Fall in love with American art at the Whitney Museum

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

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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.