Whitney Signs: Sixties Surreal Sat, Nov 8, 2025, 3:30–6 pm

Whitney Signs: Sixties Surreal

Sat, Nov 8, 2025
3:30–6 pm

A painting of a movie house with abstracted audience members in box seats. A naked person is splayed out on the screen, an arm reaches from the upper left corner grabbing the person’s right leg.
A painting of a movie house with abstracted audience members in box seats. A naked person is splayed out on the screen, an arm reaches from the upper left corner grabbing the person’s right leg.

Roger Brown, Untitled (Movie house with nude female), 1968. Oil on canvas, 24 3/4 × 24 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (62.9 × 62.5 × 4.4 cm). Courtesy the Roger Brown Study Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. © Estate of Roger Brown 

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This event is free. Advance registration is required. We are unable to accommodate walk-ups. Due to limited capacity, this program is Deaf-priority and not open to ASL students.

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Floor 1, Lobby

Join us for an in-person tour of Sixties Surreal led by Deaf educator Emmanuel von Schack in American Sign Language. The event begins with a tour at 3:30 pm and will be followed by a wine and cheese reception from 5–6 pm in the Laurie M. Tisch Education Center. Please plan to meet in the lobby at 3:15 pm.  

This tour will be in ASL and will not have voice interpretation. To request interpretation for Tactile, Protactile, International Sign Language, another language, or additional accommodations, including Braille, please email accessfeedback@whitney.org or call (646) 666-5574 (relay calls welcome) with two weeks’ notice. 


On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

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Learn more at whitney.org/artport

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