NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

The Whitney Collection

ManhattanOngoing

Works from the permanent collection explore the fragmentation of abstraction in early modernism, realism as it focuses on people and society, and the convergence of the mind and the body.

• Artists Making Photographs: Smith, Raushenberg, Samaras, Ruscha, Warhol

  Whitney Museum of American Art

  ManhattanOngoing

  The ascension of photography to a high art form is the subject of this exhibition featuring works created between 1930 and 1970 by numerous artists.

• The Whitney Collection

  Whitney Museum of American Art

  ManhattanOngoing

  Works from the permanent collection explore the fragmentation of abstraction in early modernism, realism as it focuses on people and society, and the convergence of the mind and the body.

• Singular Visions

  Whitney Museum of American Art

  ManhattanOngoing

  Singular Visions presents 12 postwar highlights from the museum’s holdings, each in its own space, in order to create intimate and compelling encounters with a single work of art. Some of the works on view require their own spaces because they are large or comprise many parts, while others explore difficult topics or emotions that one might wish to consider in relative isolation.

• Designing the Whitney of the Future

  Whitney Museum of American Art

  ManhattanOngoing

  In May 2011, the Whitney Museum broke ground on a new building designed by Renzo Piano, located between the High Line and the Hudson River Park in the Meatpacking District. In this exhibition, renderings and a model are paired with artist Lawrence Weiner’s language piece HERE THERE & EVERYWHERE.

• Three Landscapes: A Film Installation by Roy Lichtenstein

  Whitney Museum of American Art

  ManhattanThurs, Oct 6, 2011 – Sun, Feb 12, 2012

  Three obscure films are testimony to Roy Lichtenstein’s experimentation with form and his fascination with cinema.