“This fall, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Sixties Surreal, a sweeping, ambitious, revisionist look at American art from 1958 to 1972 through the lens of the ‘surreal,’ both inherited and reinvented. Opening on September 24, the exhibition features the work of 111 artists… Read More
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Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith at Whitney Museum of American Art, October 4 – January 28, 2024
“Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art from October 4, 2023, through January 28, 2024, is the first solo exhibition of artist, filmmaker, musicologist, collector, and radical nonconformist Harry Smith (1923–1991). Best known… Read More
Rachel Harrison Life Hack at Whitney Museum of American Art, through January 12, 2020
“Rachel Harrison’s (b. 1966) first full-scale survey tracks the development of her career over the past twenty-five years, incorporating room-size installations, sculpture, photography, and drawing. Harrison’s complex works—in which readymades collude with invented forms—bring together the breadth of art history, the impurities of politics and… Read More
Nick Mauss: Transmissions at Whitney Museum of American Art, March 16 – May 14, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “For this exhibition, Nick Mauss (b. 1980, New York, NY) explores the history of American modernist ballet, continuing a hybrid mode of working he has pursued for a decade in which the roles of curator, artist, choreographer, scholar, and performer converge.… Read More
Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World at Whitney Museum of American Art, November 3, 2017 – January 28, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “One of the most inventive American artists working today, Jimmie Durham (b. 1940) has produced wryly political art over the last four decades. Using materials as varied as animal skulls, oil barrels, stone, and olive wood, he approaches his subjects with a potent blend… Read More
Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium at Whitney Museum of American Art, July 14 – October 1, 2017
“Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium is the first full-scale U.S. retrospective in two decades of the Brazilian artist’s work. One of the most original artists of the twentieth century, Oiticica (1937—1980) made art that awakens us to our bodies, our senses, our feelings about being… Read More






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