Whitney Museum of American Art: Recent pages: Membership

Membership Benefits &Amp; Levels

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:19:58 -0400

Membership/Benefits

Unlimited express admission to the Museum’s galleries and film programs
Special discounts throughout the city with our new Uptown/Downtown Neighborhood Discount Program
10% discount at Untitled, the new restaurant by Danny Meyer at the Whitney
Free tickets to Whitney programs, including lectures and seminars with artists
Invitations to attend Morning Viewing Hours and Preview Days just for members
Private after-hours access to our exhibitions during Member Saturday Nights
10–20% discounts on purchases at the Museum store (including the online store), and special members-only shopping days throughout the year
Free admission to top modern and contemporary art museums around the world through our new Reciprocal Admission Program (for members at the Dual level and above)

Membership

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:18:40 -0400

Through the support and dedication of our members, the Whitney has supported the careers of living American artists, long before they have received history’s stamp of approval. When you become a member, you’ll continue to make American art matter, as well as enable the Whitney to continue making bold, forward-thinking choices in exhibiting the work of new artists.

Join The Whitney Contemporaries

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:32:30 -0400

Membership/WhitneyContemporaries

The Whitney Contemporaries is a dynamic group of art patrons between the ages of twenty-one and forty, committed to supporting the Whitney’s mission of championing emerging voices and artistic innovation. Contemporaries are guaranteed exclusive access to the Whitney’s unparalleled resources and the New York art scene.

Please take a moment to review the different opportunities for involvement with this exciting group!

Curate Your Own Biennial Membership

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:55:32 -0400

Membership/Benefits/2012Biennial

Custom design your membership! Enjoy core benefits, Biennial extras, and choose from 5 amazing series with exclusive member privileges for two people for two full years.

Uptown/Downtown Neighborhood Discount Program

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:17:33 -0500

Membership/NeighborhoodDiscounts

We’ve expanded the members-only Whitney Uptown/Downtown Neighborhood Discount Program to include both the Upper East Side and the Meatpacking District (site of the Whitney’s downtown building project), with tons of new top-notch NY restaurants and stores! These merchants are special partners and supporters of the Whitney, and are happy to extend these discounts to you in recognition of your generosity to the Museum. Simply flash your membership card or use the provided promo code to receive your members-only discounts.

Renew Your Whitney Membership Today

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:02:47 -0400

Membership/Groupon

Last year, you joined the Whitney as a member of our new Curate Your Own Membership (CYOM) program through Groupon. Your gift helped support the Museum at a truly groundbreaking time. Thank you!

Curate Your Own Membership offers personalized benefits, so that our members are able to enjoy more of what matters to them at the Whitney.

Your continued support is really important to all of us at the Whitney. We recognize that you purchased your membership at a significant discount when you joined through Groupon, so we want to offer you a deal on your second year of membership.To renew, simply select one of the special offers on the left.

We hope you’ll stay with us for another year of membership benefits.

Support The Annual Fund

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:18:01 -0400

Membership/AnnualFund

In addition to the generous support of our members, the Annual Fund is a critical financial resource for the Whitney. It supports a range of discretionary and programmatic needs, including exhibitions and related educational symposia; educational programs for families, students, and seniors; conservation projects to protect our permanent collection; and other various efforts. Your donation to the Annual Fund is essential to the vitality of the Museum!

You can also make a gift at any time by visiting us on online. And don’t forget, these gifts are 100% tax deductible! And your employer may have a Matching Gift Program, so be sure to check with your Human Resources department. It’s an easy way to make your gift go even further!

More To Explore

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:24:42 -0400

Membership/MoreToExplore

We hope you will enjoy this educational content just for members! Gain deeper insight into our exhibitions and learn more about American art at the Whitney. If you have questions or comments about these materials, send us an email at memberinfo@whitney.org.

Use these packets at home or in the galleries as you deepen your understanding of American art.

