Whitney Museum Of American Art

Programs: Collection and exhibitions of american art:in fy17, the whitney museum of american art presented 15 exhibitions. These included: human interest: portraits from the whitney's collection (april 2, 2016 april 2, 2017); june leaf: thought is infinite (april 27 july 17, 2016); mirror cells (may 13 august 21, 2016); stuart davis: in full swing (june 10 september 25, 2016); virginia overton: sculpture gardens (june 10 september 25, 2016): danny lyon: message to the future (june 17 september 25, 2016); sophia al-maria: black friday (july 26 october 31, 2016); carmen herrera: lines of sight (september 16, 2016 january 9, 2017); dreamlands: immersive cinema and art, 1905-2016 (october 28, 2016 february 5, 2017); virginia overton: winter garden (october 28, 2016 february 5, 2017); mpa: red in view (november 11, 2016 february 27, 2017); fast forward: painting from the 1980s (january 27 may 14, 2017); whitney biennial 2017 (march 17 june 11, 2017); where we are: selections from the whitney's collection, 1900-1960 (april 28, 2017 february 2019); and calder: hypermobility (june 9 october 23, 2017). These covered a wide range of media and artists contemporary and historical. Fy17 performances at the museum included 6 distinct projects: jill kroesen: collection injustices, unnecessary suffering (july 27-29, 2016); shake the stars with your song (september 10, 2016); sibyl kempson: 12 shouts to the ten forgotten heavens: fall equinox (september 22, 2016); sibyl kempson: 12 shouts to the ten forgotten heavens: winter solstice (december 21, 2016); sibyl kempson: 12 shouts to the ten forgotten heavens: spring equinox (march 20, 2017); and sibyl kempson: 12 shouts to the ten forgotten heavens: summer solstice (june 20, 2017). The museum's fy17 performances also included projects in conjunction with the following exhibitions: stuart davis; mpa: red in view; and the whitney biennial 2017. An ongoing series of outdoor art shown across gansevoort street from the museum had 3 installations: torbj rn r dland: blue portrait (nokia n82) (june 7, 2016 march 6, 2017); an installation in conjunction with the whitney biennial 2017 (march 3 june 25, 2017); and do ho suh: 95 horatio street (june 26, 2017 january 28, 2018). The museum's exhibitions toured nationally and internationally: frank stella: a retrospective (modern art museum fort worth; fine arts museums of san francisco, de young memorial museum); collected by thea westreich wagner and ethan wagner (centre pompidou, paris, france); edward hopper (palazzo fava, bologna, italy; complesso del vittoriano, rome, italy); h lio oiticica: to organize delirium (carnegie museum of art, pittsburgh; the art institute of chicago); stuart davis: in full swing (national gallery of art, washington, d. C. ; fine arts museums of san francisco, de young memorial museum); and carmen herrera: lines of sight (wexner center for the arts, columbus, ohio).

curatorial and related support:in fy17, the whitney museum of american art continued to focus on refining its strategy for displaying more of the permanent collection within the museum's significantly larger gallery spaces. The continuous study of the more than 23,000 objects in the collection by over 3,000 artists informs exhibition planning and the museum's acquisition process. The resulting collection displays create an art historical and thematic counterpoint to the ongoing special exhibitions program, and offer a consideration of how the museum can tell new narratives about american culture and history. Work was ongoing to digitize the museum's special collections, a project that is a crucial aspect of the increased scope of the conservation and research resources teams in its greatly enlarged facility. The whitney's permanent collection remained online and available to the public as a searchable resource and is updated regularly as new works enter the collection. The new building features important library and special collections holdings on site, as well as about 15,000 works on paper that are stored in the sondra gilman study center, substantially increasing access to them for curators and scholars. The gilman study center was conceived for cross-medium, cross-disciplinary research, allowing access to the collection and close material and technical examination of objects by museum staff, as well as by artists, scholars, and researchers. As such, the gilman study center is a fundamental resource for historians and curators of modern and contemporary art, making the whitney's world-class holdings available for primary research and in-depth consultation for the first time in its history. The whitney also continued to prepare for the upcoming exhibitions beyond fy17, understanding that the larger scale of the building would require more work to fill with the high quality, artist-driven exhibitions at the heart of the whitney's mission. The museum's goal is not only to make use of its larger gallery spaces but also the new possibilities offered by outdoor terraces, a theater and black box screening space, and more.

education programs:in fy17, the whitney museum of american art expanded the breadth of the museum's education program significantly in its second full year of operation in the new building at 99 gansevoort street. The museum served 104,780 people through school, youth, and family programs, public programs, and access & community programs, and over 2. 3m through interpretive and online resources. 22,000 of these audience members were k-12 students, with all nyc public schools receiving free admission. The laurie m. Tisch education center, a dedicated space to enliven and enrich visitors' museum experience, continued to serve as a hub for the department's activities. Programs offered in the education center include drop-in events, hands-on learning and in-depth and interdisciplinary programming. During fy17, the whitney mounted major exhibitions of artists danny lyon, stuart davis, and carmen herrera among others, as well as survey exhibitions on immersive cinema (dreamlands: immersive cinema and art) and painting in the 1980s (fast forward), and two ongoing installations of work from the whitney's permanent collection (human interest and where we are). For all of these exhibitions, the education department offered free public tours, guided visits for schools, teen programs with artists-in-residence, family art workshops and family day programs, sign language and touch tours, public programs, continuing education courses, and online and multimedia exhibition-related content. The museum also did extensive programming around the museum's signature contemporary art exhibition, the 2017 biennial. Artist collaborations are at the forefront of the museum's work, and this year the education department had the opportunity to work with: danny lyon, nina chanel abney, leidy churchman, martha rosler, mary kelly, devonte hynes, jenny perlin, shelly silver, mpa, layli long soldier, natalie diaz, and biennial artists susan cianciolo, rafa esparza, noah fischer, oto gillen, shara hughes, james n kienitz wilkins, ajay kurian, beatrice santiago mu oz, aliza nisenbaum, postcommodity, assad raza, jessi reaves, chemi rosado-seijo, cauleen smith, maya stovall, and ian svenonius among many others. The museum's public programs highlighted other important cultural and political voices as well, welcoming guests such as representative john lewis, scholar justin leroy, attorney jan sussler and others. For more information about whitney education, please visit whitney. Org/education.

publication and retail:museum related auxillary services that provide products related to the museum's collection and exhibitions.