Courses

Expand your perspectives through innovative courses offered every fall, winter, and spring. Check back soon for our new fall 2017 course offerings!

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

Work in Progress: Calder and Performance
October 5, 12, 19

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

This three-week course will consider the influence of performance on a range of artistic practices throughout the 20th and 21st century art, using the exhibition Calder: Hypermobility as a point of departure. 

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Painting Today
Wednesdays or Thursdays in November

This four-session course examines how artists are reinvigorating image making, beginning with the work of Laura Owens.

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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

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2017

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

Work in Progress: Calder and Performance

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

2–3:30 pm

 

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

Work in Progress: Calder and Performance

Thu, Oct 5, 2017

2–3:30 pm

 

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

Crash Courses on Contemporary Art

Sat, May 20, 2017

2–4 pm

 

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

Crash Courses on Contemporary Art

Sat, May 13, 2017

2–4 pm

 

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

Crash Courses on Contemporary Art

Sat, May 6, 2017

2–4 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

2–3:30 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 26, 2017

6:30–8 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 26, 2017

3–4:30 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

2–3:30 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 19, 2017

6:30–8 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 19, 2017

3–4:30 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Thu, Apr 13, 2017

2–3:30 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 12, 2017

6:30–8 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 12, 2017

3–4:30 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Thu, Apr 6, 2017

2–3:30 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 5, 2017

6:30–8 pm

 

Esparza standing over fire in dirt trench

Inside Whitney Biennial 2017

Wed, Apr 5, 2017

3–4:30 pm

 

A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Decade in Focus: Painting in the 1980s

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

2–3:30 pm

 

A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Decade in Focus: Painting in the 1980s

Wed, Feb 22, 2017

6:30–8 pm

 

A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Decade in Focus: Painting in the 1980s

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

2–3:30 pm

 

A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Decade in Focus: Painting in the 1980s

Wed, Feb 15, 2017

6:30–8 pm

 

A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Decade in Focus: Painting in the 1980s

Thu, Feb 9, 2017

2–3:30 pm

 

A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Decade in Focus: Painting in the 1980s

Wed, Feb 8, 2017

6:30–8 pm

 

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, Feb 2, 2017

2:30–4 pm

 

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 26, 2017

2:30–4 pm

 

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

2:30–4 pm

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, Dec 13, 2016

3–4:30 pm

 

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

How to Look: Portraiture

Tue, Dec 6, 2016

3–4:30 pm

 

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

3–4:30 pm

 

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

Beyond the Visible: Photography and the Moving Image

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

2–3:30 pm

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