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Every Friday evening from 5–10 pm and on the second Sunday of every month, admission to the Museum is free. Both offerings include free access to exhibitions, special programming, city views, and more. Visitors 25 and under are always free, every day. 

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Gap–Lichtenstein–Whitney

Our collaboration with Gap and the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein brings the artist’s bold visual language to an 18-piece collection of clothing and accessories. Bold patterns on sherpa. Graphic prints on tees. This is art—worn by you.

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Whitney family programs offer artmaking workshops, special events and tours, in-gallery activity guides, and at-home artmaking challenges. Join us for upcoming family events or Free Second Sundays.

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artport

Check out art that's created specifically for the web on artport—the Whitney's gallery space for commissions of net art.


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  • A background of blue obscured almost completely by bright red streaks running up and down the canvas.
    A background of blue obscured almost completely by bright red streaks running up and down the canvas.

    Alma Thomas, Mars Dust, 1972. Acrylic on canvas, overall: 69 1/4 × 57 1/8 in. (175.9 × 145.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Hament Corporation 72.58. © Estate of Alma Thomas (Courtesy of the Hart Family)/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  • In a room extending across a diptych, a pensive Black woman sits at a table surrounded by pattered surfaces.
    In a room extending across a diptych, a pensive Black woman sits at a table surrounded by pattered surfaces.

    Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Portals, 2016. Acrylic, solvent transfer, collage of fabric and paper, and colored pencil on paper, overall: 83 5/8 × 206 in. (212.4 × 523.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation 2016.93a-b. © Njideka Akunyili Crosby

  • Broad swaths of black, navy, gray, orange, and pink soar across a white canvas.
    Broad swaths of black, navy, gray, orange, and pink soar across a white canvas.

    Ed Clark, Winter Bitch, 1959. Acrylic, oil, and pastel on canvas, overall: 77 × 77 in. (195.6 × 195.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee and partial gift of the artist 2019.307. © Ed Clark

  • Two juxtaposed profile views of the same woman, one with a large nose and one with a small nose
    Two juxtaposed profile views of the same woman, one with a large nose and one with a small nose

    Andy Warhol, Before and After, 4, 1962. Acrylic and graphite pencil on linen, overall: 72 1/8 × 99 3/4 in. (183.2 × 253.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Charles Simon 71.226. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  • Dark smoke stacks towering against a gray sky
    Dark smoke stacks towering against a gray sky

    Elsie Driggs, Pittsburgh, 1927. Oil on canvas, overall: 34 1/4 × 40 1/4 in. (87 × 102.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.177. © Estate of Elsie Driggs

  • A man in a leather jacket focuses as he lights a cigarette on a dimly lit street.
    A man in a leather jacket focuses as he lights a cigarette on a dimly lit street.

    Peter Hujar, David Lighting Up, 1985. Gelatin silver print, sheet (sight): 14 13/16 × 14 7/8 in. (37.6 × 37.8 cm) Image (sight): 14 5/8 × 14 3/4 in. (37.1 × 37.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.284. © The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Frank WANG Yefeng, The Levitating Perils #2

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