Meg Onli, who works at the museum and co-curated the 2024 Whitney Biennial, will collaborate with the choreographer and performing arts director Zack Winokur on the next edition

A renovation project at the historic building—the original home of the Whitney Museum of American Art—has uncovered works by Robert E. Locher and Cecily Brown

Unionised staff at the New York City museum have voted to go on strike on 5 October if there is no progress in contract negotiations with museum leadership

Many patterns emerge across the 56 participants’ works, from an interest in complicating our understandings of US history and interventionism, to new approaches to looking at and making images

Guests arriving at the recent Whitney Gala were greeted by members of UAW Local 2110 handing out pins and flyers as they seek their second labour contract

Check out our top picks from the many exhibitions taking place across the city

The exhibition, co-curated by Whitney Museum of American Art staffers Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, will feature artists from 25 states and Puerto Rico, plus “places marked by the reach of US power”

The cancellation of a performance addressing the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza has also sparked an open letter by alumni of the programme

The artists, members of the institution’s current Independent Study Program cohort, decried the decision as an act of cowardice, while a museum representative said it was “clear and necessary”

Mary Heilmann’s fifth-floor installation creates a calm space of refuge amidst the frenetic pace of Frieze week

The artist, a member of the museum’s board of trustees, gave more than $2m to expand its free admission policy

The 82nd edition of the most closely-watched recurring exhibition in the United States will open in spring 2026

In an effort to deepen existing programming and community engagement, some institutions are choosing to stage fewer exhibitions

From a historic Harlem Renaissance show at the Met and MoMA's Joan Jonas retrospective to solo museum debuts for Melissa Cody and Nona Faustine

She was the curator of the museum's blockbuster Edward Hopper and critically acclaimed Ruth Asawa exhibitions

The Whitney Museum’s flagship contemporary art showcase turns on questions of identity, authenticity and mutability, which play out across more than a handful of interrelated topics

The biennial’s curators were unaware of the statement in a work by Demian DinéYazhi’ prior to the exhibition preview

The Whitney Museum of American Art is spotlighting the late art and technology innovator's prescient "AARON" series

The exhibition, titled “Even Better Than the Real Thing” and co-curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, will feature works by 69 artists and two collectives

Our guide to a fast-moving year in artificial intelligence, blockchain contracts, stadium-scale video, NFTs and social media

The additional staff will programme sound art, film and performance events

The museum's revamped dining areas include lush installations by Johnson and White Hawk that blend interior and exterior spaces

Nancy Baker Cahill’s augmented-reality work explores the climate crisis and interdependence between humans and nature

From large-scale surveys of Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha, to showcases of Barkley L. Hendricks’s portraits, Ruth Asawa’s works on paper, Shary Boyle’s surreal ceramics, Korean experimental art and more

Major institutions are falling over themselves to be funny on the new rival to Twitter

Admission fees have increased by 20% for adults and 33% for seniors and students, matching (and even exceeding) those at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The auction house expects to move into the Madison Avenue building in 2025, vacating its current York Avenue headquarters

The artist's 100th birthday coincides with an array of exhibition programming, celebrations and municipal recognitions of Kelly's legacy

From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions

Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has been transforming the contemporary art canon for decades with multilayered works that address cultural misconceptions with humour