Press Release Archive

2019

As Part of a Trio of Exhibitions Devoted to the Artist, Pope.L:Choir to Open at the Whitney

The Whitney To Present Rachel Harrison's First Full-Scale Survey

Whitney Announces Two Curatorial Promotions

Order and Ornament: Roy Lichtenstein's Entablatures to Provide Focused Examination of Artist's Process

The Whitney to Present Jason Moran This September

Donna De Salvo to Bid Farewell to the Whitney Museum of American Art Following 15 Years and Acclaimed Warhol Exhibition, Now on National Tour

The Whitney to Open Seven Days a Week in July and August

Whitney to Present Programs in Celebration of Stonewall 50

2019 Whitney Biennial to Feature a Variety of Public Programs with Artists and Curators

Annual Whitney ISP Exhibition to Go on View at the Kitchen

The Whitney's Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965, Highlighting Both Beloved and New Icons, Opens at the Whitney June 28

Performance and Film to be Key Components of the 2019 Whitney Biennial

The Whitney Launches Online Resource Exploring History of the Whitney Biennial

Whitney Museum of American Art Celebrates 2019 Gala & Studio Party

Whitney Museum Announces 300 Recent Acquisitions and 60 Artists New to the Collection, Including Nina Chanel Abney, Meriem Bennani, Ed Clark, Barbara Hammer, Channa Horwitz, Simone Leigh, Willa Nasatir, Mary Weatherford, and Others

Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise Makes Its New York City Debut at the Whitney on April 26 and 27

Artists Announced for the 2019 Whitney Biennial: Opening on May 17

Last Chance to See Warhol: the Whitney to Open Seven Days in March

Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s to Open at the Whitney March 29

The Whitney Acquires Norman Lewis Masterwork

The Whitney to Host a Variety of Performances and Programs with Artists and Writers

2018

The Whitney Announces Advance Exhibition Schedule for 2019

Kevin Beasley to Debut Immersive Installation at the Whitney this December

Whitney Museum Announces 417 Recent Acquisitions

Warhol’s Films to Play a Starring Role in the Whitney’s Upcoming Retrospective

Two Events in Conjunction with David Wojnarowicz’s Retrospective: The Legendary Per formance Work ITSOFOMO and an Encore Screening of New Film about the Artist

Public Art Installation by Derek Fordjour Debuts this Fall

Artists, Activists, and Historians Participate in Symposium on Visual Arts and the Aids Epidemic

The Face In The Moon: Drawings And Prints By Louise Nevelson Explores The Artist’s Works On Paper

The Whitney Receives An Extraordinary Gift Of Works By Roy Lichtenstein And Announces Creation Of The World’s Largest Study Collection Of Lichtenstein Art And Artist Materials

The Whitney to Present Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay, a Group Exhibition Featuring Seven Mid-Career and Emerging Latinx Artists

The Whitney to Present Eckhaus Latta: Possessed

Whitney Independent Study Program Presents Omnipresence

David Wojnarowicz Retrospective at the Whitney Explores the Enduring Resonance of an Artist Who Merged the Personal with the Political

Lindsay Pollock Named Chief Communications and Content Officer At The Whitney

The Whitney Hosts Immigrant Justice Night

Spring Public Programs At The Whitney Announced

Adrienne Edwards Appointed Curator of Performance at the Whitney

Between The Waters, A Group Exhibition, Opens At The Whitney On March 9

Nick Mauss: Transmissions to Open at the Whitney on March 16

Flash: Photographs by Harold Edgerton from the Whitney’s Collection to Open March 30 at The Whitney

Juan Antonio Olivares: Moléculas Opens At The Whitney On March 2

Whitney To Host A Variety Of Performances And Programs With Artists And Critics In February

The Whitney Releases iMessage Stickers Designed By Laura Owens

Public Art Installation by Christine Sun Kim Debuts on January 29

The Whitney to Present Zoe Leonard: Survey

Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art Opens at the Whitney September 28

The Whitney To Open Seven Days A Week In July And August

Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, The First Major Reexamination of Warhol’s Art in a Generation, to Open at the Whitney on November 12

