Whitney Museum of American Art

👁️ The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is officially open on our eighth floor ✨ Inspired by vivid dreams and visions, Minnie Evans made her first drawing in 1935 after the death of her beloved grandmother. During the subsequent decades, the artist created hundreds of radiant pencil and crayon drawings, oil paintings, and collages that combined imagery from her Afro-Caribbean heritage, mythology, religion, popular culture, decorative arts, and the natural environment of her native Wilmington, North Carolina. Organized by the High Museum of Art, the retrospective is on view through January 10, 2027. — Minnie Evans, Untitled (Statuary, Stars, and Flora), 1965 Oil, gouache, and pencil on paper 12 × 9 in.(30.48 × 22.86 cm). Collection of Wendy Williams, New York. © The Estate of Minnie Evans. Photo: Christopher Burke Minnie Evans, Untitled (Paisley Design), ca. 1950s, graphite, ink, and crayon on paper, 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (22.2 x 29.84 cm). High Museum of Art, Atlanta, bequest of Chuck and Harvie Abney. © The Estate of Minnie Evans Minnie Evans, Untitled (detail), 1946. Mixed media on paper, 11 1/2 × 9 in. (29.2 × 22.9 cm). The Keen Collection, ME 2 2D. © The Estate of Minnie Evans. Photo: Karen Mauch

Breaking news 💥 Our new exhibition lineup through fall '27 is here! Here's what's coming up: Roy Lichtenstein: Like New Opens October 11, 2026 This major exhibition examines one of the defining artists of the Pop art movement who turned the visual language of mass culture, comics, advertising, consumer goods, and commercial printing into some of the most recognizable images of the twentieth century. The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans Opens August 22, 2026 Just over 50 years after the Whitney presented Minnie Evans's groundbreaking first solo museum exhibition in 1975, this exhibition, organized by the @highmuseumofart, reexamines of one of the most extraordinary self-taught artists of the twentieth century. Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 Opens September 5, 2026 This focused exhibition in our third floor gallery highlights rarely seen works from the last year of the pioneering Pop artist’s life. Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes Opens September 19, 2026 For this lobby gallery exhibition, artist @savecoumba is developing an immersive installation that critically examines the development of nuclear power and the African resource extraction that has sustained it. artport: A History of Internet Art Opens November 21, 2026 This exhibition marks the 25th anniversary of artport, the Whitney’s online gallery space for commissions of net art, which launched in 2001. Farah Al Qasimi: TAILSPIN Opens January 30, 2027 Filmed in between Michigan, West Texas, and the East Coast, @frequentlyaskedquestion's video TAILSPIN traces the long-standing relationship between American industry, oil, car culture, and Arab immigration. Sonya Kelliher-Combs: TITIQ/MARK Opens February 6, 2027 TITIQ/MARK highlights nearly two decades of Kelliher-Combs's explorations of history, cultural continuity, self-determination, and land use through her inventive approaches to artmaking. Juan Sánchez: States of Liberation Opens October 2027 States of Liberation will offer a comprehensive look at Sánchez’s expansive practice and his sustained engagement with identity, collective memory, colonialism, resistance, and the possibility of social transformation.

🏋 The grassroots film initiative @kekahiwahi filmed this satirical resistance training workout on the shore of Hawai'i's Kealakekua Bay. It was on this site in 1779 that the high chief Kalani‘ōpu‘u escaped a kidnapping by Captain James Cook, the British Royal Navy officer whose crews became known for spreading diseases to Indigenous people throughout the South Pacific. Today the bay is a major destination for tourists. 20-minute workout is on view in the #WhitneyBiennial through August 23. — La iniciativa cinematográfica popular kekahi wahi filmó este entrenamiento satírico de resistencia en la costa de Bahía de Kealakekua en la isla de Hawái. Fue en este mismo lugar que en 1779, el máximo jefe Kalani‘ōpu‘u escapó de un intento de secuestro a manos del Capitán James Cook, el oficial de la Marina Real Británica cuyas tropas eran conocidas por propagar enfermedades entre los pueblos indígenas del Pacífico Sur. Hoy la bahía es un destino concurrido por turistas. Entrenamiento de 20 minutos está en exhibición hasta el 23 de agosto. — kekahi wahi (Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and Drew K. Broderick) and Bradley Capello, 20-minute workout (excerpt), 2024–2025. Digital video, sound, color; 23:08 min. Released by Aupuni Space, starring Maddie Biven, Josh Tengan, Lise Michelle Suguitan Childers, Reise Kochi, Sean Connelly, and YOU. Kealakekua, Kaʻawaloa, Kona, Hawaiʻi. © kekahi wahi. Courtesy the artists

