About whitney.org
The current iteration of whitney.org was launched on April 25, 2017 and built in-house by the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media, WGBH Educational Foundation have served as accessibility consultants. The Museum's graphic identity was designed by Experimental Jetset. The Museum's current online collection was developed in-house.
Rafaël Rozendaal, screenshot of Almost There at sunrise, 2015
Internet Art Projects
In 2009, the Whitney began commissioning Sunrise/Sunset, a series of Internet art projects to mark sunrise and sunset in New York City, every day. In 2024 Sunrise/Sunset was replaced by On the Hour, a new series of projects that mark every full hour around the clock. Unfolding over a timeframe of ten to thirty seconds, each project forms a visual and interactive intervention with the website itself.
Sunrise/Sunset and now On The Hour is curated by Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and implemented by the Museum's Digital Development Department.
To see the current project, be anywhere on this website on the hour.
A screenshot of the Whitney's open access GitHub repository
Open Access
On May 11, 2021, the Whitney Museum of American published its first open access datasets, available under a Creative Commons CC0 license. These datasets include all artist and artwork information available on the Museum's online collection, in an easily digestible CSV format.
Frank Stella, Geometry XVII, 2022. Digital 3D model for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and 3D-printed sculpture, video, still image, with NFT. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Tom Armstrong Purchase Fund 2024.4.17. © 2022 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Public API
The Whitney provides access to much of our public data through an API (application programming interface) in addition to our open access datasets. This includes artists and works from our online collection, and exhibitions and events. Data is most complete for more current records, with more limited information available pre-internet.
Feedback?
Please send your questions, comments, or feedback to webmaster@whitney.org.