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2022

Artists Announced for Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept, Opening April 6
Whitney Museum Announces Exhibition Schedule Through Fall 2022
David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards Will Curate the Next Whitney Biennial

2021

The Whitney Announces Winter Season of Education and Public Programs
New Sunrise/Sunset Commission, Hateful Little Thing by Ryan Kuo, Debuts on Whitney.org
Whitney Museum Announces Publication of Second Volume of Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné and Transfer of Andy Warhol Film Project Archives to Museum of Modern Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art Appoints Seven New Members to Its Board of Trustees
My Barbarian debuts at the Whitney on October 29
Labyrinth of Forms, an Exhibition Highlighting Early-Twentieth-Century Abstract Art By Groundbreaking Women Artists, Opens at the Whitney on October 9
Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing Opens at the Whitney on October 30
Dawoud Bey to Deliver Walter Annenberg Lecture on September 14
Tickets Now Available for Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
The Whitney Brings Together Artists and Scholars For Day-Long Convening On July 28 On The Occasion of Julie Mehretu
The Whitney to Present Digital and In-Person Programs This Summer
Cris Scorza Joins The Whitney as Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education
Se Integra Cris Scorza Al Whitney Museum Como Directora Titular De La Cátedra Helena Rubinstein De Educación
Whitney Announces Two Curatorial Promotions
Artists Among Us, The Whitney's First-Ever Podcast With Host Carrie Mae Weems, Debuts May 14
Whitney Museum Announces the Completion of David Hammons's Day's End, a Monumental Public Sculpture Permanently Installed in Hudson River Park
Whitney Announces Promotion of Adrienne Edwards to Director of Curatorial Affairs
Dawoud Bey, Andrea Carlson, Madeline Hollander, and Julie Mehretu Featured in Whitney Public Programs This Spring
The Whitney Debuts New Performance Work by Dave McKenzie on May 1
Artist-Made AI Program, The Next Biennial Should Be Curated by a Machine, Launches on the Whitney's Artport
Morning Mirror / Evening Mirror by LaTurbo Avedon Launches on the Whitney's Artport
Dawoud Bey's Career Retrospective, An American Project, To Open at the Whitney on April 17
The Whitney to Debut Public Artwork by Andrea Carlson on January 25
Whitney Kicks Off 2021 with an Array of Public Programs Including Series with Kamoinge Workshop Photographers
Comprehensive Survey of Artist Julie Mehretu's Career Opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art This March

2020

Whitney To Present First U.S. Solo Exhibition of Madeline Hollander in March 2021
Nothing Is So Humble—A Look at How Seven Artists Have Used Ordinary Objects to Make Extraordinary Prints—to Open at the Whitney on November 20
Whitney to Present Exhibition of Kamoinge Workshop Photographers this November
Salman Toor: How Will I Know Opens at the Whitney on November 13, 2020
Whitney Museum Announces Exhibition Schedule Through April 2022
New Dates Are Announced for a Lifetime Retrospective Dedicated to Jasper Johns that will be Presented Simultaneously in New York and Philadelphia
“Around Day's End” Debuts at the Whitney September 3
Reopening Fact Sheet
Whitney Museum Announces Plans to Reopen this September
American Artist's 'Looted' (2020) Launches on the Whitney's artport
New Whitney Screens Series Continues to Stream Works from the Collection
Whitney Expands Online Programming to Provide Offerings for All Ages
Cierre Temporal del Whitney Museum Entra en Vigor el 13 de Marzo a las 5 PM
Temporary Closure of the Whitney Goes into Effect on March 13 at 5 PM
The Whitney to Debut Public Artwork by Jill Mulleady on March 2
Salman Toor: How Will I Know Opens at the Whitney on March 20, 2020
Cauleen Smith: Mutualities to Open at the Whitney in February
Counting Down to Vida Americana, The Whitney Announces Education and Public Programs To Be Presented in Conjunction with Landmark Exhibition

2019

Darren Bader's Edible Exhibition to Open at the Whitney on January 15
Landmark Exhibition of the Work of Agnes Pelton, Unsung Visionary Painter of the Sublime, To Open at the Whitney in March
"Vida americana: Los muralistas mexicanos rehacen el arte estadounidense, 1925–1945" Reunira 200 Obras de 60 Artistas Estadounidenses y Eexicanos en el Whitney Museum en Febrero de 2020
Whitney Receives Grant From the Keith Haring Foundation For David Hammons's Public Art Project on Gansevoort Peninsula
The Whitney Announces 2020 Exhibition Schedule
"Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945" Brings Together 200 Works by 60 American and Mexican Artists at the Whitney Museum in February 2020
The Whitney Museum Announces Recent Acquisitions, Including Works Acquired From 2019 Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Presents an Array of Talks Linked to Rachel Harrison Exhibition
The Whitney Presents 2019 Walter Annenberg Lecture on Monday, December 16: Jason Moran in Conversation with Adam D. Weinberg
The Whitney Presents Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Highlighting Rarely Seen Artworks from the Museum's Collection
The Whitney Presents Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Highlighting Rarely Seen Artworks from the Museum's Collection
Whitney Commences Installation of Day's End, a Permanent Public Art Project by David Hammons, In Hudson River Park
Alan Michelson: Wolf Nation to Open at the Whitney on October 25
2019 Bucksbaum Award
The Whitney To Present a Performance Series in Conjunction with Jason Moran
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
Mirror Cells
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
I, YOU, WE
Hopper Drawing
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
Sinister Pop
Richard Artschwager!
Wade Guyton OS
Jay Sanders Named Whitney Curator
Oskar Fischinger: Space Light Art – A Film Environment
Yayoi Kusama
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
Real/Surreal
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
Sites
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
Synthetic
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 . . .
Rudolf Stingel
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)

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