A Video Tour of the New Whitney Museum with Curator Dana Miller

(jazz music)

(shoes clicking)

The inaugural exhibition that opens the museum

is called, America Is Hard to See.

The whole idea of American art means

something quite different in 2015

than it did in 1931 when it was founded.

The purpose of the exhibition is to examine that.

The whole notion of American as being something

that is fraught, challenging.

It helps thinking about what our mission is.

Our audience in this building is going to be

very different than our audience uptown.

But it's going to be much more international.

There's something like six million people

who visit the High Line every year.

Many of them are foreigners.

So we are aware

that at this moment

the museum and this large exhibition

is going to represent for a lot of people

their introduction to American art.