NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

Collecting Biennials

ManhattanSat, Jan 16, 2010 – Sun, Nov 28, 2010

Biennial exhibition works of the past---by famous and not-so-famous artists---are on view on the fifth floor during the 2010 Biennial.

• 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.

• Collecting Biennials

  Whitney Museum of American Art

  ManhattanSat, Jan 16, 2010 – Sun, Nov 28, 2010

  Biennial exhibition works of the past---by famous and not-so-famous artists---are on view on the fifth floor during the 2010 Biennial.

• Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield

  Whitney Museum of American Art

  ManhattanThurs, June 24, 2010 – Sun, Oct 17, 2010

  Working almost exclusively in watercolor, Burchfield’s primary subject was landscape: his garden, the views from his windows, snow turning to slush, the sounds of insects and bells and vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, the experience of entering a forest at dusk, to name but a few.

• Christian Marclay: Festival

  Whitney Museum of American Art

  ManhattanThurs, July 1, 2010 – Sun, Sept 26, 2010

  Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955) is known for his distinctive fusion of image and sound. Celebrated as a pioneer of turntablism, Marclay transforms sound and music into visual and physical forms through performance, collage, sculpture, large-scale installations, photography and video.