The Whitney Museum of American Art collects modern, post-war and contemporary art of the United States. It used to be the last place you would look for Latin, Indigenous or African art, but now it’s the first place.
Art is Art
The Whitney is leading the charge towards inclusion in the art world. It is in the vanguard redefining the boundaries of American art to be inclusive of race, gender, region, and social class. After all, art is art.
In February of 2020, the Whitney recast art history by stating that the biggest influence on the development of American art was not the European schools, it was the Mexican Muralists. Let that sink in a little.
Whitney Museum News
March 11, 2022
80th Whitney Biennial
The 2022 Whitney Biennial “Quiet as It’s Kept” features sixty-three artists and collectives at the Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District, Apr 6 – Sep 5, 2022. whitney.org 🇨🇱🇫🇷🇲🇽🇹🇹🇺🇸🇻🇪
Day’s End (Pier 52)
David Hammons: Day’s End, a Whitney Museum public installation in Hudson River Park, was inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark’s legendary 1975 intervention on Pier 52. 🇨🇱
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The Year at The Whitney
April
2022
80th Whitney Biennial
The 2022 Whitney Biennial “Quiet as It’s Kept” features sixty-three artists and collectives at the Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District, Apr 6 – Sep 5, 2022. whitney.org 🇨🇱🇫🇷🇲🇽🇹🇹🇺🇸🇻🇪
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September
2022
Martine Gutierrez: Supremacy
In Martine Gutierrez: Supremacy, The Guatemalan American artist and LGBTQ+ rights activist questions whether American brand marketing promotes beauty and authenticity or just reinforces racial and gender stereotypes, at the Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District, Sep 2022 – Mar 2023. whitney.org 🇬🇹🏳️🌈
November
2022
No Existe Un Mundo Poshuracan: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
No Existe Un Mundo Poshuracan: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria is at the Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District, Nov 23, 2022 – Apr 23, 2023. whitney.org 🇵🇷
We work from the road, currently in Puerto Rico. Few Americans understand how Hurricane Maria knocked us into the Stone Age overnight.
We lost all electricity, phone, gas, water, gasoline, markets and government services overnight, and it wasn’t for a few days or weeks.
Help took months to arrive and in the mountains it took years. Five years later, recovery money is just starting to flow. We survived by working together.
The Whitney Story
The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Being a sculptor herself, Ms. Whitney recognized the difficulty that American contemporary artists had in exhibiting and selling their work. She began collecting and showing artists herself from 1907 to 1942.
In 1929, Ms. Whitney offered her collection with an endowment to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Upon being declined, Ms. Whitney founded The Whitney and opened the museum at another site in Greenwich Village in 1931. The museum moved to Midtown in 1954. In 1963 it moved to its iconic Marcel Breuer-designed Madison Avenue location in the Upper East Side. In 2015, The Whitney moved back to Greenwich Village.
In the past, The Whitney did not pay particular attention to American artists with a Latin heritage. Today, The Whitney sees America for what it has always been, a multicultural mix. That point of view is represented in both The Whitney’s permanent collection and exhibitions.
Previous Whitney Museum Exhibitions
Dave McKenzie: The Story I Tell Myself is at the Whitney in Meatpacking through Oct 4, 2021. 🇺🇸
Dawoud Bey: An American Project is at the Whitney in Meatpacking through Oct 3, 2021 whitney.org 🇺🇸
The Julie Mehretu retrospective at the Whitney in Meatpacking ends Aug 8, 2021 whitney.org 🇪🇹
The Whitney’s “Vida Americana” Exhibition is a Call to Arts
February 17, 2020 – January 31, 2021
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Meatpacking District, NYC
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Whitney Biennial 2019 shows the diversity of American art today
May 17 – Sep 22, 2019, Closed Tuesdays
MEATPACKING DISTRICT, NYC ~ The survey of the latest developments in U.S. art includes work by artists with an Argentine, Colombian, French, Indigenous, Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage
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Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture
July 13 – September 30, 2018
Closed Tuesdays
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Meatpacking District, Manhattan
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See how Indigenous cosmology suggests architecture which defines home and life itself
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Hélio Oiticica To Organize Delirium ask one of the great Brazilian artists
July 14 – October 1, 2017
WHITNEY MUSEUM
Greenwich Village, NYC
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Carmen Herrera “Paintings on Paper”
Cuban New Yorker
Lisson Gallery
504 West 24th St, Chelsea
May 3 – June 10, 2017
Whitney Biennial 2017
Mexican & Puerto Rican artists
Whitney Museum
99 Gansevoort, Meatpacking
March 17 – June 11, 2017
Raúl de Nieves is a New York-based sculptor and performance artist
2017 Whitney Biennial
Greenwich Village
March 17 – June 11, 2017
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Beatriz Santiago Muñoz ‘Fragile Mirrors’ at El Museo del Barrio
EAST HARLEM, Jan 11 – Apr 30, 2017 ~ Puerto Rican performance artist.
# puerto rican performance art exhibition
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Raúl de Nieves is a New York-based sculptor and performance artist
2017 Whitney Biennial
Greenwich Village
March 17 – June 11, 2017
Continue Reading Raúl de Nieves is a New York-based sculptor and performance artist
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz ‘Fragile Mirrors’ at El Museo del Barrio
EAST HARLEM, Jan 11 – Apr 30, 2017 ~ Puerto Rican performance artist.
# puerto rican performance art exhibition
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