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Roy Lichtenstein’s history with the Whitney runs deep, including his feature in nine(!) Whitney Biennials and Annuals be...
09/10/2026

Roy Lichtenstein’s history with the Whitney runs deep, including his feature in nine(!) Whitney Biennials and Annuals between 1965 and 1991, followed by numerous exhibitions over the years, and now our upcoming exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: Like New—the first major New York survey of Lichtenstein in 30+ years. Take a look back at Lichtenstein at the Whitney through the years.

Did you know that Lichtenstein also made films? In 2011, the Whitney displayed Three Landscapes, a little-known triple screen film installation by the artist, which had been unseen since its showing at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1971. Check it out in slide 4.

We’re counting down the days! Roy Lichtenstein: Like New opens on October 11.
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Installation view of 1991 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 2–June 23, 1991). Left to right: Roy Lichtenstein, Interior with African Mask, 1991; Interior with Mirrored Wall, 1991. Photo: Geoffrey Clements
Installation view of Po***ck to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, December 7, 2000–February 10, 2002)
Installation view of Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 29, 2006- September 3, 2006). Photo: Sheldan C. Collins
Installation view of Three Landscapes: A Film Installation by Roy Lichtenstein (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 6, 2011–February 12, 2012). Photo: Bill Orcutt
Installation view of Shaping a Collection: Five Decades of Gifts (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 17–October 19, 2014). Photo: Sheldan Collins
Installation view of America Is Hard to See (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 1–September 27, 2015). (from left to right) James Rosenquist, Broome Street Trucks After Herman Melville, 1963, (64.20); Roy Lichtenstein, Little Big Painting, 1965, (66.2). Photo: Ronald Amstutz

The ✏️September edition of Free Second Sundays is almost here! Join us on Sunday, September 13, for a full day of 🌟free ...
09/08/2026

The ✏️September edition of Free Second Sundays is almost here! Join us on Sunday, September 13, for a full day of 🌟free programming, including:

🎟️ Free admission all day
📚 Storytime with Libreria Barco de Papel
❤️ All Ages Artmaking: Family Emblems with Arder, in partnership with American LGBTQ+ Museum
☀️All Ages Artmaking: Solar Sounders with Alex Nathanson
🌳 Hard Rock Maple: Performance and Conversation with , in partnership with American LGBTQ+ Museum
💡 Tours and talks in English y en español

Link in bio to read more and reserve your free tickets.

🔳🟢Now open in our third floor gallery! Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 is a focused exhibition highlighting rarely seen works fro...
09/05/2026

🔳🟢Now open in our third floor gallery! Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 is a focused exhibition highlighting rarely seen works from the last year of the pioneering Pop artist’s life. Echoing and expanding on key throughlines from the upcoming exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, presented on the Museum’s 5th floor, Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 includes prints, photographs, and sculptural maquettes along with drawing and collage studies for a number of unrealized projects.
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Roy Lichtenstein, Bellagio Hotel Mural: Still Life with Reclining N**e (Study), 1997. Collage and graphite pencil on board: sheet, 38 5/8 × 54 5/16 in. (98.1 × 138 cm); image, 36 1/2 × 52 3/16 in. (92.7 × 132.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Roy Lichtenstein Study Collection, gift of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation 2019.79. © Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, all rights reserved

Get a glimpse into Andy Warhol’s day-to-day life in Andy Warhol Family Album, on view in our seventh floor galleries thr...
09/03/2026

Get a glimpse into Andy Warhol’s day-to-day life in Andy Warhol Family Album, on view in our seventh floor galleries through October 19. The photographs in this exhibition come from one of six Holson albums containing hundreds of snapshots Warhol maintained as a personal archive and named for the brand’s generic product type: the “family album.”

The images range from posed portraits and candid shots of guests visiting his home in Montauk, Long Island, to documentation of his travels to Europe and even pictures of dogs.

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Andy Warhol, “White Dog”, and “Archie and Dog”, 1973, from Family Album. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. 2014.29.78, 2014.29.142. © 2026 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of The Andy Warhol Foundation.

