Admission to the Whitney is free for all visitors every Friday evenings from 5–10 pm. Enjoy art, drinks, special programming, music, and views of the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, and more ...

James Augustus Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 – May 15, 1983) was an American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from ...

Hollis Sigler (March 2, 1948 – March 29, 2001) was an American artist. She received several Arts Lifetime Achievement awards as both an artist and an educator, including the Distinguished Artist Award ...

James Valerio (born 1938) is a U.S. artist specializing in photorealist paintings. Valerio was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving a BfA in 1966 and an MfA in 1968. His ...

Sue Williams is an American artist born in 1954. She came to prominence in the early 1980s, with works that echoed and argued with the dominant postmodern feminist aesthetic of the time. In the years ...

Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zurkow is part of a multiyear partnership with Hyundai Motor in support of an annual site-specific installation on the Whitney Museum's fifth-floor outdoor gallery.

Edges of Ailey includes a suite of performances in the Museum’s third-floor theater. Alongside the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II, the performance program will feature an array of ...

Mickalene Thomas (born January 28, 1971) is a contemporary African-American visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Thomas's collage work is ...

Elaine Reichek (born 1943) is a New York-based visual artist. Much of her work concerns the history of the embroidered sampler. Through her pieces of hand and machine embroidery and digital sewing ...

Livia Corona Benjamin (born 1975) is a Mexican artist that centers her work on the relationship of human experience and the man-made. Her recent work is artisanal but combines multi genre practice of ...

G. Peter Jemison (born 1945) is a Native American artist, curator, educator, and author. He is a citizen of the Seneca Nation of Indians He is the founding curator of the American Indian Community ...

Charles August Albert Dellschau (4 June 1830 Brandenburg, Prussia – 20 April 1923 Houston, Texas) was a Prussian-American who gained posthumous fame after the discovery of his large scrapbooks that ...