Familiar Faces: First Lady Michelle Obama and Mayor Bill de Blasio

First Lady of the United States of America Michelle Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio were joined by Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, Architect Renzo Piano, Robert J. Hurst, Co-Chairman of Whitney Board of Trustees, Brooke Garber Neidich, Co-Chairman of Whitney Board of Trustees, Neil G. Bluhm, President of Whitney Board of Trustees, Flora Miller Biddle, Honorary Chairman of Whitney Board of Trustees and granddaughter of Museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Matana Roberts, composer and alto saxophonist, performing a commissioned musical work, Incantation, The Wooster Group, renowned experimental theatre company performing the ribbon-cutting, and teens from the Whitney's Youth Insights Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art dedication ceremony and official ribbon-cutting at 99 Gansevoort Street in Manhattan on Thursday, April 30, 2015. The Whitney Museum of American Art returns to downtown Manhattan where it was founded in 1930 by artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
First Lady Michelle Obama and Mayor Bill de Blasio

First Lady of the United States of America Michelle Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio were joined by Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, Architect Renzo Piano, Robert J. Hurst, Co-Chairman of Whitney Board of Trustees, Brooke Garber Neidich, Co-Chairman of Whitney Board of Trustees, Neil G. Bluhm, President of Whitney Board of Trustees, Flora Miller Biddle, Honorary Chairman of Whitney Board of Trustees and granddaughter of Museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Matana Roberts, composer and alto saxophonist, performing a commissioned musical work, Incantation, The Wooster Group, renowned experimental theatre company performing the ribbon-cutting, and teens from the Whitney's Youth Insights Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art dedication ceremony and official ribbon-cutting at 99 Gansevoort Street in Manhattan on Thursday, April 30, 2015. The Whitney Museum of American Art returns to downtown Manhattan where it was founded in 1930 by artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.