Courses

Expand your perspectives through innovative courses offered every fall, winter, and spring. 

Please email us with any questions: courses@whitney.org.

Inside the Whitney Biennial 2019

Select Wednesdays and Thursdays

Painting with grids of color and letters

The Whitney Biennial is the Museum’s flagship exhibition, with a history of presenting emerging and established artists who explore the fundamental issues of their time.

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Crash Courses

A group of people sit in chairs, surrounding a work of art and educator.

In these intensive, single-session courses, noted experts provide an overview of key topics in modern and contemporary art.

How to Look

Three people examine an artwork, which hangs on a wall.

Develop your powers of attentiveness by learning simple tools for observing and describing works of art. Course participants will have special access to the Museum galleries after hours.

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Past Courses

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2019

A block of four, blue tinted self portraits, by Andy Warhol

Warhol in the Morning

Thu, Mar 14, 2019

 

A block of four, blue tinted self portraits, by Andy Warhol

Warhol in the Morning

Thu, Jan 31, 2019

 

A print showing rows of Coca-Cola bottles with a logo at the bottom.

If You Want to Know About Andy Warhol 

Wed, Jan 23, 2019

2018

A block of four, blue tinted self portraits, by Andy Warhol

Warhol in the Morning

Thu, Dec 6, 2018

 

Photo of a pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein, depicting bold brush strokes.

Pop in the Studio: Looking at Artistic Technique

Thu, Nov 1, 2018

 

A work by Sol LeWitt. A wall drawing depicts lines intersecting in a star pattern on a black background

Media Crazy: New and Old Technologies in Contemporary Art

Thu, Oct 4, 2018

 

Ink drawing.

Crash Course on Contemporary Art: Painting’s Environments

Sat, May 19, 2018

 

Ink drawing.

Crash Course on Contemporary Art: The Moving Image, Between Documentation and the Imaginary

Sat, May 12, 2018

 

Ink drawing.

Crash Course on Contemporary Art: The Politics of Performance

Sat, May 5, 2018

 

Photograph of a yellow photography store.

Taking Pictures

Thu, Apr 5, 2018

 

Photograph of a yellow photography store.

Taking Pictures

Wed, Apr 4, 2018

 

Charcoal drawing.

How to Look: Prints and Drawings

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

 

A yellow poster of a person in a gorilla suit siting on a stool.

Art As Activism, Activism as Art

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

 

A yellow poster of a person in a gorilla suit siting on a stool.

Art As Activism, Activism as Art

Wed, Jan 17, 2018

2017

Painting Today

Thu, Nov 2, 2017

 

Painting Today

Wed, Nov 1, 2017

 

Painting Today

Wed, Nov 1, 2017

 

Painting Today

Wed, Nov 1, 2017

 

Artist Andrea Geyer speaks with a course attendee in the Whitney’s galleries

Work in Progress: Calder and Performance

Thu, Oct 5, 2017

 

semi-abstract landscape in bright green, orange, and red

Crash Courses on Contemporary Art

Sat, May 20, 2017

 

semi-abstract landscape in bright green, orange, and red

Crash Courses on Contemporary Art

Sat, May 13, 2017

 

semi-abstract landscape in bright green, orange, and red

Crash Courses on Contemporary Art

Sat, May 6, 2017

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 26, 2017

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 26, 2017

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 19, 2017

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 19, 2017

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Thu, Apr 13, 2017

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 12, 2017

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