Whitney Museum of American Art collects modern, post-war and contemporary art of the United States.
The Whitney Biennial is a major event in American art.
The Whitney’s concept of American Art has evolved to the point that it has become a thought leader in American art history.
That makes it one of the most important art museums in the United States.
They are publishing a lot of information in both English and Spanish.
Latin Culture at the Whitney Museum
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Celebrates 50 Years of African American Modern Dance at NJPAC
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Whitney Biennial 2024 is Even Better Than the Real Thing
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The Whitney’s “Vida Americana” Exhibition is a Call to Arts
February 17, 2020 – January 31, 2021
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Whitney Museum News
MARCH
American Art Biennial
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, one of the most important surveys of contemporary American art, opens with 69 artists and two collectives; at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District; on March 20 – August 11, 2024. whitney.org 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇸🇻 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇹🇹
SEPTEMBER
Art of an African American Modern Dance
“Edges of Ailey,” the first large-scale museum exhibition about the life, work, and legacy of Alvin Ailey, founder of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; is at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District; from September 25, 2024 through February 2025. whitney.org 🇺🇸
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David Hammons’ “Day’s End,” a Whitney Museum installation over an old pier in Hudson River Park, was inspired by Chilean American artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s legendary Pier 52 intervention in 1975. whitney.org 🇨🇱
About the Whitney
The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Being a sculptor herself, 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, Whitney offered her collection with an endowment to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Upon being declined, she founded the Whitney and opened the museum in Greenwich Village in 1931. The museum moved to Midtown in 1954. In 1963 it moved to its iconic Marcel Breuer-designed Madison Avenue building 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.
The Whitney is leading the charge towards inclusion in the art world. It used to be the last place you would look for Latin, Indigenous or African art, but now it’s one of the first places. The Whitney is rewriting art history to be more inclusive of race, gender, region, and social class. After all, art is art.
In February of 2020, the Whitney said 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. 🇲🇽
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