In a twist to the Whitney Museum’s annual benefit auction, the Whitney Art Party this year is teaming up with Artsy to host an e-commerce sale during the weeks preceding the party, offering 62 artworks by 64 artists including Matthew Day Jackson, Liz Magic Lazer, Sebastian Black, Andrea Bowers, and KAWS. Though the party is on May 1, the artworks are available starting today and the sale runs through April 30. (more…)
On Tuesday evening, in a ceremony to be held just a few blocks north of its future home at the southern tip of the High Line (pictured), the Whitney Museum will present its 2013 American Art Awards to four honorees: The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Miami-based collector Martin Z. Margulies, COACH creative director and collector Reed Krakoff, and Michael Ward Stout, the founding partner of New York’s Stout Thomas & Johnson law firm. (more…)
Though he’s best-known for his bold-hued landscape paintings and iPad art evangelism — and, more recently, the tragic death of his friend and studio assistant Dominic Elliott — septuagenarian British artist David Hockney continues to explore new media. His first foray into multi-channel video, “The Jugglers, June 24th 2012″ (2012, pictured), will make its U.S. debut at the Whitney Museum next month, showing on 18 synchronized screens in the Kaufman Astoria Studios Film & Video Gallery on the institution’s second floor. (more…)
In light of Paris’s recent blockbuster brush with the American master of sun-filled surrealism and uncanny calm, the Whitney Museum’s plans to mount the first major survey of Edward Hopper’s drawings this summer is a surefire recipe for success. The show, “Hopper Drawing,” is scheduled to run from May 23 to October 6, and will feature over 200 drawings including preparatory sketches for some of his best-known works including “Nighthawks,” “New York Movie,” and “Office at Night.” (more…)
The new Renzo Piano-designed Whitney Museum building at the bottom of the High Line in the Meatpacking District took some 14 months to top out, which it did last month, but thanks to the magic of time lapse video — and the Whitney’s live construction camera — you can watch the entire process unfold in less than a minute. (more…)
Today, at the construction site of the Whitney Museum’s new Renzo Piano-designed building in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, construction workers lifted into place the highest beam of the future structure, one signed by the museum’s president Adam D. Weinberg and its trustees and staff, and outfitted with an American flag and a banner reading “NY [Hearts] Newtown,” in memory of the victims of Friday’s horrific school shooting in Connecticut. (more…)
Much like last week, the latest batch of Art World Missed Connections concerns a pair of Manhattan museums — this time the Guggenheim and the Whitney. At the former, a young man found himself distracted from the black-and-white Picasso by a fellow museum-goer, and at the latter an art enthusiast looking for a primer on American modernism got a serious case of heartache instead. (more…)
This afternoon the Whitney Museum named the three curators who will select the artists and works for its 2014 Biennial, the 77th edition of the bi-annual exhibition and the last one to be held in the institution’s Marcel Breuer-designed building on Madison Avenue before its relocation to the Meatpacking District. They are Tate Modern film curator Stuart Comer, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia associate curator Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner, a professor and chair of the painting and drawing department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (more…)
In light of the devastating flooding suffered by many Chelsea galleries, art world observers were understandably worried that the future site of the Whitney Museum’s new Renzo Piano-designed downtown home at the southern tip of the High Line — seen in the photo above, taken October 23 — would be similarly overcome by the storm surge, but luckily the site was largely spared. (more…)
Following the leads of the Metropolitan Museum and MoMA, the Whitney Museum announced today plans to resume regular opening hours after the passage of Hurricane Sandy. The Madison Avenue institution will reopen tomorrow, returning to its regular 11am-6pm schedule. (more…)