Create Your Whitney.Org Account

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:03:23 -0400

Membership/Signup

Questions/problems/feedback? Email info@whitney.org.

Reciprocal Admission Program

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:08:18 -0400

Membership/ReciprocalProgram

We know that you value new perspectives and innovative experiences with art. We’ve put together this reciprocal admission program so that you can enjoy incredible art at top modern and contemporary art museums around the world.

The Whitney’s Reciprocal Admission Program grants members at the Dual level and above free admission for two at the museums listed here. This program will expand over time, so please continue to visit this page for the most up-to-date list.

Member Appreciation Month

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:42:39 -0400

Membership/MemberAppreciationMonth

This May, as the Whitney prepares to break ground on its future building, we also celebrate your support with a month of special offers and extra benefits. It is because of the generosity of our members that we are able to mount daring exhibitions, conserve works in the collection, and present engaging educational programs with artists. On behalf of all of us at the Whitney, thank you for all you do!

Check back on this site closer to May for even more exciting member benefits and promotions.

Join, Renew, Or Give A Gift

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:36:34 -0400

Membership/Login

In order to purchase a membership, you’ll need to create an account. Your login will enable you to manage your membership online, update any changes in contact information, and create a custom calendar of upcoming events. Once logged in, you can also create a collection of your favorite works in the collection, exhibitions, and other pages of interest!

Renewing Your Membership

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:07:55 -0400

Membership/DiscountRenew

Memberships at certain levels are not eligible for online renewal because they require additional verification. If you are a member at the Artist, Student, Senior, Teacher or National/International level, please call (212) 570-3641 or email memberinfo@whitney.org to speak with someone about your renewal.

Already Renewed?

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:40:11 -0400

Membership/AlreadyRenewed

Thank you for your recent gift to the Whitney Museum!

Please accept our apologies if you saw this renewal reminder in error. It can take a few days for gifts to be received and processed, so your record should be updated shortly. If you sent in your gift more than a week ago or if you have other questions, you can contact our offices at (212) 570-3641 or email us at memberinfo@whitney.org.

Not Correct?

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:39:57 -0400

Membership/NotCorrect

Please accept our apologies if your membership level or expiration date are not displayed correctly on this website. If you recently renewed or changed your membership level, it can take a few days for changes to be processed, so your record should be updated shortly. If you still suspect our records are in error or if you have other questions, you can contact our offices at (212) 570-3641 or email us at memberinfo@whitney.org.

Green Membership

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:29:41 -0500

Membership/GreenMembership

We love being in touch with our members about upcoming events and art world happenings but we want to do so in the most environmentally friendly way possible.

Clickistan

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:13:49 -0500

Membership/AnnualFund/2010

For a limited time, you can support the Annual Fund by playing CLICKISTAN. Simply click on the link above to start playing. Once you’ve completed the many levels, you’ll arrive in the golden chamber where you’ll be asked to make a gift to the Whitney’s Annual Fund. This gift supports exciting initiatives and helps keep the Whitney strong. Gifts, at any amount, provide essential support to the Whitney.

We hope you’ll enjoy playing CLICKISTAN again and again!

The CLICKISTAN soundtrack is inspired by early computer games, and is supplied by the 8-bit music website micromusic.net.

2010 Annual Fund Project

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:47:39 -0500

Membership/AnnualFund/2010/Project

This summer, UBERMORGEN.COM, an artist duo composed of lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, were commissioned to create an interactive, engaging work designed to introduce a new worldwide audience to the importance of supporting the Whitney’s Annual Fund—and by extension, art in an increasingly global community.

The Whitney is pleased to announce that, for a limited time, you can support the Annual Fund by playing the games included in CLICKISTAN, a work of computer game art that references early net art and classic coin-operated arcade games such as Space Invaders (1978), Donkey Kong (1981) and Pac Man (1980). As you move through levels, you’ll score points in ways that aren’t immediately obvious. The retro feel of the games will inspire the inner gamer in many, and for those visitors who are knowledgeable about the history of net art, the visit will be even more rewarding.

