Public Programs
Engage with artists, curators, writers, and scholars through innovative programs that explore the Whitney’s current exhibitions and permanent collection.
Get Updates About Lectures, Talks, and Courses
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline: Reading David Wojnarowicz
FRI, Sep 7, 2018
6:30 pm
This evening devoted to Wojnarowicz’s written work includes readings and performances by artists who were engaged with Wojnarowicz during in his lifetime, or who have been inspired by his example. Taking its title from his final collection of stories Memories That Smell Like Gasoline (1992), this program highlights the passion and rage of Wojnarowicz’s singular voice.
This event has reached ticketing capacity.
ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion)
Sep 14–16, 2018
ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion) is a multimedia performance that David Wojnarowicz made in collaboration with composer and musician Ben Neill in 1989. Integrating music, text, and video in a multi-dimensional format, the work embodies the act of acceleration and its sensory manifestations. It is through this frame that Wojnarowicz addressed the accelerating AIDS crisis and the politics of AIDS in the United States at that moment.
Tickets are required and include Museum admission ($25 adults; $18 students and seniors; free for members). Members: please log in to reserve tickets.
This program offers advanced graduate students the opportunity to work directly with the Whitney’s collection and audiences within a supportive community of their peers and museum educators.
Whitney courses are multi-week programs that examine key issues in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art and culture.
College and university students are invited to come as a class to explore the Whitney, guided by either their professor or one of our Teaching Fellows.
