A former home of three different museums at ...
Despite its status as an architectural celebrity, the Breuer building, commissioned by the Whitney Museum in the 1960s, has never had an easy relationship with New York City. With a hulking, top-heavy ...
For $100 million, Sotheby’s bought a masterpiece by Marcel Breuer, the former home of the Whitney Museum. It has a thoughtful new interior. The Breuer building on Madison Avenue is an upside down ...
On Wednesday afternoon, three days before Sotheby’s was set to open its new home in the old Whitney, the auction house’s CEO, Charles Stewart, was standing in the old-new lobby, snapping an iPhone ...
Nadia Chaudhury is a born-and-raised New Yorker who is an editor for Eater’s Northeast region and Eater New York, was the former Eater Austin editor for 10 years, and often writes about food and pop ...
There are landmarks the public instantly adores and others to which their eyes and hearts must adjust. Take Marcel Breuer’s design for the Whitney Museum of American Art. When it first opened in 1966, ...
Marcel Breuer’s HUD headquarters may be in jeopardy, but folks who adore the the Hungarian emigre’s most famous New York work now have good reason to celebrate. The former Whitney Museum of American ...
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted unanimously Tuesday to add Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Museum and a portion of its lower-level interior to its list of more than 38,000 ...
Just off Interstate 94 in Collegeville, Minnesota, is a striking architectural wonder that was brought to life by renowned architect Marcel Breuer: Saint John's Abbey Church at Saint John's University ...