Whitney Museum of American Art: Events: Member Events, Contemporaries Events

Learning Series Lectures in Contemporary Art: The Psychology of Space—From Hopper to Irwin

Whitney Museum of American Art

Wed, Aug 14, 2013 7–8:30 PM
Open to: Learning Series Members in the Curate Your Own Program
Categories: Member Events, CYOM Learning

This two-part lecture series explores how artists have engaged and manipulated space and imbued it with psychological significance. The exhibitions Hopper Drawing and Robert Irwin: Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977) serve as anchoring touchpoints. The simple treatment of space is a hallmark in the work of both artists. Edward Hopper builds his paintings out of almost architectonic forms, often eliminating detail in favor of expansive, planar geometries; the result is an awareness of the strangeness hidden in quotidian, everyday spaces. Irwin relies on an economy of material to transform spaces that might initially look rather empty, rendering them charged and paradoxically full.

Using gallery talks as well as classroom presentations and discussion, the course will explore the psychology of space in the work of artists using seemingly traditional media, as well as those whose mode is characteristic of the so-called post-studio moment. This course is taught by Joan Tisch Whitney Teaching Fellow Paula Burleigh.

Learning Series members are invited to select one two-part course:

Option 1: July 13 and 20, 11:30 am–1 pm
Option 2: August 7 and 14, 7–8:30 pm

Electronic invitations will be sent to Learning Series members. Registration is required. For more information about our Curate Your Own Membership program, or if you would like to upgrade your membership, please call (212) 570-3641.

Learning Series Lectures in Contemporary Art: The Psychology of Space—From Hopper to Irwin

Whitney Museum of American Art

Wed, Aug 7, 2013 7–8:30 PM
Open to: Learning Series Members in the Curate Your Own Program
Categories: Member Events, CYOM Learning

Learning Series members are invited to select one two-part course:

Option 1: July 13 and 20, 11:30 am–1 pm
Option 2: August 7 and 14, 7–8:30 pm

Curatorial Laboratory: Perspectives on the Whitney's Collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

Thurs, July 25, 2013 7–9 PM
Open to: Patron, Contemporaries Patron, Circle, Fellow, and Sponsor members
Categories: Member Events, Patron , Circle, Fellow , Sponsor , Contemporaries Patron/Exec, Whitney Contemporaries , Contemporaries Events

This summer the Whitney presents the final installment of a multiyear exhibition series reassessing the collection in preparation for the Museum’s move downtown. Join curatorial staff members Laura Phipps and Nicholas Robbins for a discussion of the themes of the series.

Open to Patron, Contemporaries Patron, Circle, Fellow, and Sponsor-level members. To upgrade your membership or to become a member, please call (212) 570-3641.

Learning Series Lectures in Contemporary Art: The Psychology of Space—From Hopper to Irwin

Whitney Museum of American Art

Sat, July 20, 2013 11:30 AM–1 PM
Open to: Learning Series Members in the Curate Your Own Program
Categories: Member Events, CYOM Learning

Learning Series members are invited to select one two-part course:

Option 1: July 13 and 20, 11:30 am–1 pm
Option 2: August 7 and 14, 7–8:30 pm

Member Saturday Night

Whitney Museum of American Art

Sat, July 13, 2013 6:30–8:30 PM
Open to: All members
Categories: Member Events, Contemporaries Events, Core Benefits

The Whitney is open late—just for members! Enjoy live music and grab a quick drink at the cash bar. Explore the summer exhibitions on your own or hop on a tour of Hopper Drawing or I, YOU, WE at 7 and 7:45 pm.

This event is open to all members, plus one guest. For more information about our Member Saturday Nights, or if you have questions about other members-only events, please do not hesitate to call us at (212) 570-3641.

Learning Series Lectures in Contemporary Art: The Psychology of Space—From Hopper to Irwin

Whitney Museum of American Art

Sat, July 13, 2013 11:30 AM–1 PM
Open to: Learning Series Members in the Curate Your Own Program
Categories: Member Events, CYOM Learning

Learning Series members are invited to select one two-part course:

Option 1: July 13 and 20, 11:30 am–1 pm
Option 2: August 7 and 14, 7–8:30 pm

Whitney Contemporaries Travel: The Hamptons, East Hampton, and Bridgehampton

Whitney Museum of American Art

Sat, July 13–Sun, July 14, 2013
Location to be provided upon RSVP
Open to: All Whitney Contemporaries
Categories: Contemporaries Events, Whitney Contemporaries , Contemporaries Patron/Exec, Member Events

Join fellow Whitney Contemporaries members in the Hamptons this summer as we visit the DeKooning house (Saturday) and the Art Hamptons fair (Sunday) with young art collectors from around the area.

