The Collection marking the arrival of a new millennium at the Whitney Museum of American Art includes primarily installed works of art and contemporary photographs. The Whitney Museum of American Art, also recognized as the fortress of American art, offers the public the opportunity to witness the history of American art of the last hundred years. The museum's collection reflects their commitment to showcasing Whitney's dedication to art in modern America. Museum founder Gertrude V. Whitney, patron of the arts; he was a highly regarded sculptor as well as a serious art collector. He originally created the "Whitney Studio Club", a New York-based exhibition created in 1918 to promote the works of avant-garde and unrecognized American artists. After collecting nearly 700 works by American artists, he then offered them as a donation to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1929. The Metropolitan Museum's refusal to accept his donation, favoritism for European modernism due to the opening of the Museum of Modern Art, led Whitney to open his own museum, which would be intended to exhibit American art, in 1931. The museum was originally located near West Eighth Street. In 1950 it moved its headquarters to a small structure behind the Museum of Modern Art. They finally settled in 1966 on the southeast corner of Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The current building, built by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton P. Smith in a decidedly modern style, is easily distinguished from its neighbors by its stepped façade made of granite stones and inverted exterior windows. The examples from the Whitney Collection for the year 2000 have several elements in common... the paper half... the pristine photographic print and the glossy sculptural surface. The photographs are in color but with this sort of visual deception Muniz subverts photography by using it to reveal his own unreliability. Coplans with his black and white self-portraits of his aging hands is a mere representation of the celebration of his present in anticipation of his future. Many in the art community believe that the era is the pinnacle of artistic evolution. Photorealism will continue to dominate this era just as installation art will continue to develop with artistic performances incorporating elements such as instrumental or electronic music, singing, dance, television, film, sculpture or spoken dialogue. Contemporary artists will continue to transcend standards or criteria of their art and separate themselves from traditional boundaries with their work.