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press release archive

2013

The Whitney Presents Large-Scale Installation by Robert Irwin
Stewart Uoo and Jana Euler: Outside Inside Sensibility
The Jugglers, July 24th 2012
I, YOU, WE
Hopper Drawing
Three Museums Receive Gift of Steichen Photographs from Richard and Jackie Hollander
Blues for Smoke

2012

The Whitney Celebrates the Topping Out of its Future Home
Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective
New Role for Scott Rothkopf at the Whitney
American Legends
Whitney Museum Names Curators for 2014 Biennial
Emergency Cheesecake
Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV and the Movies
Plymouth Rock 2
Whitney Announces Grant from the Keith Haring Foundation
Eighth Annual Annenberg Lecture: Sarah Sze in Conversation with Adam D. Weinberg
High Line Art and Whitney Museum Present Richard Artschwager’s blps
Sinister Pop
Richard Artschwager!
Wade Guyton OS
Jay Sanders Named Whitney Curator
Oskar Fischinger: Space Light Art – A Film Environment
Yayoi Kusama
Signs & Symbols
Sharon Hayes: There’s so much I want to say to you
ISP Presents Creative Destruction
Sarah Michelson Receives 2012 Bucksbaum Award
Whitney Receives Grant from Henry Luce Foundation
Whitney Builds Education Studio Designed by LOT-EK
Extraordinary Gift from Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
2012 Whitney Biennial
The Whitney and Storm King Art Center Receive Major Work by David Smith

2011

Artists Announced for Whitney Biennial 2012
For Kids Web Pages Launched
Sherrie Levine MAYHEM
Artist Documentation Program, Online Archive, Launches
Aleksandra Mir’s The Seduction of Galileo Galilei
The Whitney Announces Team for Second Volume Devoted to Warhol’s Films
Three Landscapes: A Film Installation by Roy Lichtenstein
David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy
Real/Surreal
Whitney to Present Streb Performances Downtown
Xavier Cha’s Body Drama
Mayor Bloomberg Joins Whitney Museum for Downtown Groundbreaking
Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Announce Collaborative Agreement
ISP Presents Foreclosed: Between Crisis and Possibility
Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World
Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools
More Than That: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson
The Whitney Announces Multi-Year Series of Collection Exhibitions
Dianna Molzan’s First Solo Museum Show
USHG Announces Forthcoming Whitney Cafe: Untitled
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection

2010

Staff Promotions Lead to New Management Structure
Singular Visions, An Experimental New Installation
Whitney Museum Names Curators for 2012 Biennial
Sixth Annual Annenberg Lecture: Susan Rothenberg in Conversation with Adam D. Weinberg
Charles LeDray: workworkworkworkwork
Curate Your Own Membership
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time
Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective
John Jonas Gruen Exhibition Extended
Rockwell Group to Design New Cafe
Off the Wall
Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions
Part 2: Seven Works by Trisha Brown
Whitney To Break Ground on New Downtown Building in 2011
Emily Fisher Landau Gives Major Gift to the Whitney
Christian Marclay: Festival
2010 Bucksbaum Award-Winner Announced
Whitney on Site: New Commissions Downtown
Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
Union Square Hospitality Group and the Whitney present Sandwiched: New “Pop-Up” Cafe
Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group to Serve as Exclusive Caterer and Operate New Cafe

2009

Artists Announced for Whitney Biennial, 2010
The Whitney Announces Two Curatorial Appointments
Omer Fast: Nostalgia
Whitney.org Redesign and Relaunch
Fifth Annual Annenberg Lecture: Bill Viola in Conversation with Adam D. Weinberg
Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer
A Few Frames: Photography and the Contact Sheet
Roni Horn aka Roni Horn
Special Exhibition Exploring Lucinda Childs’s Legendary Dance
The Feelies to Kick Off a Series of Indie-Rock Concerts and Special Events as Part of Dan Graham Retrospective
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films and Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room
Sadie Benning’s Play Pause
Dan Graham: Beyond
Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT
Sites
Elad Lassry: Three Films

