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Hey, you! Like New is now on view. Discover Roy Lichtenstein through a bold new lens. From iconic Pop paintings to immersive large-scale installations, Like New traces the artist behind the world’s most recognizable images and asks why his work is more relevant than ever. On view now through May 10.

💥 It’s here! 💥 🔵⚪️🔴 Roy Lichtenstein: Like New 🔵⚪️🔴 is officially open and co-curators Alex Da Corte and Meg Onli want you to experience Lichtenstein in a whole new way. 💥 Through May 10, 2027. 🎬 Learn more about the exhibition in the full video at the link in bio. Don’t miss it. — Video…

Members! Welcome to Roy Lichtenstein: Like New. In honor of the first day of Member Previews, artist and co-curator Alex Da Corte gave us some insight into how he thinks about Lichtenstein's work. Member Preview Days: Thursday, October 8, 10:30 am–6 pm Friday, October 9, 10:30 am–5 pm Saturday…

Think you know Roy Lichtenstein? We'll see about that. Roy Lichtenstein: Like New opens to Members on October 8 and the public on October 11. — Artworks: © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2026

See the world through Roy Lichtenstein's eyes. Experience the first major exhibition in more than 30 years dedicated to the American artist who shaped Pop art. Roy Lichtenstein: Like New opens to Members on October 8 and the public on October 11. — Artworks: © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2026

How does a 30-foot sculpture land on our fifth floor terrace? By crane, of course. 🏗️ You can sneak a preview of Roy Lichtenstein's Coups de Pinceau (1988; fabricated 2011) from our neighbors at @The High Line. Roy Lichtenstein: Like New opens to Members on October 8 and the public on October 11…

Our upcoming exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: Like New features a recreation of Roy Lichtenstein's Super Sunset Billboard from 1967 by artist and co-curator Alex Da Corte and studio assistants. This massive work will be on view in the Whitney's west-facing window, positioned to emulate the actual…

Takis, physical endurance, sunscreen. As we wind down this year's #WhitneyBiennial, we present a second episode of Biennial Confidential with Biennial curatorial team members Beatriz Cifuentes and Carina Martinez. Please note the following closing dates for this year's show: Floor 5 will remain on…

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…

Sula Bermudez-Silverman’s work draws on the histories of found objects, taking something that may seem familiar and reframing it. For #WhitneyBiennial 2026, Bermudez-Silverman made sculptures by blowing glass into iron tools, including horse stirrups, different kinds of traps, and a bull nose…

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

In his podcast minisode, artist 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…

Now through the end of the year! Join us every third Friday of the month for free dance classes with @aileyextension instructors. Each class will explore a different dance genre—come groove with us. Tonight, we're excited to host Samba class with @QueniaRibeiro! Link in bio to read more and…

🌈 Take a look back at Gordon Marta-Clark’s artwork Day's End (1975) and how this piece inspired artist David Hammons to create his 2021 public art installation outside the Whitney. Opened to the public five years ago, Hammons's Day's End reflects the exact location and dimensions of the Pier 52…

You could say Conservation cooked with this one. 🧑‍🍳 Check out the full video on our YouTube. 🎬 — Claes Oldenburg, Soft Dormeyer Mixer, 1965. Purchase, with funds from the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc. 66.55 © Claes Oldenburg

#WhitneyBiennial 2026 artist Teresa Baker shares her lightbulb moment at Home Depot. 🔗 in bio to listen to Teresa Baker's full audio guide stop. #MuseumTok

🗽 The @nyliberty mini print vending machine by @inciardi is here for a limited time only! Come by the Museum any time now through Free Friday Nights tomorrow to get your New York Liberty mini prints. Join us for a Special Liberty Free Friday Nights tomorrow, May 15, 5–10 pm. The Timeless Torches…

The Whitney is now free for all visitors 25 & under! In honor of this expansion of our free admissions program, we asked six #WhitneyBiennial artists to share advice with their 25-year-old self 🤍

No lying down No pitching tents No amplified sound No annoying behavior David L. Johnson’s #WhitneyBiennial work Rule consists of the removal of code-of-conduct signs from privately owned public spaces (POPS). POPS emerged in New York in 1961 following a zoning resolution that permitted private…

April Free Second Sundays is this weekend! 🎷👒📚 Join us this Sunday, April 12, for free admission all day, plus storytime with @spiralbooksnyc, music by @jazzdotorg, and wearable sculptures artmaking with #WhitneyBiennial artist Pat Oleszko, pictured here. After creating your wearable sculpture…

Erin Jane Nelson’s #WhitneyBiennial 2026 works include both her photographs as well as the ceramic sculptures with pinhole cameras used to create them. As part of the Biennial audio guide, Nelson spoke to us about her practice—listen to the full stop via the link in our bio. This year's Biennial…

It's not every day that art gets inflated in the galleries. 🌬️ Pat Oleszko first began creating her "inflatables" in the early 1980s as a way to make large-scale sculptures without relying on the need for constructed, heavy armatures. This work titled Blowhard debuted as a 1995 commission for the…

Spring has sprung and a new season of Free Friday Nights is here 🌷 Join us every week on Fridays from 5 to 10 pm for free admission, music, dancing, cocktails, sunset views, and access to the #WhitneyBiennial.

They grow up so fast — Artworks © Nan Goldin; © Keith Haring Foundation; © 2026 The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts / Licensed by VAGA at ARS, NY; © Nancy Reddin Kienholz; © Charles Ray, courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles; © 2026 Julian Schnabel / ARS, NY. Photographs by Geoffrey Clements…

#WhitneyBiennial 2026 is officially open! Join us all day today for Free Second Sundays to see the exhibition for free. Go behind the scenes with curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer as they detail the thought process behind this year's Biennial. Experience our signature exhibition now…

🎬 Aaaand, action! Our Museum staff, artists, and curators have been working tirelessly to bring #WhitneyBiennial 2026 to life. Tomorrow, March 4, the exhibition opens to Members, and Sunday, March 8, it opens to the public during Free Second Sundays. Sound on for art installation ASMR.

The first #WhitneyBiennial 2026 work is now on view 😁 Taína H. Cruz: I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back was installed last week across from the Museum on the Gansevoort Street billboard. Graffiti is a major inspiration for Cruz’s paintings and drawings, including those she created on-site on one…

High Wire: Calder's Circus at 100 at the Whitney is a full-circle moment for director Scott Rothkopf. Celebrate the centennial of Alexander Calder’s groundbreaking Calder’s Circus featuring an unforgettable cast of over 100 objects that explore themes of movement, balance, suspense, and…

What does it mean to be Puerto Rican? To live in Puerto Rico? To be an artist in Puerto Rico? Our 2022–23 exhibition no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria took a hard look at these questions.

Artist Grace Rosario Perkins sat down with us to discuss her painting Dishes in the Sink n Roses n AVON n Your Ring (2025), which references her grandmother's diary. Join Perkins along with curator Laura J. Allen for a conversation at the Museum tomorrow, 2/7. Their discussion will address aspects…