On Saturday July 13, visit the home that the de Koonings purchased at 55 Alewive Brook Road in 1975. Elaine de Kooning finished the studio three years later and created her last important bodies of work: Cave Walls and Cave Paintings (1985-88). After her death, the sculptor John Chamberlain owned the house and studio, followed by the painter Richmond Burton. This summer, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe will be in residence.

On Sunday the 14th, you’re invited to explore Art Hamptons and a special polo demonstration from the Southampton Hunt & Polo Club. Afterward, you’re invited to a private cocktail reception at the fair.

Open to all Contemporaries. RSVP to both events required. To join the Contemporaries and attend this event, call (212) 570-7746.

Opening Reception for Summer Exhibitions

Whitney Museum of American Art

Wed, June 26, 2013 7–9 PM
Open to: Social Series members in the Curate Your Own program, Friend, Patron, Circle, Fellow, Sponsor, and Contemporaries members
Categories: Member Events, Contemporaries Events, Friend, Patron , Circle, Whitney Contemporaries , Contemporaries Patron/Exec, Sponsor , Fellow , CYOM Social

Celebrate the Whitney’s summer exhibitions, Hopper Drawing and Robert Irwin: Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977), with friends, artists, and fellow members!

To upgrade your membership for this event or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call us at (212) 570-3641.

Member Preview Day: _Robert Irwin: Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977)_

Whitney Museum of American Art

Wed, June 26, 2013 12–6 PM
Open to: All members
Categories: Member Events, Contemporaries Events, Core Benefits

Members enjoy exclusive access to this large-scale installation, made in 1977 specifically for the Museum’s fourth floor. Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York uniquely engages the Whitney’s iconic Breuer building and the natural light that emanates from the large window in the fourth floor gallery space.

This event is open to all members, plus one guest. For more information about our Preview Day, or if you have questions about other members-only events, please call us at (212) 570-3641.

Whitney of the Future: Construction Update

Whitney Museum of American Art

A Special Presentation About the Whitney’s New Building Project
Tues, June 4, 2013 7–8:30 PM
Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue
Open to: All members
Categories: Member Events, Contemporaries Events, Core Benefits

Hear about the latest construction milestones and learn more about the new building’s special features from the project managers.

May 7, 7–8:30 pm
June 4, 7–8:30 pm

Open to all members. For more information about this event, or if you have questions about becoming a member, please call us at (212) 570-3641.

Member Saturday Night

Whitney Museum of American Art

Sat, June 1, 2013 6:30–8:30 PM
Open to: All members
Categories: Member Events, Contemporaries Events, Core Benefits

The Whitney is open late—just for members! Enjoy live music, grab a quick drink at the cash bar, and then explore the exhibitions, all without the daytime crowds. Tours of Hopper Drawing and Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective will begin at 7 and 7:45 pm.

Also during Member Saturday Night, members can enjoy a special opportunity to hear from Cynthia Carr, who will read from her book Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (Bloomsbury, 2012). Works by Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) are on view this summer as part of I, YOU, WE.

To register for the Cynthia Carr reading, please email memberinfo@whitney.org.

Insider Focus: Georgia O'Keeffe and Jay DeFeo

Whitney Museum of American Art

Sat, June 1, 2013 5:30–6:30 PM
Open to: Insider Series members in the Curate Your Own Program
Categories: Member Events, CYOM Insider

Join curatorial researcher Sasha Nicolas and Whitney Teaching Fellow Jennie Goldstein for this illuminating comparison of two innovative and iconic artists, on view in American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe and Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective.

Jay DeFeo (1929–1989) once compared her own artistic responses to natural forms to the work of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986). Looking at the careers of these artists side by side raises provocative questions: How do artists develop abstract idioms that are uniquely their own? How have ideas about femininity and the female body influenced interpretations of art produced by woman artists? How can contemporary scholarship enrich our understanding of artists who worked during the early and mid-twentieth century? Join us as we explore these illuminating questions.

Choose one of the following sessions:
May 15, 7–8 pm
June 1, 5:30–6:30 pm

RSVP required. Invitations will be sent to Insider Series members. To upgrade, please call (212) 570-3641.

Material Art: Conserving Jay DeFeo

Whitney Museum of American Art

Tues, May 28, 2013 7–9 PM
Open to: Patron, Circle, Fellow, and Sponsor-level members
Categories: Member Events, Sponsor , Fellow , Circle, Patron

Jay DeFeo (1929–1989) described her artistic process as “an exploration, an experimentation and a sheer love of material.” Her works combine a sophisticated mastery of media with sensuous delight in their physical properties and expressive potential. Join Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, the Whitney’s Associate Director for Conservation and Research, for an illuminating discussion on DeFeo’s methods of manipulating materials from oil and acrylic to gesso and particulate matter.

Open to Whitney Patron, Circle, Fellow, and Sponsor members. RSVP required. To upgrade your membership, please call (212) 570-3641.