A colorful, symmetrical composition centers on a large face with wide, watchful eyes, surrounded by intricate patterns, vivid shapes, and smaller angelic figures. A crown-like form rises above the face, while layered designs in green, yellow, blue, red, and gold fill nearly every part of the image, creating a dense, dreamlike scene.

The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
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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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  • Six candid portraits show people smoking, talking, embracing, and resting in intimate indoor settings.
    Six candid portraits show people smoking, talking, embracing, and resting in intimate indoor settings.

    Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1979–1996. Slide installation with 690 35mm color slides, sound, 45 min. looped, dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Charles Engelhard Foundation, the Mrs. Percy Uris Bequest, the Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Photography Committee 92.127. © Nan Goldin

  • Crowded nighttime street with brass musicians playing while people dance, walk, and watch from porches.
    Crowded nighttime street with brass musicians playing while people dance, walk, and watch from porches.

    Archibald John Motley, Jr., Gettin' Religion, 1948. Oil on linen, overall: 32 × 39 7/16 in. (81.3 × 100.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest, by exchange 2016.15. © Valerie Gerrard Browne

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A naked Black man balances on one leg while looking out into the glistening light from a window in a dilapidated room
    A naked Black man balances on one leg while looking out into the glistening light from a window in a dilapidated room

    Alvin Baltrop, Untitled, 1977. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 9 × 6 7/8 in. (22.9 × 17.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2009.31. Photographs used courtesy of The Alvin Baltrop Trust, © 2010, The Alvin Baltrop Trust and Galerie Buchholz. All rights reserved.

On the Hour

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

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