Breuer's Art of Space-Explore an Architectural Icon

Discover more about this iconic building and its architect, Marcel Breuer, and The Met's four years of innovative exhibitions in the remarkable space. Hear from insiders, experts, and even Breuer himself as you take a virtual tour through the building's history and The Met's renovation, with excerpts from The Met Breuer Architecture Audio Tour.
The full 30 minute podcast-style audio tour is available to listen to here:
www.metmuseum....
Narrated by:
Marcel Breuer, excerpts from a 1962 radio interview
Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University and co-editor of Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions
Nina Diamond, Narrator
Sheena Wagstaff, Leonard A. Lauder Chairman, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Met
Jack Beyer, lead architect of the restoration and co-founder of Beyer Blinder Belle
Brian Butterfield, former senior design manager for exhibitions at The Met, who advised on the restoration
Video Production:
Managing Producers: Nina Diamond, Kate Farrell
Producer: Melissa Bell
Editor: Stephanie Wuertz
Music: Austin Fisher
Images courtesy of:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
© Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
© Bauhaus-Dessau, Germany / Foto: Tenschert, Yvonne, 2011
Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries
Bureau of Land Reclamation, photograph by H. S. Holmes
Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images
Office de Tourisme de Flaine, France / photozoom
Saint John’s Abbey Archives, Collegeville, Minnesota
© Ezra Stoller / Esto
Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies
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[@marcozg77]

The Breuer Building is such a stunning building.

[@ncats8]

Thank you!

[@davidmayhew8083]

Masterpiece.

[@EdwinCarrasco_]

1:30 amazing structure.

[@alonso.castac]

0:40 Saint John’s Abbey, what a beauty

[@SankofaNYC]

Wait wait wait wait.... Is this a farewell video... 🥺🤯😭... I hope not... I've loved this building and all the art I've seen in it

[@b3z3jm3nny]

Sankofa NYC it’s a lease from the Whitney, so hopefully it’ll still be an art museum but yeah I’ll def miss the Met Breuer :(

[@cule189911]

@@b3z3jm3nny i believe they are leasing it to THE FRICK COLLECTION next

[@b3z3jm3nny]

first name it’ll be interesting seeing all the old masters in a brutalist/bauhaus building... def gonna miss seeing contemporary art there

[@SankofaNYC]

@@cule189911 yeah I actually think I remember hearing about it going to The Frick Collection... No disrespect but I'm not incredibly excited about that 😫🙃

[@llliiiiiiiiiiijjj]

bittersweet...but, O to have been a New Yorker during this legendary run of exhibits by the Met! ...now how 'bout doing a 4 year performance exhibition series at the Armory space? ; )

[@shadowraith1]

Thanks for sharing. I've a memory of those windows. :)

[@stevenwilliambaylessparks3730]

The Whitney is striking from the outside, but cold and tomb-like on the inside.

[@edwardrichardson8254]

I worked at the Whitney in the 90s, the building is a disaster, all these granite plates he put on the outside were cracking and had to be replaced. It's striking to me these Bauhaus Jews embraced a grandiose pillbox fortress flak tower mentality (they were all morose communists), the same stark concrete architecture embraced by the very people who would be putting them into ovens. When it comes to Brutalist landmarks, nothing surpasses Hitler's Hamburg bunker.