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Whitney Museum of American Art

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 we look.

Like America, the museum is changing. The Whitney gets it and is leading the charge towards inclusion in the art world. It is now in the vanguard redefining the boundaries of American art to be inclusive of race, gender, social class, and region. 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

The Whitney Biennial 2022 is at the Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District, April – August 2022.

David Hammons: Day’s End, a Whitney Museum public installation in Hudson River Park, was inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark’s famous intervention on Pier 52 in 1975. 🇨🇱

Whitney Museum Tickets

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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 is, 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 🇪🇹

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