After-Hours Tours: Edges of Ailey
Ellen Gallagher, Ecstatic Draught of Fishes, 2022. Oil, pigment, wax, palladium leaf and paper on canvas, 89 3/4 × 118 1/8 in. (228 × 300 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The George Economou Collection 2023.74. ©️ Ellen Gallagher
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Patron, Circle, Fellow, and Sponsor members are invited to this event. The invitation is for two individuals per membership household. Registration instructions will be provided by email.
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Floor 5
Open to Patron, Circle, Fellow, and Sponsor Members
Wednesday, October 16 at 6:45 pm, 7:15 pm
Wednesday, November 20 at 6:45 pm, 7:15 pm
Join us for a tour of Edges of Ailey, the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey.
Dive deeper into sweeping holdings of rarely seen archives, including performance footage, recorded interviews, notebooks, letters, poems, short stories, choreographic notes, drawings, and performance programs and posters gathered from Ailey’s archives and others that forge a vital throughline in the gallery.
These after-hours tours offer a fifty-minute overview of select works with the Museum’s Joan Tisch Teaching Fellows and educators. There are multiple time options on each event date. Following the tour, we invite you to enjoy a light reception alongside fellow members.