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Venue Display 945 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021 Venue Type: Museum Neighborhood: upper east side Is this your venue? Click here to claim this venue page	Whitney Museum of American Art

> QUICK FACTS

WEBSITE:

http://www.whitney.org

OPEN HOURS:

Wed - Sun 11-6, Fri 11-9

PHONE:

1 800 WHITNEY

OTHER PHONE:

(212) 570-3614 Museum Store

COST:

Adults $15 Seniors and Students $10 Fri from 6-9 pay-what-you-wish

TAGS:

mixed-media, contemporary, Blue-chip

> CURRENT EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

January 30th - June 1st, 2009	The Whitney's Collection
	Group Show

> STATEMENT

The Whitney Museum of American Art is among the blue-chip circle of New York institutions for contemporary art. It's focus is on American art and it is most famous for it's Whitney Biennial a large survey shows which is seem as a seminal exhibition showing the current direction of contemporary art.

> UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

> PAST EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

May, 2008	Polaroids: Mapplethorpe
	Robert Mapplethorpe

Apr, 2008	Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Gretchen Skogerson
	Gretchen Skogerson

Apr, 2008	Seminars with Artists, Multiple Edition: Eduardo Sarabia
	Eduardo Sarabia

Apr, 2008	Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Carol Bove
	Carol Bove

Apr, 2008	Seminars with Artists: Olivier Mosset, Amy Granat, Drew Heitzler
	Amy Granat, Drew Heitzler, Olivier Mosset

Apr, 2008	Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Rashawn Griffin
	Rashawn Griffin

Apr, 2008	Seminars with Artists: Ellen Harvey
	Ellen Harvey

Apr, 2008	Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Kevin Jerome Everson
	Kevin Jerome Everson

Apr, 2008	Seminars with Artists: Lisa Sigal
	Lisa Sigal

Mar, 2008	Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Michael Smith
	Michael Smith

Mar, 2008	Seminars with Artists, Multiple Edition: Ry Rocklen
	Ry Rocklen

Mar, 2008	Seminars with Artists: Matt Mullican
	Matt Mullican

Mar, 2008	Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Mika Tajima/New Humans
	New Humans, Mika Tajima

Mar, 2008	Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Marina Rosenfeld
	Marina Rosenfeld

Mar, 2008	2008 Whitney Biennial
	Group Show

Feb, 2008	Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster
	Charles Demuth

Jan, 2008	Gallery Talk: Liz Kotz and Lawrence Weiner
	Lawrence Weiner

2007
Nov, 2007	Gallery Talk: Donna De Salvo and Lawrence Weiner
	Lawrence Weiner

Nov, 2007	As Far as the Eye Can See
	Lawrence Weiner

Oct, 2007	Piotr Uklanski: Summer Love Film Screenings
	Piotr Uklanski

Oct, 2007	Two Years
	Group Show

Oct, 2007	Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
	Kara Walker

Sep, 2007	Initial Public Offerings (IPO): New Objects, New Audiences
	Eric Doeringer

Sep, 2007	Undone: Tom Holmes, Tony Matelli, Eileen Quinlan, and Heather Rowe
	Tom Holmes, Tony Matelli, Eileen Quinlan, Heather Rowe

Sep, 2007	Neither New nor Correct: New Work by Mark Bradford
	Mark Bradford

Sep, 2007	Montage, Film, and Still Photography
	Danny Lyon

Sep, 2007	Alright Now: Escapism and Activism in the American Scene
	Todd Gitlin, Greil Marcus

Jul, 2007	Summer of Love Film Series: Andy Warhol Films Part II
	Andy Warhol

Jul, 2007	Summer of Love Film Series: Andy Warhol Films Part I
	Andy Warhol

Jun, 2007	Rudolf Stingel
	Rudolf Stingel

Jun, 2007	Curator's Close-Up: On Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
	Taryn Simon

Jun, 2007	Initial Public Offerings (I.P.O.): New Objects, New Audiences
	Allison Smith

May, 2007	Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era
	Group Show

May, 2007	Architecture Dialogues: Li Hu
	Li Hu

Apr, 2007	Seminars with Artists: Lyle Ashton Harris
	Lyle Ashton Harris

Apr, 2007	Lincoln Kirstein
	Walker Evans, Elie Nadelman, Pavel Tchelitchew

Apr, 2007	Modernisms
	Group Show

Apr, 2007	On Gordon Matta-Clark's Photo-Collages: Briony Fer


Apr, 2007	On Lorna Simpson: Helaine Posner
	Lorna Simpson

Apr, 2007	On the Photography of Performance: Peggy Phelan


Apr, 2007	On the Documentary Turn: Geoffrey Batchen, Okwui Enwezor, Coco Fusco
	Geoffrey Batchen, Okwui Enwezor, Coco Fusco

Apr, 2007	Seminars with Artists: Trisha Brown
	Trisha Brown

Apr, 2007	Films of Gordon Matta-Clark


Mar, 2007	On "You Are the Measure": Elisabeth Sussman


Mar, 2007	On Other Architectures: Carlos Basualdo


Mar, 2007	On Artists' Communities: Richard Nonas


Mar, 2007	"The first act of doing is moving. Giving it a good heave.": RoseLee Goldberg, Joan Simon, Lebbeus Woods


Mar, 2007	Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
	Taryn Simon

Mar, 2007	Lorna Simpson
	Lorna Simpson

Feb, 2007	You Are the Measure
	Gordon Matta-Clark

Feb, 2007	Terence Koh
	Terence Koh

Feb, 2007	Lights, Camera Action: Artist's Films for the Cinema
	Group Show