Public Programs

Engage with artists, curators, writers, and scholars through innovative programs that explore the Whitney’s current exhibitions and permanent collection.

2019 Walter Annenberg Lecture: Jason Moran

Composer and multimedia artist Jason Moran works at the intersection of jazz and the visual arts. His broad oeuvre in composition, improvisation, and performance challenges audiences to think beyond conventional boundaries between the arts. For the 2019 Walter Annenberg Lecture, Moran speaks about his practice and the history of jazz and its role in American art and culture with Adam D. Weinberg, the Museum’s Alice Pratt Brown Director.

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Perspectives on the Whitney's collection

Joan Tisch Teaching Fellows

This program offers advanced graduate students the opportunity to work directly with the Whitney’s collection and audiences within a supportive community of their peers and museum educators.

Courses

Whitney courses are multi-week programs that examine key issues in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art and culture.