A Closer Look: Guided Close-Looking Through Dialogue

A Closer Look: Guided Close-Looking Through Dialogue

Multiple images in bright red, blue, yellow, and green interact and overlap giving the illusion of a collage or of prints, posters, drawings and objects tacked, pinned, taped, or hung on a wall or balanced on a shelf. The left half of the background is patterned hashmarks, and the title and artist’s name are stenciled across the top.
Multiple images in bright red, blue, yellow, and green interact and overlap giving the illusion of a collage or of prints, posters, drawings and objects tacked, pinned, taped, or hung on a wall or balanced on a shelf. The left half of the background is patterned hashmarks, and the title and artist’s name are stenciled across the top.

Jasper Johns, Racing Thoughts, 1983. Encaustic, screenprint, and wax crayon on collaged cotton and linen, 48 1/16 × 75 3/16 in. (122.1 × 191 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Burroughs Wellcome Purchase Fund; Leo Castelli; the Wilfred P. and Rose J. Cohen Purchase Fund; the Julia B. Engel Purchase Fund; the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Purchase Fund; The Sondra and Charles Gilman, Jr. Foundation, Inc.; S. Sidney Kahn; The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund; the Sara Roby Foundation; and the Painting and Sculpture Committee, 84.6. © 2026 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York  

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Floor 7

Mondays, 12 pm
Saturdays, Sundays, 3 pm

Slow down and discover how much there is to see when we take the time to look closely at highlights from “Untitled” (America). Guided by a Museum docent, participants are encouraged to think through and discuss works together. Each forty-five-minute session focuses on a single work of art or explores a connection between two works. 


On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Frank WANG Yefeng, The Levitating Perils #2

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Learn more at whitney.org/artport

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