The Whitney to Present the First Museum Survey of the Work of Mary Corse

2017

The Whitney to Present Grant Wood: American Gothic And Other Fables

Curators Announced for 2019 Whitney Biennial

The Whitney Presents 2017 Walter Annenberg Lecture: Catherine Opie in Conversation With Adam D. Weinberg on Thursday, November 30

The Whitney Announces New Exhibitions on the Horizon for 2018

Experiments in Electrostatics: Photocopy Art from the Whitney’s Collection, 1966–1986

The Whitney to Present First U.S. Retrospective of Jimmie Durham

The Whitney Presents Proposal for a Public Art Project by David Hammons at Gansevoort Peninsula

Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined Opens at the Whitney on October 20

An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940‒2017

Major Gift of Hopper Archival Materials Received by the Whitney

Public Art Installation by Do Ho Suh to Debut June 26

The Whitney to Receive Two Key Prewar Paintings, a Hopper and a Hassam

Artist Pope.L (aka William Pope.L) Named the Recipient of the 2017 Bucksbaum Award

Whitney Announces Kim Conaty as new Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints

The Whitney to Present Solo Exhibitions by Bunny Rogers and Willa Nasatir

Where We Are: Selections From the Whitney’s Collection, 1900-1960

Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium

Susan Cianciolo’s Run Restaurant Untitled To Take Place April 18, 19, and 20 as Part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial

Public Programs of the 2017 Whitney Biennial Announced

A Broad Range of Moving Image Artists To Be Shown In The 2017 Biennial’s Film Program

Calder’s Use of Motion and Sound to be Explored in a New Whitney Exhibition, Calder: Hypermobility, Opening June 9

MPA’s Exhibition to Conclude with Premiere Performances of Orbit and Assembly

The Whitney To Open on a Pay-What-You-Wish Basis on January 20 with Special Programming

The Whitney To Present Mid-Career Survey of the Work of Laura Owens

2016

Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s

The Whitney Installs 142 New Works From Its Collection In Its Portrait Exhibition

2017 Whitney Biennial, The First To Take Place In The Museum’s Downtown Building, To Open March 17

The Whitney Announces Film Program And Expanded Cinema Events Presented as Part of Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

MPA: RED IN VIEW Opens at the Whitney on November 11

Virginia Overton: Winter Garden

David Breslin to Join The Whitney’s Curatorial Department

Danny Lyon Book Launch and Reading on September 8

The Whitney to Debut Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight, opening September 16

Whitney Commissioned {Software} Structures, an online project by Casey Reas, launches in a restored version September 9

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future Film Screenings and Conversation with John Lewis, July 14-15, 2016

New Performance by Jill Kroesen to debut at the Whitney on July 29

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 an Overview of Cinematic Experimentation, to be Presented at the Whitney

2016 ISP Exhibition, On Limits: Estrangement in the Everyday, to be Presented at The Kitchen

Sibyl Kempson’s 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens at the Whitney

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future Debuts at the Whitney This Summer

Stuart Davis: In Full Swing to Debut at the Whitney in June

Whitney Commissions Virginia Overton to Create Site-Specific Installation

Torbjørn Rødland Work to Be Featured in Outdoor Art Series

June Leaf: Thought Is Infinite

To Celebrate First Anniversary of Opening Downtown, Whitney Neighbors to Receive Free Admission to the Museum on April 30

Leonard A. Lauder Given Inaugural Whitney Collection Award; Museum’s Building to be Named in Lauder’s Honor

Leading Contemporary Art Museums Release Room to Rise, a Study of Powerful Long-Term Impact of Teen Art Programs

The Whitney to Present Two-Floor Exhibition in Celebration of the Portrait

2015 Acquisition Highlights

Open Plan: Cecil Taylor

Open Plan: Steve McQueen

Open Plan: Michael Heizer

Poet Anne Carson To Appear at the Whitney in Conjunction with Laura Poitras: Astro Noise

Open Plan: Andrea Fraser

The Whitney To Present Five Films By Emile De Antonio To Coincide With Laura Poitras: Astro Noise

Open Plan: Lucy Dodd

The NECKS in Concert with Alvin Curran and Arnold Dreyblatt

Whitney Acquires Archibald Motley Masterwork

2015

Whitney Announces Two Upcoming Shows Featuring Emerging Artists

The Whitney to Present Open Plan, A Five-Part Exhibition Revealing the Museum’s Signature Fifth- Floor Galleries as a Vast Open Space

