Courses

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

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

If You Want to Know About Andy Warhol 

Winter 2019

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

This course introduces participants to Warhol's work across media while shedding new light on the relevance of his practice for artists working today.

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Warhol in the Morning

Winter 2019

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

Join noted art historian and Pop art scholar Michael Lobel in studying some of Warhol’s most iconic subjects, including Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans, at one of the year’s most highly-anticipated exhibitions. Each session explores a central theme in Warhol’s practice.

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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

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

Select Thursdays
9 AM–10:30 AM

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Charcoal drawing.

How to Look: Prints and Drawings

 

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

Art As Activism, Activism as Art

2017

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

 

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

Crash Courses on Contemporary Art

Sat, May 6, 2017

 

gallery wall and banners hanging from ceiling

Protest Banner Lending Library with Aram Han Sifuentes and Cauleen Smith

Fri, Apr 7, 2017

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 5, 2017

 

A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Decade in Focus: Painting in the 1980s

Wed, Feb 8, 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

2016

A work by Barkley Hendricks. A portrait of a man dressed head-to-toe in a suit wearing sunglasses

How to Look: Portraiture

Tue, Nov 29, 2016

 

A work by Hito Steyerl. Visitors sit and recline in lawn chairs viewing a screen

Beyond the Visible: Photography and the Moving Image

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

 

A work by Catherine Opie. Performance artist Ron Athey stands posing for a portrait

Performing Identity: Place, Space, and the Body in portraiture

Wed, Jun 8, 2016

 

Why Contemporary Art Matters: Politics and Aesthetics Today

Thu, Feb 18, 2016

 

How to Look: Abstraction

Wed, Jan 13, 2016

2015

“What You See Is What You See”: Frank Stella

Thu, Nov 5, 2015

 

Crash Courses on Contemporary Art

Sat, Oct 17, 2015

 

Jazz Age Modernism: Archibald Motley in Context

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

 

Summer 2015 Course:
How to Look

Mon, Jun 8, 2015

2014

Art In the Age of Koons

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

 

Fall 2014 Course: How to Look

Wed, Sep 10, 2014

 

Two black and white portraits by Dawoud Bey of two woman sitting in chairs.

Inside the Whitney Biennial

Thu, Apr 3, 2014

2013

Black and white still of a performance by Sylvia Palacios Whitman.

Between Bodies and Objects: Performance in Contemporary Art

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

The Whitney is offering free admission to furloughed Federal employees with appropriate ID.