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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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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 Internet and new-media art.


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  • Seven young women stand confidently on concrete arches in a fenced urban schoolyard.
    Seven young women stand confidently on concrete arches in a fenced urban schoolyard.

    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. Inkjet print, sheet (sight): 29 5/8 × 29 5/8 in. (75.2 × 75.2 cm) Image (sight): 29 5/8 × 29 5/8 in. (75.2 × 75.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Brian Silver 2018.136. © Kwame Brathwaite

  • A hand uses pliers to cut barbed wire in front of a tall watchtower.
    A hand uses pliers to cut barbed wire in front of a tall watchtower.

    Toyo Miyatake, Untitled (Opening Image from Valediction), 1944. Gelatin silver print mounted on board, sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 5/16 in. (24 × 18.6 cm) Image: 9 3/8 × 7 1/4 in. (23.8 × 18.4 cm) Mount: 17 × 13 15/16 × 1/16 in. (43.2 × 35.4 × 0.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2014.243. © Toyo Miyatake Studio

  • A small teddy bear stands on a wooden floor looking at its reflections in two mirrors.
    A small teddy bear stands on a wooden floor looking at its reflections in two mirrors.

    Juan Antonio Olivares, Moléculas, 2017. Video, color, sound, 10 min., aspect Ratio: 16:9. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Film, Video, and New Media Committee 2017.185. © Juan Antonio Olivares, courtesy Off Vendome, 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

  • 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

  • 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

On the Hour

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

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