Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art. Explore works, exhibitions, and events online. Located in New York City.
Collection | Whitney Museum of American Art
Collection 26,000+ works ; Artists 6,000+ artists ; Audio Guides, podcasts, and other audio ; Videos Featuring art, artists, exhibitions, and programs ; Essays Essays and catalogue excerpts ; Conservation Preservation and care of collection works
Free and Discounted Admission | Whitney Museum of American Art
Admission to the Whitney is now free from 5–10 pm every Friday evening. Join us for free admission, music, and special programming. Though admission is free, tickets are required and capacity is limited. Advance tickets are recommended. Learn more and reserve tickets. Free Second Sundays Admission ...
About the Whitney | Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney is the only museum dedicated to American art and artists. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Museum in 1930, taking a bold stand for American artists who were often overlooked. Today, our collection features works by over 4,000 artists, including luminaries like Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexander Calder, and Faith Ringgold.
The Building | Whitney Museum of American Art
Designed by architect Renzo Piano, the Whitney's building in the Meatpacking District includes approximately 50,000 square feet of indoor galleries and 13,000 square feet of outdoor exhibition space and terraces facing the High Line.
Plan Your Visit | Whitney Museum of American Art
Book tickets online in advance or at the Museum. Members may use their membership cards for anytime admission. Corporate partners and other Museum affiliates may book complimentary tickets. The Whitney Museum of American Art is a must-see New York destination. As the preeminent institution devoted ...
Exhibitions | Whitney Museum of American Art
Exhibitions Current and upcoming ; Events calendar Upcoming events, tours, programs, and more ; artport Online portal for digital art commissions ; Performance Upcoming and past ; The Biennial The longest running survey of American art
Georgia O'Keeffe | Whitney Museum of American Art
Georgia O’Keeffe used her art to record emotional and sensory experiences, especially her responses to the rhythms and forms of the natural world. Raised on a dairy farm in rural Wisconsin, O’Keeffe attended the Art Students League and Teacher’s College at Columbia University in New York, where she trained to be an art teacher. She first came to the attention of the New York art world in ...
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective | Whitney Museum of American Art
Jun 27, 2014 · Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial artists of the postwar era. Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship of artists to the cult of celebrity and the global ...
Claes Oldenburg | Whitney Museum of American Art
Claes Oldenburg has famously written that he is “for an art that . . . twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.” In this commitment to imbue his art with the energy of “life itself,” Oldenburg has frequently turned to commonplace objects as his subject matter, transforming them through unexpected ...