Whitney Museum of American Art
Ages 19-25: $12
Fri: 1 pm – 9 pm
The Whitney maintains one of the world's foremost collections of 20th-century American art. The museum mounts about 15 exhibitions a year, including single-artist and group shows, historical surveys and lifetime retrospectives. Lectures, seminars and symposia are an integral part of the museum's programming.
The Whitney Biennial is an invitational showcasing works by living American artists. Started in 1932, it has often been the object of much critical controversy and public squabbling.
Fri 6-9 pm pay what you wish
- Directions: Subway: 6 to 77th Street
- ADA Compliant Restrooms
- Archive: Works on and by American artists; open by appointment only, call (212) 570-3628.
- Audio Guides
- Box Office
- Coat Check
- Disability Access: Accessible restrooms on 2nd floor.
- Disability Assistance: Access Services Desk is in lobby. You may also contact (212) 570-7789 or accessfeedback@whitney.org for information.
Hearing: See Access Services Desk for assistive listening devices (ALD) for programs and tours. Free American Sign Language interpreted tours first Saturday of each month (tour is voice-interpreted and preceded by a welcome reception at 3 pm). Film & Video Gallery has infrared assistive listening system. Works with ALD system are identified with an ALD label.
Mobility: Wheelchairs are free of charge at coat check area.
Vision: Large-print labels and brochures are at the Access Services Desk; call (212) 570-7789 to request publications in Braille. Free verbal description tours offered monthly or by request. - Gift Shops: Store Next Door at 943 Madison Avenue: furniture, jewelry and household objects by leading American artists, architects, craftsmen and designers; also art books, exhibition catalogs and posters; open 10 am-6 pm daily, Thurs until 8 pm.
- On-Site Food: The cafe Sandwiched is open while the permanent dining space on the lower level of the museum is being renovated (set to open in fall of 2010).
- On-Site Parking: On streets or in commercial lots nearby
- Reference Center: Works on and by American artists; open by appointment only, call (212) 570-3628
- Space Rental
- Special Education
- Tours
See more at NYCkidsArts
Whitney Museum of American Art Listings
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Thurs, Oct 6, 2011 – Sun, Feb 12, 2012 This exhibition features works in painting, drawing, photography and printmaking juxtaposed in ways that show how artists developed degrees of reality where the imagination held more or less sway.
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Ongoing 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.
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Ongoing 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.
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