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Free Days
Free Friday Nights and Second Sundays
Admission to the Whitney is free from 5–10 pm every Friday evening and on the second Sunday of every month. Join us for free access to exhibitions, special programming, views, and more. Though admission is free, tickets are required.
Dive Into Our Collection
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Eva Hesse
No title
1970 -
Ed Clark
Winter Bitch
1959
On view, Floor 7 -
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Hollywood Africans
1983 -
Kwame Brathwaite
Untitled (Photo shoot at a school for one of the many modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s)
c.1966, printed 2018 -
Mary Ellen Bute
Synchromy No. 4: Escape
1937–1938
On view, Floor 7 -
Clarissa Tossin
Ch'u Mayaa
2017
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Podcasts
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