When Titian Met Tuymans: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Elegantly Occupies the Whitney’s Breuer Building

Andrew Russeth | ARTnews | 1st March 2016

New York’s Metropolitan has a remit to collect the art of the last 50 centuries. “Unfinished”, the inaugural show in its new building, signals an effort to be more contemporary. Is it an institution transformed? Jerry Saltz is skeptical – “not a fresh or invigorating perspective on postwar art”. Most critics, though, are more positive. “This is a golden age for Manhattan’s art museums and … the Met is upping its game.”