Relaunching Softly: the Whitney’s Online Collection

Colin Brooks
Whitney Digital
Published in
7 min readFeb 24, 2019

The Whitney’s collection defines and drives much of our mission and our work. It is a unique resource, offering a lens into the historical and contemporary landscape of American art through more than 3,400 artists and 23,000 works of art. With the opening of the Whitney’s new building in 2015, nearly every work in the Museum’s collection was made available online for the first time.