Public Programs
2019 Walter Annenberg Lecture: Jason Moran
Composer and multimedia artist Jason Moran works at the intersection of jazz and the visual arts. His broad oeuvre in composition, improvisation, and performance challenges audiences to think beyond conventional boundaries between the arts. For the 2019 Walter Annenberg Lecture, Moran speaks about his practice and the history of jazz and its role in American art and culture with Adam D. Weinberg, the Museum’s Alice Pratt Brown Director.
Past Events
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Sun,
Mar 8
The Fight for Clean Water
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Thu,
Mar 5
A Conversation with Tiona Nekkia McClodden
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Thu,
Feb 27
Perspectives on Indigenous Representations in Vida Americana
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Fri,
Feb 7
Greenwich House Pottery at the Whitney
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Mon,
Jan 6
Alex Kitnick and Laura Cottingham on Rachel Harrison
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Sun,
Jan 5
Sites of Jazz: A Conversation with Jason Moran
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Wed,
Dec 18
Ottessa Moshfegh on Rachel Harrison
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Mon,
Dec 16
Walter Annenberg Lecture: Jason Moran
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Mon,
Dec 9
Paul Chan on Rachel Harrison, or what is non-salvific art
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Sun,
Dec 1
Still Beginning: The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art Presented by Visual AIDS
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Mon,
Nov 18
Richard Hawkins on Rachel Harrison
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Sun,
Nov 17
The Burning Child: Screening and Conversation with Joseph Leo Koerner and David Breslin
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Oct 26
Contemporary Indigenous Art in a Global Context: Alan Michelson in Conversation with Wanda Nanibush and Richard Bell
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Sat,
Oct 19
Reading with Carolyn Lazard
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Sat,
Sep 28
Ethics of Looking: Whitney Biennial 2019
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Sun,
Sep 15
From Seneca Village to Brooklyn: A Conversation with Tomashi Jackson
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Fri,
Sep 13
Steffani Jemison with Garrett Gray: On Similitude
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Sun,
Sep 8
Njideka Akunyili Crosby in Conversation with Siddhartha Mitter
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Fri,
Aug 9
Marcus Fischer
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Wed,
Jul 31
Barbara Hammer's History Lessons: Screening and Discussion
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Fri,
Jul 26
A Conversation with Beta-Local
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Thu,
Jul 25
Jerron Herman: Many Ways to Raise a Fist
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Mon,
Jul 22
Ellie Ga: The Fortunetellers
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Mon,
Jul 1
Interactions of Color: Alex Da Corte and David Breslin in Conversation
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Fri,
Jun 21
Laura Ortman
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Sun,
Jun 16
Photographic Activities: A Salon
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Thu,
Jun 13
Stonewall 50 Celebration with Tiona Nekkia McClodden
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Thu,
Jun 6
Curating the Whitney Biennial 2019
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Mon,
Jun 3
Praise House (1991): Screening and Discussion
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Thu,
May 23
Whitney Independent Study Program: Critical Studies Symposium
Engage with artists, curators, writers, and scholars through innovative programs that explore the Whitney’s current exhibitions and permanent collection.
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.
Courses
Whitney courses are multi-week programs that examine key issues in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art and culture.