✨ Tickets are now on sale for Roy Lichtenstein: Like New ✨ Experience the first major New York exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein in 30+ years. Featuring more than 130 works—including many of his most celebrated paintings—Roy Lichtenstein: Like New takes a deeper look at the artist who transformed comics, advertising, and popular culture into groundbreaking art. Like New opens to Members on October 8 and the public on October 11. Read more about the show and get your tickets now: https://lnkd.in/eU-fC2pV — Roy Lichtenstein, Girl in Window (Study for World's Fair Mural), 1963 (detail). Oil and acrylic on canvas, 68 1/8 × 56 in. (173 × 142.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President 2002.254. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2026

2026 #WhitneyBiennial meets 2026 World Cup! Biennial artist Leo Castañeda's Camoflux World Inventory (2026) is now installed across from the Museum as part of Arts 14C's public art project featuring 23 large-scale soccer-ball sculptures across the five boroughs and New Jersey. Come check it out through Labor Day.

No lying down No pitching tents No amplified sound No annoying behavior David L. Johnson's Whitney Biennial work Rule consists of the removal of code-of-conduct signs from privately owned public spaces (POPS). POPS emerged in New York in 1961 following a zoning resolution that permitted private developers to construct taller buildings in exchange for creating nearby park-like spaces for public use. The private owners who control these spaces often set rules that are much more restrictive than those governing city parks and other public places. The use of these code-of-conduct signs also intensified after Occupy Wall Street’s takeover of Zucotti Park in the fall of 2011. Rule is on view now through August 23 in the Biennial. Listen to Johnson's full audio guide stop for this work: https://bit.ly/4elNmIo

It's not every day that art gets inflated in the galleries. ���️ Pat Oleszko first began creating her "inflatables" in the early 1980s as a way to make large-scale sculptures without relying on the need for constructed, heavy armatures. This work titled Blowhard debuted as a 1995 commission for the World Trade Center Plaza, where strong winds nearly blew it away. The artist sews these sculptures in sections, which she then connects, unfurls, and inflates on her roof. Blowhard is on view in Whitney Biennial 2026 through August 23.

Spring has sprung and a new season of Free Friday Nights is here 🌷 Join us every week on Fridays from 5 to 10 pm for free admission, music, dancing, cocktails, sunset views, and access to the Whitney Biennial.

✨ Watch as the Mabel Dwight: Cool Head, Warm Heart comes to life, including hand painted signage by Olive Panter. Through this democratic medium of printmaking, artist Mabel Dwight captured the rhythms of NYC life—crowds, commuters, vendors—with sweeping lines, dramatic light, and a deep sense of empathy. Dwight came to New York at the turn of the century as an illustrator and later fell in with the downtown artists who frequented the Whitney Studio Club, a precursor to the Whitney we know today. All Dwight's subjects, whether selling balloons, strolling home, or waiting for the day to pass, possess the inner glow of what the artist called "the stuff of life."

📟 Paging the squad! Mixtape is back this week with Volume 4 during Free Friday Nights. The Friday’s event is co-hosted by Harlem visual artist and musician Darold Brown (FERG) and Mixtape founder DJ April Hunt, featuring vibrant DJ sets all night long, a dynamic conversation about FERG’s artistic journey, food and drinks for purchase from Frenchette Bakery, a photobooth, and more—all for free. 5–10 pm Free admission for all 6–8:30 pm DJ set by TGUT 7–8:15 pm Conversation with FERG and April Hunt, free but ticketed 8:30–10 pm DJ set by DJ April Hunt Reserve your free tickets: https://lnkd.in/eqKMdvvA