Generous Gift From The Donald And Barbara Zucker Family Foundation Will Support Whitney’s Popular Pay-What-You-Wish Hours on Friday Evenings

Laura Poitras’s first solo museum exhibition opens February 5 at the Whitney, adding a new chapter in her work to the post-9/11 world

The Whitney Announces Curators For 2017 Biennial

The Whitney presents Eleventh Annual Annenberg Lecture: Frank Stella in Conversation with Adam D. Weinberg

Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner

Whitney to Present Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist

Whitney to Debut Frank Stella: A Retrospective

The Whitney Museum of American Art Receives A Gift For Education From The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation

Whitney Museum Announces Curatorial Staff Promotions

The Whitney Announces New Officers for Board of Trustees

The Whitney Expands Its Leadership Team

Work by Michele Abeles Is Featured in Outdoor Art Project

First Lady Michelle Obama Joins with Dignitaries and Artists to Dedicate the Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Announces Hours and Admission Prices for New Building

Empire State Building to Light Up for the Whitney on May 1

Annual Whitney ISP Exhibition, S/N, Goes on View May 22 at The Kitchen

Whitney Taps Artist Mary Heilmann for Site-Specific Installation to Open New Building

Whitney inaugurates new emerging artist series, presenting U.S. debuts of Jared Madere, Rachel Rose, and Sophia Al-Maria

The Whitney’s Inaugural Exhibition in Its New Building Presents Fresh Narratives of American Art

Whitney Museum Receives Gift from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation

“Eva Hesse” a Feature Documentary about Hesse and the Art World of the 1960s to Premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art

2014

Whitney to Inaugurate New Building Downtown in May 2015

The Whitney’s Photography Collection Transformed by Promised Gift from Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla and Celso Gonzalez-Falla

Max Mara and the Whitney Museum of American Art Announce Partnership

Annual Annenberg Lecture: Jeff Koons in Conversation

Alex Katz Mural to be Unveiled Opposite Future Whitney

The Whitney Highlights Gifts to its Collection from Some of the Museum’s Greatest Benefactors in Shaping a Collection: Five Decades of Gifts

The Whitney Appoints Christopher Y. Lew as Associate Curator

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper Tops the List of American Artworks Selected for the Largest Outdoor Art Show Ever Conceived

Zoe Leonard Receives 2014 Bucksbaum Award

Whitney Museum Donates Education Studio to Socrates Sculpture Park

Annual Whitney ISP Exhibition, Common Spaces, Goes on View at The Kitchen

The Whitney Announces Inaugural Year Exhibitions for Its New Downtown Home

Whitney Joins Four Other Major Museums in Launching Art Everywhere US

Whitney Museum Announces 2014 Bucksbaum Award Jury

2014 Whitney Biennial

Whitney Museum Loans Two Edward Hopper Paintings to The White House

2013

Whitney to Present Jeff Koons Retrospective

Choreographer and Bucksbaum Award Winner Sarah Michelson to Debut Her Latest Work at the Whitney

Whitney Announces 2014 Biennial Participants

Whitney Launches Video Series About Downtown Building Process

Edward Steichen in the 1920s and 1930s: A Recent Acquisition

Ninth Annual Annenberg Lecture: John Currin in Conversation with Adam D. Weinberg

Whitney to Highlight Recent Acquisitions by Emerging Artists

Whitney to Open Pioneering Exhibition of Downtown New York Performance of the 1970s

The Whitney Presents Panoramic Video Installation By T.J. Wilcox

The Whitney Presents Retrospective of Pop Artist Robert Indiana

The Whitney to Relaunch Douglas Davis’s The World’s First Collaborative Sentence

The Whitney Unveils Designs for Elevators Comissioned from Richard Artschwager for Future Downtown Home

The Whitney Presents Large-Scale Installation by Robert Irwin

Stewart Uoo and Jana Euler: Outside Inside Sensibility

The Jugglers, July 24th 2012

Three Museums Receive Gift of Steichen Photographs from Richard and Jackie Hollander

Blues for Smoke

2012

The Whitney Celebrates the Topping Out of its Future Home

Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective

New Role for Scott Rothkopf at the Whitney

American Legends

Whitney Museum Names Curators for 2014 Biennial

Emergency Cheesecake

Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV and the Movies

Plymouth Rock 2

Whitney Announces Grant from the Keith Haring Foundation

Eighth Annual Annenberg Lecture: Sarah Sze in Conversation with Adam D. Weinberg

High Line Art and Whitney Museum Present Richard Artschwager’s blps

Richard Artschwager!

