Contemporaries Tours: / Danny Lyon: Message to the Future Wed, July 6, 2016, 7:45 pm

Contemporaries Tours:
Danny Lyon: Message to the Future

Wed, July 6, 2016
7:45 pm

A photograph by Danny Lyon. Teenagers sit in a tent.
A photograph by Danny Lyon. Teenagers sit in a tent.

Danny Lyon (b. 1942), Occupy Oakland, City Hall, Oakland, 2011. Archival pigment print, 9 3/4 x 13 in. (24.6 x 33 cm). Collection of the artist. © Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

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Floor Five

Contemporaries and Contemporaries Patrons members

The first comprehensive retrospective of the career of Danny Lyon in twenty-five years assembles approximately one hundred and seventy-five photographs and related films and ephemera to highlight the artist’s concern with social and political issues. Explore the exhibition during after-hours tours led by Whitney teaching fellows. A wine reception will be open before and after the tours.

Active Contemporaries members are invited to register for one of four options:

Wednesday, July 6
Option 1: 7:45 pm
Option 2: 8:15 pm

Wednesday, September 7
Option 3: 7:45 pm
Option 4: 8:15 pm

Open to Contemporaries and Contemporaries Patrons members. Space is limited and open to two individuals per membership. To RSVP, email contemporaries@whitney.org.


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