Opening Reception for Amy Sherald: American Sublime
Thurs, Apr 3, 2025
8–10 pm
Amy Sherald, If You Surrendered to the Air, You Could Ride It, 2019. Oil on linen, 130 × 108 × 2 1/2 in. (330.2 × 274.3 × 6.4 cm. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee, Sascha S. Bauer, Jack Cayre, Nancy Carrington Crown, Nancy Poses, Laura Rapp, and Elizabeth Redleaf 2020.148. © Amy Sherald. Photograph by Joseph Hyde
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Friend, Patron, and Contemporaries members are invited to this event. The invitation is for two individuals per membership household and registration instructions will be provided by email. Patron and Contemporaries members are welcome to arrive early for priority admission at 7 pm.
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Throughout the Whitney
Open to Friend, Patron, and Contemporaries members
Experience Amy Sherald’s first major museum survey, American Sublime. The show features a broad range of the artist’s work, from her iconic paintings of First Lady Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor—two of the most recognizable and significant paintings made by an American artist in recent years—alongside poetic, rarely seen early works and a brand new presentation made on the occasion of this exhibition.
During this time, you’ll also get a first look at Collection View: Louise Nevelson, Mary Heilmann: Long Line, and Marina Zurkow: Parting Worlds.
The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965 and Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night will also be on view.
