Whitney Museum Benefits From Changing Fortunes

The duo Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler will also be represented in the permanent collection for the first time with “T.S.O.Y.W.,” a 2007 two-channel projection. The work, depicting an art road trip, is a modern-day interpretation of Goethe’s romantic novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther.”

Some acquisitions deepened the museum’s holdings. The Whitney added to its collection of Sherrie Levine works by buying 18 inkjet prints — “Equivalents: After Stieglitz,” from 2006 — based on Stieglitz’s 1920s and ’30s series of cloud images.