2008

Artists Making Photographs
2009 Composers’ Showcase Features Meredith Monk Performance Marathon
Whitney Museum Names Curators for 2010 Biennial
New Video Installation by Alex Bag
Synthetic
Fourth Annual Annenberg Lecture: John Baldessari in Conversation with Adam Weinberg
Whitney Museum Announces Appointment of New Education Director
Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage
William Eggleston Retrospective
“Progress” —A Selection of Works from Museum’s Permanent Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art Appoints John S. Stanley as Deputy Director
Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933
Whitney Museum Announces New Officers for Board of Trustees
2008 Whitney Biennial Now in Final Weeks
Whitney Independent Study Program Presents For Reasons of State at The Kitchen
Whitney Unveils Design by Renzo Piano for New Downtown Building
Johanna Burton Named Associate Director and Senior Faculty Member of ISP
Omer Fast to Receive 2008 Bucksbaum Award
Wordless at Whitney Live
Whitney Museum Launches Whitney Focus Video Series
Landmark Exhibition on Buckminster Fuller to Open in June
Polaroids: Mapplethorpe
Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement—Three Installations, Two Films
Whitney Museum Announces Largest Gift in Its History—$131 Million from The American Contemporary Art Foundation
Artists Selected for 2008 Whitney Biennial
Clifford Chance and Whitney Museum Partner for Whitney After Hours
Reinstallation of the Whitney’s Collection
Whitney Branch at Altria to Close
Kara Walker Survey to Close
Iconic Demuth Paintings of Lancaster to Go on View in February

2007

Lawrence Weiner: Complete Films and Videos to Be Presented at Anthology Film Archives
Television Delivers People
Beth Campbell: Following Room
Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series: Selections from The Phillips Collection Moves from Studio Museum to Whitney
Kara Walker’s First American Museum Survey to Open
Whitney at Altria to Open Undone
Whitney Museum Launches Learning@Whitney
Whitney Announces Fall 2007 Performance Series
First Major U.S. Retrospective of the Work of Lawrence Weiner
Neither New Nor Correct: New Work by Mark Bradford
Whitney Announces July 2007 Performance Series, In Conjunction with the Exhibition Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era
Resistance Is . . .
Rudolf Stingel
Whitney Announces Appointment of Two New Senior Staff Members
The Price of Everything . . . Perspectives on the Art Market Presented by Whitney Independent Study Program
Grab It! The Music of Jacobtv (Jacob Ter Veldhuis)
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era
A Tribute to Lincoln Kirstein
Whitney at Altria to Present Matthew Brannon: Where Were We
Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure
Lights, Camera, Action: Artists’ Films for the Cinema
New Work by Terence Koh

2006

Whitney Signs Letter of Intent with City to Aquire High Line Site at Gansevoort and Washington Streets and to Build a Second Museum Facility
Kiki Smith Retrospective Traverses Artist’s 25-Year Career
Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World
Edward Hopper Extended
Whitney to Present New Work by Mark Grotjahn
Picasso and American Art
Whitney at Altria to Open Trace
Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75
A Full Floor of Edward Hopper’s Works Opens as Part of Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75
Succor: A Festival of Live Performance
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night
Definitive Book on Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, Underway for 15 Years, Provides Unique Portrait of Warhol’s World

2005

Skin Is a Language, An Exhibition of Sculpture, Drawing, Photography, and Prints from the Collection
Whitney at Altria to Open Andrea Zittel: Small Liberties
Whitney in Association with Harvard University Art Museums to Present Ed Ruscha’s Course of Empire
Whitney Museum and Antenna Audio to Launch Follow Through, A Mobile Media Project
Public Art Fund and Whitney Announce Collaboration for the 2006 Whitney Biennial
Morgan Fisher Retrospective
An American Modernist Rediscovered — Whitney Presents Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color
Whitney at Altria to Open Rob Fischer
Building and Breaking the Grid, 1962-2002
New Work by Raymond Pettibon

2004

Whitney Museum Appoints Carter Foster Curator of Drawings
Whitney Museum Announces Three New Curatorial Appointments
Raymond Pettibon Receives 2004 Bucksbaum Award
Strange Pilgrims: A Festival of Live Performance
Architecture by Numbers at the Whitney at Altria
Lot-Ek: Mobile Dwelling Unit
Retrospective of Ed Ruscha’s Drawings
Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance
Ed Ruscha and Photography

2003

Whitney Announces Major Acquisition of Ed Ruscha Photographs
Bucksbaum Award-Winner Irit Batsry’s Latest Work Is Part of The Contemporary Series
Related Events Expand Dimensions of 2004 Biennial
Expanded Line-Up of Performances for Whitney’s Friday-Evening Soundcheck Series During 2004 Biennial
Inside-Out: Portrait Photographs
2004 Whitney Biennial
Luis Gispert: Urban Myths Part II (Return of the Hypenaholics)

Press releases are listed in reverse chronological order, by date of release, and are available in PDF format. Downloading press releases requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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