Slide Talks

These interactive slide-based lectures at senior centers and homes offer participants a special preview of upcoming exhibitions and a comprehensive learning experience around an array of Whitney-related topics, while also providing the opportunity to reach seniors unable to travel to the Museum. For each Slide Talk, a Whitney educator provides an illustrated thematic overview of selected works of art, placing the works in their art historical context, and engaging seniors in a dialogue about the lecture topic.

Request a Slide Talk

Participation in these programs is limited to our community partners

Read More

Possible Topics

Charles Burchfield and Robert Gober

Charles Burchfield, An April Mood, 1946–55  55.39

Charles Burchfield, An April Mood, 1946–55 55.39

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930  31.426

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930 31.426 On view in the museum

On view in the museum

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe, Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918  91.90

Georgia O’Keeffe, Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918 91.90

All Roads Lead to New York

Willem de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle, 1952–53 55.35

Nam June Paik, Magnet TV, 1965 86.60a-b

Eva Hesse, No title, 1970 88.17a-b

Gabriel Orozco, Parachute in Iceland (South), 1996 97.36

Arshile Gorky, The Artist and His Mother, c. 1926–36 50.17

Shahzia Sikander, Reinventing the Dislocation, 1997 97.83.4

Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: “Ascending”, 1953 54.34

Oscar Bluemner, Last Evening of the Year, c. 1929 31.115

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (America), 1994–95 (installation view, The American Century: Art and Culture 1900–2000, Part II, 1950–2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999–2000) 96.74.1a-l

Shirin Neshat, still from Rapture, 1999 99.86

A survey of émigré artists in the collection and their experiences in 20th-century New York.

Modernisms

Ellsworth Kelly, La Combe I, 1950 2002.249

Jay DeFeo, The Rose, 1958–66 95.170

Alexander Calder, Varèse, c. 1930 80.25

Marsden Hartley, Madawaska, Acadian Light-Heavy, Third Arrangement, 1940 2005.89

Jacob Lawrence, War Series: Another Patrol, 1946 51.8

Agnes Martin, Milk River, 1963 64.10

Isamu Noguchi, Work Sheets for Sculpture, 1945 74.46

Lee Krasner, White Squares, c. 1948 75.1

Andy Warhol, Nine Jackies, 1964 2002.273

Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1961, 1961 61.41

Explores the history of 20th- and 21st-century American art through key works in the Whitney’s permanent collection.

whitney women

Georgia O’Keeffe, Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918 91.90

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Thinking of You), 1999–2000 2000.217

Lorna Simpson, 2 Tracks, 1990 91.59.4a-e

Lynda Benglis, Contraband, 1969 2008.14

Louise Bourgeois, Spider Woman, 2005 2006.76

Cindy Sherman, Untitled, 2008 2009.46

Joan Jonas, still from Vertical Roll, 1972 2000.189

Adrian Piper, Out of the Corner, 1990 (installation view, Full House, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2006) 94.38

Catherine Opie, Self-Portrait, 1993 94.64

Margaret Bourke-White, Dam at Fort Peck, Montana, 1936 92.55

An in-depth look at the work of women artists in the Whitney’s permanent collection.