Selfies are allowed at Whitney Museum | Page Six

The Whitney Museum’s director, Adam Weinberg, is cool with you taking selfies in front of the art on display.

“I think a lot of people’s instinct is to photograph what’s there often before they even [look at it closely],” he said during a Q&A at the Miami Beach Edition. “I think that’s OK. I think every generation has a different way of doing it.”

Weinberg added, “If people are photographing or doing other things in the gallery, I think it’s absolutely fine, because museums shouldn’t be necessarily cloisters that are separated.”

He said of the Whitney’s new Renzo Piano-designed home at the High Line, “There are wonderful cloister-like museums, but the Whitney Museum is about the present.”