Courses

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

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

In-Depth

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

Get an in-depth view of current exhibitions through our exhibition courses, which feature discussion with curators and artists and special access to the Museum galleries during the evening sessions.

Crash Courses

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

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Past Courses

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THU

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

Warhol in the Morning

Thu, Dec 6, 2018

THU

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

Pop in the Studio: Looking at Artistic Technique

Nov 1, 8, 15, 2018

THU

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

Oct 4, 11, 18, 2018

SAT

Ink drawing.

Crash Course on Contemporary Art: Painting’s Environments

Sat, May 19, 2018

SAT

Ink drawing.

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

Sat, May 12, 2018

SAT

Ink drawing.

Crash Course on Contemporary Art: The Politics of Performance

Sat, May 5, 2018

 

Photograph of a yellow photography store.

Taking Pictures

THU

Charcoal drawing.

How to Look: Prints and Drawings

WED

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

Art As Activism, Activism as Art

 

Painting Today

 

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

Work in Progress: Calder and Performance

October 5, 12, 19

 

Open Studio

Saturdays and Sundays

 

Open Studio

Saturdays and Sundays
10:30 am–3 pm

SAT

Adult and child making collage together.

Open Studio

Saturdays and Sundays

SUN

Young boy drawing

Open Studio

 

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

Crash Courses on Contemporary Art

Sat, May 6, 2017

 

Two people working on a cylindrical object in a classroom with blue lockers in the background.

Open Studio For Teens: Jessi Reaves

Fri, May 5, 2017

 

gallery wall and banners hanging from ceiling

Protest Banner Lending Library with Aram Han Sifuentes and Cauleen Smith

Fri, Apr 7, 2017

 

Black banners with text and an eye being stabbed by a pencil

Open Studio For Teens: Cauleen Smith

Fri, Apr 7, 2017

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 5, 2017

SUN

Kids work with art materials

Open Studio

Sun, Apr 2, 2017

 

Fence obscuring view of field

Open Studio for Teens: Postcommodity

Fri, Mar 17, 2017

 

Kids work with art materials

Open Studio

Sat, Mar 4, 2017

FRI

Teens collaborate on a drawing

Open Studio for Teens

Fri, Feb 10, 2017

WED

A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Decade in Focus: Painting in the 1980s

Wed, Feb 8, 2017

 

A kid and parent work with art materials

Open Studio

Sat, Feb 4, 2017

SAT

A still from a film work by Jenny Perlin. A hand drawn sketch of two moons and the word 'twilight' against a blue background

Open Studio: Jenny Perlin

Sat, Jan 28, 2017

FRI

An neon and video installation by Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson. Neon lighs in bright orange, red and purple stretch the length of a wall; a projected image is visible

Studio Night: Sound and Color

Fri, Jan 27, 2017

 

A work on paper by Jasper Johns. Artists' tools are arranged in a coffee tip with the label that reads: Savarin

How to Look: Prints and Drawings

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

 

A kid works with art materials in the Whitney's studio

Open Studio

Sat, Jan 7, 2017

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