🔴⚪️ “I’ve sought for truth of art with an ambition and fought like hell all my life to accomplish my purpose as a human ...
08/27/2026

🔴⚪️ “I’ve sought for truth of art with an ambition and fought like hell all my life to accomplish my purpose as a human being. Even after I finish my life, I’d like to keep telling posterity about my way of art. I want younger people, or everyone, to talk about my enthusiasm reaching to space and also, my art as a token of my life even after my death.”—Yayoi Kusama in conversation with Tate in 2015

We are deeply saddened by the news of the passing of beloved artist Yayoi Kusama at age 97. We honor her today by remembering her 2012 exhibition at the Whitney’s Madison Avenue building.
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Installation views of Yayoi Kusama (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 12–September 30, 2012). Artwork © YAYOI KUSAMA. Photos: Sheldan C. Collins

08/25/2026

They’re obsessed with marine life. 🧜‍♀️

In Martine and Julio Torres~*’s new work commissioned for the 2026 , audiences are invited under the sea.

Directed and written by Emmy® nominated, award-winner Julio Torres, Martine Gutierrez stars as Marina, a New York City seawench on a journey of romance and self-discovery.

The performances will take place August 27–30 at our neighbor Little Island’s waterfront amphitheater. More info at the link in our bio.

08/23/2026

Takis, physical endurance, sunscreen. As we wind down this year’s , we present a second episode of Biennial Confidential with Biennial curatorial team members Beatriz Cifuentes Lacayo and Carina Martinez.

Please note the following closing dates for this year’s show:
Floor 5 will remain on view through today, August 23.
Floor 1 will remain on view through September 7.
Floor 6 will remain on view through October 12.

08/19/2026

We’re drawing on the walls in preparation for The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans 🖍️

The exhibition—opening this Saturday, August 22—will debut just over 50 years after the Whitney presented Minnie Evans’s groundbreaking first solo museum exhibition in 1975.

Evans’s radiant drawings, paintings, and collages are inspired by dreams, spiritual revelation, mythology, popular culture, and the natural world.

The Lost World opens to Members today and the public this Saturday, August 22. The exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art.

It's the last week to experience the fifth floor of 2026.The Biennial asks not only what is being made but also what i...
08/17/2026

It's the last week to experience the fifth floor of 2026.

The Biennial asks not only what is being made but also what it means to name something "American" at all. In its 2026 edition, contemporary artists and collectives take over the Museum and share their stories across film, performance, painting, sculpture, digital art, and more.

See for yourself the exhibition everyone's talking about.

Floor 5 will remain on view through August 23.
Floor 1 will remain on view through September 7.
Floor 6 will remain on view through October 12.
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Installation views of Whitney Biennial 2026 (Whitney Museum of American Art, March 8–August 2026). Michelle Lopez, Pandemonium, 2025. Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Until we became fire and fire us, 2023–ongoing. Young Joon Kwak, Divine Dance of Soft Revolt (Anna, Travis, Me), 2024. Leo Castañeda, Camoflux: Levels & Bosses Video Game Installation Incendio Igapó, 2026. Taína H. Cruz, This Counts, 2026. Photos: Gus Powell

08/14/2026

Sula Bermudez-Silverman (sula)’s work draws on the histories of found objects, taking something that may seem familiar and reframing it.

For 2026, Bermudez-Silverman made sculptures by blowing glass into iron tools, including horse stirrups, different kinds of traps, and a bull nose puller.

08/07/2026

In his podcast minisode, Frank Benson describes his hyperrealistic sculpture titled Castaway currently on view on the Floor 8 terrace. Benson, who mostly works in sculpture and photography, delves into exactly what a castaway is, and what “detritus” is used for the sculpture to come to life.

Listen to the full minisode at the link in our bio.

08/06/2026

💥Biennial Confidential💥 Answering your juicy questions with curatorial team members Beatriz Cifuentes and Carina Martinez.

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