You can also feel good about playing again and again, because any donations you make will support the Whitney’s Annual Fund. As with all contributions to the Annual Fund, these donations are fully tax deductible!

Gifts to the Annual Fund are purely philanthropic and are applied to general operating expenses at the Museum—from keeping the lights on to assembling groundbreaking exhibitions. Donations to the Annual Fund, in any amount, provide essential support to the Whitney.

2010 Annual Fund Project

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:46:21 -0500

Membership/AnnualFund/2010/FromTheCurator

CLICKISTAN by the artist team UBERMORGEN.COM (lizvlx and Hans Bernhard) is a work of game art and an homage to the net art of the mid-90s: it invents its own territory—ruled by the click—and celebrates the pixel in imaginative variations. UBERMORGEN.COM are the new masters of Minimalist pixel painting. Transparent pixels are blown out of proportion in order to create graphic shapes and abstractions, while copied-and-pasted scripts are resampled and recombined in order to—in UBERMORGEN.COM’s words—use as many pre-existing pixels and produce as few originals as possible. This latter strategy is a nod to early net art, in which recycling and reproduction of existing information were the artistic method of choice. Likewise, in the spirit of early net art—such as the Form Art Competition organized by Russian net art pioneer Alexei Shulgin in 1997—CLICKISTAN plays with the formal elements of the Web, enticing its players to click away on canvases of radio buttons and flying scroll bars. Players also encounter elements of net culture, such as a reference to the famous 2000-2002 Internet meme “All your base are belong to us,” a broken-English phrase originating from the opening scene of the video game Zero Wing, poorly translated from Japanese. CLICKISTAN’s visual style and playful typography—such as the mixing of upper and lower case—allude to the “dirt style” design of net art before the dot com gold rush—the degraded aesthetic of the hobbyist, amateur, and geek. The work’s title references both early net art’s exploration of the Web territory—in its resistance to traditional notions of ownership, authority, and the nation state—and the arrival of the click as the main paradigm of interaction, overruling previously established norms of dragging and dropping.

CLICKISTAN is also indebted to early computer games, particularly the coin-operated arcade games of the late 1970s and early 1980s, such as Space Invaders (1978), Pac-Man (1980), and Donkey Kong (1981), whose pixellated characters were created with great economy of means. The new musical form inspired by early computer games—known as 8-bit or chiptune music and consisting of sound textures synthesized by the computer or video game console’s sound chip—is referenced in CLICKISTAN’s soundtrack supplied by the 8-bit music website micromusic.net.

As with other game art projects, CLICKISTAN does not simply create an environment for play that follows established conventions, but instead engages, questions, and undermines them. UBERMORGEN.COM takes a decisively “userunfriendly” approach to many gaming routines: players’ actions do not yield the expected results; some choices are impossible to make, some actions redundant, but, as in “real life,” they all lead to the next level or sometimes even have the same consequences; scores do not necessarily relate to the performed actions in any rational way. Players become aware of their expectations and are challenged to ask who or what created them in the first place.

UBERMORGEN.COM’s mode of operation has always been playfully subversive, and many of their projects have addressed the intersections of Internet culture, money, and branding. Their Ekmrz Trilogy (2005-2009) took critical approaches to Google and Amazon. Their Generator series included tools such as the Injunction Generator (2001), which allowed users to automatically generate a standard court order—in .pdf or .rtf format—claiming that a website of their choice was operating on an illegal basis. CLICKISTAN’s use of visuals, text, and language reflects the overall tone of Ubermorgen’s work, referencing their website’s home pages (from 2000-2005) as well as the generators. CLICKISTAN is a territory that lies somewhere at the core of Ubermorgen’s work: a game that plays with art and commerce, celebrates the early days of net art and computer games, has an anarchic sense of humor, and only delivers the expected when it is time to pay.

