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945 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Venue Type: Museum

Neighborhood:
upper east side



Whitney Museum of American Art
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> 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
 
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