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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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Family Programs

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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Video

Watch our latest video series to dive deeper into art at the Whitney.

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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 red hanging mobile with multiple leaf-shaped pieces balanced on thin wires.
    A red hanging mobile with multiple leaf-shaped pieces balanced on thin wires.

    Alexander Calder, Big Red, 1959. Painted sheet metal and steel wire, dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and by exchange 61.46a-c. © Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  • Four standing and shirtless Black men facing and signing at the photographer against a black background. One man's face is blurred.
    Four standing and shirtless Black men facing and signing at the photographer against a black background. One man's face is blurred.

    Deana Lawson, Signs, 2016. Inkjet print, sheet (sight): 53 1/4 × 42 3/8 in. (135.3 × 107.6 cm) Image (sight): 53 1/4 × 42 3/8 in. (135.3 × 107.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee and the Henry Nias Foundation 2018.94. © Deana Lawson

  • New York skyline with the Statue of Liberty pedestal labeled LIBERTY and a nearby warship flying an American flag.
    New York skyline with the Statue of Liberty pedestal labeled LIBERTY and a nearby warship flying an American flag.

    Florine Stettheimer, New York/Liberty, 1918–1919. Oil on canvas, overall (framed): 70 1/2 × 44 1/2 × 2 in. (179.1 × 113 × 5.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Bequest of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his father, Kenneth F. Simpson, member of the 76th Congress from New York City, and his mother, Helen-Louise Knickerbacker Porter Simpson 2017.190a-b

  • A geometric industrial building with two large silos, a tall smokestack, and crisscrossing power lines.
    A geometric industrial building with two large silos, a tall smokestack, and crisscrossing power lines.

    Charles Demuth, My Egypt, 1927. Oil, fabricated chalk, and graphite pencil on composition board, overall: 35 15/16 × 30 in. (91.3 × 76.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.172

  • A painted wooden sculpture of a man and woman reaching hands as if dancing on a pedestal.
    A painted wooden sculpture of a man and woman reaching hands as if dancing on a pedestal.

    Elie Nadelman, Tango, c. 1920–1924. Painted and gessoed cherry wood, overall: 36 × 25 5/8 × 13 7/8 in. (91.4 × 65.1 × 35.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul Purchase Fund, the Joan and Lester Avnet Purchase Fund, the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Purchase Fund, the Mrs. Robert C. Graham Purchase Fund in honor of John I.H. Baur, the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund and the Henry Schnakenberg Purchase Fund in honor of Juliana Force 88.1a-c. © Estate of Elie Nedelman

  • Hand-scribbled colorful letters read "Crossing all the borders" in green, blue, and red.
    Hand-scribbled colorful letters read "Crossing all the borders" in green, blue, and red.

    Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Crossing All the Borders, 1987. Pastel on paper, sheet: 22 × 29 7/8 in. (55.9 × 75.9 cm) Image: 22 × 29 7/8 in. (55.9 × 75.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee 2018.137.10. © Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds

On the Hour

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

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