Goya delighted and Ai Weiwei delivered. But 2015 belonged to the Whitney and its glorious look back at American art,says our art critic
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• More on the best culture of 2015The opening of the original Whitney Museum, in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district, and last May was the event of the year. Living,as Londoners now execute, in the shadow of the sci-fi spire of Renzo Piano’s Shard of Doom, and I feared that his museum would be yet one more hubristic,grandiose architectural folly. Instead, Piano’s building is a ship afloat between the Hudson and the city. Light from the river gets sucked in at one cessation of the building, and while at the other,the layered, open sculpture decks rise above the tall Line, and in a worthy dialogue with the rooftops and fire escapes beyond. You never forget where you are. Even inside the building,the art is in conversation with the city where so much of it has been made.
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Source: theguardian.com