Jay Sanders Named Whitney Curator

Oskar Fischinger: Space Light Art – A Film Environment

Signs & Symbols

Sharon Hayes: There’s so much I want to say to you

ISP Presents Creative Destruction

Sarah Michelson Receives 2012 Bucksbaum Award

Whitney Receives Grant from Henry Luce Foundation

Whitney Builds Education Studio Designed by LOT-EK

Extraordinary Gift from Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner

2012 Whitney Biennial

The Whitney and Storm King Art Center Receive Major Work by David Smith

2011

Artists Announced for Whitney Biennial 2012

For Kids Web Pages Launched

Sherrie Levine MAYHEM

Artists Documentation Program, Online Archive, Launches

Aleksandra Mir’s The Seduction of Galileo Galilei

The Whitney Announces Team for Second Volume Devoted to Warhol’s Films

Three Landscapes: A Film Installation by Roy Lichtenstein

David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy

Whitney to Present Streb Performances Downtown

Xavier Cha’s Body Drama

Mayor Bloomberg Joins Whitney Museum for Downtown Groundbreaking

Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Announce Collaborative Agreement

ISP Presents Foreclosed: Between Crisis and Possibility

Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World

Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools

More Than That: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson

The Whitney Announces Multi-Year Series of Collection Exhibitions

Dianna Molzan’s First Solo Museum Show

USHG Announces Forthcoming Whitney Cafe: Untitled

Glenn Ligon: AMERICA

Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection

2010

Staff Promotions Lead to New Management Structure

Singular Visions, An Experimental New Installation

Whitney Museum Names Curators for 2012 Biennial

Sixth Annual Annenberg Lecture: Susan Rothenberg in Conversation with Adam D. Weinberg

Charles LeDray: workworkworkworkwork

Curate Your Own Membership

Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time

Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective

John Jonas Gruen Exhibition Extended

Rockwell Group to Design New Cafe

Off the Wall Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions Part 2: Seven Works by Trisha Brown

Whitney To Break Ground on New Downtown Building in 2011

Emily Fisher Landau Gives Major Gift to the Whitney

Christian Marclay: Festival

Whitney on Site: New Commissions Downtown

Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield

Union Square Hospitality Group and the Whitney present Sandwiched: New “Pop-Up” Cafe

2010 Bucksbaum Award-Winner Announced

Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group to Serve as Exclusive Caterer and Operate New Cafe

2009

Artists Announced for Whitney Biennial, 2010

The Whitney Announces Two Curatorial Appointments

Omer Fast: Nostalgia

Whitney.org Redesign and Relaunch

Fifth Annual Annenberg Lecture: Bill Viola in Conversation with Adam D. Weinberg

Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer

A Few Frames: Photography and the Contact Sheet

Roni Horn aka Roni Horn

Special Exhibition Exploring Lucinda Childs’s Legendary Dance

The Feelies to Kick Off a Series of Indie-Rock Concerts and Special Events as Part of Dan Graham Retrospective

Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction

Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films and Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room

Sadie Benning’s Play Pause

Dan Graham: Beyond

Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT

Elad Lassry: Three Films

2008

Artists Making Photographs

2009 Composers’ Showcase Features Meredith Monk Performance Marathon

Whitney Museum Names Curators for 2010 Biennial

New Video Installation by Alex Bag

Fourth Annual Annenberg Lecture: John Baldessari in Conversation with Adam Weinberg

