Whitney Museum of American Art

🎧 Artist Mark Armijo McKnight has created a digital mixtape to accompany his current exhibition in the Whitney's Lobby gallery. Available on Spotify, the playlist includes music that either inspired or speaks to the existential themes present in his exhibition: death, landscape, light, dark, time, beauty, sun, and sky. Learn more about Armijo McKnight's connection to music and listen to the playlist here: https://lnkd.in/eapSCmAK. Decreation is on view in our free Lobby gallery through January 5, 2025. — Installation view of Mark Armijo McKnight: Decreation (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, August 24, 2024–January 5, 2025). Without a Song (solo ii), 2024

Free Second Sundays returns this coming Sunday, September 8! In addition to free admission all day, we'll have artmaking activities, Story Times with NYPL The New York Public Library, tours, and a dance class inspired by our upcoming exhibition Edges of Ailey. See you there! Tickets: https://bit.ly/47tGW35 — ¡Los segundos domingos gratuitos vuelven el próximo domingo 8 de septiembre! Además de entrada gratuita durante todo el día, tendremos actividades artísticas, Story Times con NYPL, visitas guiadas y una clase de danza inspirada en nuestra próxima exposición Fronteras de Ailey. ¡Nos vemos allí! Boletos: https://bit.ly/47tGW35

As we count down the days until Edges of Ailey opens on September 25, we're thrilled to share The New York Times's preview of the exhibition. Edges of Ailey, Gia Kourlas writes, "is a one-of-a-kind exhibition that looks at [Alvin] Ailey in all his dimensions, personal and artistic, as well as the culture that he shaped. One of the most ambitious shows the museum has ever presented — six years in the making and bigger than any Whitney Biennial — it tracks the development of an American art form through Ailey's singular vision. Here is a chance to better understand the man behind that vision, to watch his dances with new eyes." Read the NYT Fall Preview below, and get your tickets now at whitney.org.

Glenn Ligon's Rückenfigur (2009) is back on view in our lobby! About the neon sculpture, director Scott Rothkopf said: "There's a sense of vulnerability in this piece—you see the back of this sign in a way, these wires that dangle down. You see the fragile connections between these letters, which I think suggests the sense of America, this country, as a confederacy that's both united and sometimes divided. And I think that all of those things, in a way, function metaphorically for where this country is at this moment." Visit our first floor—including the lobby gallery and Whitney Shop—any time during Museum hours to see this work for free.

Get your dancing shoes on! Edges of Ailey is coming to the Whitney very soon. Follow along in our Instagram Stories as we count down the 25 days of Ailey leading up to the exhibition's opening on September 25. Edges of Ailey is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey. We can't wait for you to see it! Get your tickets now: https://lnkd.in/ezNvfywK

"What does it mean to belong to a country whose very existence is precipitated on the oppression of your people?"—Kiyan Williams In a very special edition of our podcast minisode series, teens from the Whitney's Youth Insights (YI) Leaders program interviewed 2024 #WhitneyBiennial artist Kiyan Williams. The teens talk to Williams about what the artist's two sculptures mean especially when seen together and at this particular moment in time. Listen to the full minisode: https://lnkd.in/eQ3VVJR3

A brand new work has arrived on our billboard! Across from the Museum on the facade on Horatio Street is a new commission by Raque Ford. A little space for you right under my shoe (2024) uses an excerpt from a poem by Ford that invokes the conflicted feelings that can come with romantic longing and desire for connection with others—when holding someone close can teeter on crushing them. Ford plays with the scale and site-specificity of the billboard, as the imposing image of stomping shoes hovers over the pedestrian viewer below. Read more about this work, which is on view through March 2025: https://lnkd.in/gmTivZZT — Installation by North Shore Neon

As part of the 2024 #WhitneyBiennial, People Who Stutter Create mobilized the Whitney's exhibition billboard at 95 Horatio Street, across the street from the Museum and the south end of the High Line. The artists, all of whom stutter, created this public artwork that celebrates the transformational space of dysfluency, a term that can encompass stuttering and other communication differences. In this podcast minisode, we hear from all five artists about their artwork titled Stuttering Can Create Time. Listen to the full episode at the link in our profile, and catch the billboard before it goes off view at the end of this weekend: https://lnkd.in/eQ3VVJR3 Speakers: Jia Bin Delicia Daniels JJJJJerome Ellis Conor Foran Kristel Kubart

This painting by Eldzier Cortor recently entered the Whitney's collection and along with it came a fascinating story. Curator Jennie Goldstein gives us some background on Day Clean (c. 1945–1946) and how it came to the Whitney. You can now see this work in our seventh floor collection galleries.

Sunset with CENTO 🧡🌇 If you're heading to our outdoor terraces this Free Friday Night, be sure to visit CENTO, Nancy Baker Cahill's AR creature on view on your phone. Download Baker Cahill's 4th Wall mobile app to meet CENTO, and add your own feathers to the creature's body. Each of the 12 feathers you can choose in the app is associated with a different functionality related to the creature's evolutionary survival, such as communication, navigation, energy conversion, or memory bank. Read more about the project, hear from the artist, and see how CENTO has grown through visitor participation: https://lnkd.in/gyQudw4s