2010 Annual Fund Project

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:25:54 -0500

Membership/AnnualFund/2010/Artists

UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities – controversial and iconoclastic – of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant-garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixel painting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. The computer and the network are (ab)used to create art and combine its multiple forms. the permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one’s working materials that for UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). “Ubermorgen” is the German word both for “the day after tomorrow” and “super-tomorrow”.

lizvlx (A/CH, *1973)
UBERMORGEN.COM

lizvlx is an austrian net.artist working in the fields of digital imagery, media actionism and programming. She studied both commercial sciences as well as fine arts in Vienna and now works out of St. Moritz and Vienna. Using technology, computers, and sculpture as media since 1994, she has exhibited her net.art works in venues like the Ars Electronica (Austria), the Konsthall Malmoe (Sweden), the NTT ICC Museum (Japan), ARCO (Spain) or the Lentos Kunstmuseum (Austria). lizvlx was also a founding member of 194.152.164.137 and of netznetz.net. lizvlx is allergic to milk protein and enjoys changing hair colors.

Hans Bernhard (USA/CH/A, *1973)
UBERMORGEN.COM

Hans Bernhard is a swiss-american writer, actionist and digital artist working in the field of media hacking, txt-modification, conceptual art and net.art. Living and working in Vienna and St. Moritz. Since the mid-1990’s, he has been a frequent speaker at conferences and universities worldwide, and has exhibited his work in venues such as Laboral Gijon (Spain), SFMOMA (USA), ZKM (Germany), New Museum New York (USA), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan), MOCA Taipei (Taiwan) or Mumok Vienna (Austria). Hans Bernhard is a co-founder of etoy (www.etoy.com). He studied visual communication, digital art, and aesthetics in Vienna (Weibel), San Diego (Manovich), Pasadena (Lunenfeld), and Wuppertal (Brock). Hans Bernhard weighs 130 Kgs (290 pounds), is keen on attention and gets a new haircut in every city he travels to.

Curate Your Own Membership: Purchase As A Gift

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:33:22 -0400

Membership/CYOM/Gift

Your gift recipient will be able to custom design a membership, choosing from 5 amazing series with exclusive member privileges only available at the Whitney. We will mail you a gift package to present to your recipient, so that they can activate their new membership right away!

Curate Your Own Membership

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:32:29 -0400

Membership/CYOM

For the first time, the Whitney is teaming up with a new membership curator—you!
You are invited to custom design your membership, choosing from 5 amazing series with exclusive member privileges only available at the Whitney. Customize your experience and maximize your benefits with our all-new Curate Your Own Membership program.

Membership Benefits &Amp; Levels

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:29:48 -0400

Membership/Benefits/Guggenheim

Express gratis admission to the Museum’s galleries and film programs via the members-only line
Special discounts throughout the city with our newly expanded Uptown/Downtown Neighborhood Discount Program
Free tickets to Whitney programs, including lectures, seminars with artists, and family programs
Invitations to attend morning viewing hours and preview days just for members
Private access to our exhibitions when the Museum is closed on Member Saturday Nights
10–20% discounts on purchases at the Museum store (including the online store), and special members-only shopping days throughout the year
Members-only E-newsletter with advance notice of events
Members calendar of events, exhibitions, and programs
Free admission to top modern and contemporary art museums around the world through our newly launched Reciprocal Admission Program (for members at the Dual level and above)

Biennial Membership

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:05:49 -0400

Membership/Benefits/2010Biennial

The Biennial happens every two years, and it’s a moment of celebration of the history of the Museum—of the reason why the Museum exists, of the nature of the Museum.
—Francesco Bonami,
curator, 2010

100% Whitney, 20% Off

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:10:53 -0500

Membership/Benefits/20

See exhibitions first, including the 2010 Whitney Biennial (opens February 25, 2010)
Skip the lines with free express admission
View the collection after hours on Member Saturday Nights
Shop the best retailers with the expanded Uptown/Downtown Neighborhood Discount Program
Support American art