Whitney Museum Announces Appointment of New Education Director

Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage

William Eggleston Retrospective

“Progress” —A Selection of Works from Museum’s Permanent Collection

Whitney Museum of American Art Appoints John S. Stanley as Deputy Director

Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933

Whitney Museum Announces New Officers for Board of Trustees

2008 Whitney Biennial Now in Final Weeks

Whitney Independent Study Program Presents For Reasons of State at The Kitchen

Whitney Unveils Design by Renzo Piano for New Downtown Building

Johanna Burton Named Associate Director and Senior Faculty Member of ISP

Omer Fast to Receive 2008 Bucksbaum Award

Wordless at Whitney Live

Whitney Museum Launches Whitney Focus Video Series

Landmark Exhibition on Buckminster Fuller to Open in June

Polaroids: Mapplethorpe

Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement—Three Installations, Two Films

Whitney Museum Announces Largest Gift in Its History—$131 Million from The American Contemporary Art Foundation

Artists Selected for 2008 Whitney Biennial

Clifford Chance and Whitney Museum Partner for Whitney After Hours

Reinstallation of the Whitney’s Collection

Whitney Branch at Altria to Close

Kara Walker Survey to Close

Iconic Demuth Paintings of Lancaster to Go on View in February

2007

Lawrence Weiner: Complete Films and Videos to Be Presented at Anthology Film Archives

Television Delivers People

Beth Campbell: Following Room

Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series: Selections from The Phillips Collection Moves from Studio Museum to Whitney

Kara Walker’s First American Museum Survey to Open

Whitney at Altria to Open Undone

Whitney Museum Launches Learning@Whitney

Whitney Announces Fall 2007 Performance Series

First Major U.S. Retrospective of the Work of Lawrence Weiner

Neither New Nor Correct: New Work by Mark Bradford

Whitney Announces July 2007 Performance Series, In Conjunction with the Exhibition

Resistance Is . . .

Whitney Announces Appointment of Two New Senior Staff Members

The Price of Everything . . . Perspectives on the Art Market Presented by Whitney Independent Study Program

Grab It! The Music of Jacobtv (Jacob Ter Veldhuis)

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era

A Tribute to Lincoln Kirstein

Whitney at Altria to Present Matthew Brannon: Where Were We

Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure

Lights, Camera, Action: Artists’ Films for the Cinema

New Work by Terence Koh

2006

Whitney Signs Letter of Intent with City to Aquire High Line Site at Gansevoort and Washington Streets and to Build a Second Museum Facility

Kiki Smith Retrospective Traverses Artist’s 25-Year Career

Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World

Edward Hopper Extended

Whitney to Present New Work by Mark Grotjahn

Picasso and American Art

Whitney at Altria to Open Trace

Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75

A Full Floor of Edward Hopper’s Works Opens as Part of Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75

Succor: A Festival of Live Performance

Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night

Definitive Book on Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, Underway for 15 Years, Provides Unique Portrait of Warhol’s World

2005

Skin Is a Language, An Exhibition of Sculpture, Drawing, Photography, and Prints from the Collection

Whitney at Altria to Open Andrea Zittel: Small Liberties

Whitney in Association with Harvard University Art Museums to Present Ed Ruscha’s Course of Empire

Whitney Museum and Antenna Audio to Launch Follow Through, A Mobile Media Project

Public Art Fund and Whitney Announce Collaboration for the 2006 Whitney Biennial

Morgan Fisher Retrospective

An American Modernist Rediscovered — Whitney Presents Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color

Whitney at Altria to Open Rob Fischer

Building and Breaking the Grid, 1962-2002

New Work by Raymond Pettibon

2004

Whitney Museum Appoints Carter Foster Curator of Drawings

Whitney Museum Announces Three New Curatorial Appointments

Raymond Pettibon Receives 2004 Bucksbaum Award

Strange Pilgrims: A Festival of Live Performance

Architecture by Numbers at the Whitney at Altria

Lot-Ek: Mobile Dwelling Unit

Retrospective of Ed Ruscha’s Drawings

Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance

Ed Ruscha and Photography

2003

Whitney Announces Major Acquisition of Ed Ruscha Photographs

Bucksbaum Award-Winner Irit Batsry’s Latest Work Is Part of The Contemporary Series

Related Events Expand Dimensions of 2004 Biennial

Expanded Line-Up of Performances for Whitney’s Friday-Evening Soundcheck Series During 2004 Biennial

Inside-Out: Portrait Photographs

2004 Whitney Biennial

Luis Gispert: Urban Myths Part II (Return of the Hypenaholics)