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Then/Now: How can a site-specific artwork enrich our appreciation of the environment?
69 Gansevoort Street, 1938. Photography by Sol Libsohn (1914-2001) for Federal Art Project. Museum of the City of New York. 43.131.6.180 Pier 52, North River, 1951. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of ...
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Teaching Tips
School Programs at the Whitney uses a theme-based approach to teach in the galleries. This approach allows us to connect different types of artwork focused on a specific theme and discuss topics and ...
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Teaching Tips
Whitney educators ask different types of open-ended questions to elicit varied responses to a work of art. Some questions ask students to look closely and focus their attention on the visual elements ...
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2015–2016 Teacher Exchange
Stacy is a visual arts teacher for grades six through nine at our partnership school, The Clinton School for Writers and Artists. Alex is an earth science and physics teacher for grades nine and ...
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Moving Messages
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s Trade Canoe for the North Pole is populated with images of palm trees, buffalo, and rubber ducks, among others, which ominously remind viewers of the effects of people's ...
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Emily Barker
Emily Barker was born in 1992 in San Diego, California, and grew up in Georgia where they studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are an artist and model living in Los ...
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Join us for an unforgettable night at the 2025 Art Party, as the Whitney is transformed into Studio 99! Embrace the vibrant spirit of the '70s as you dance the night away and explore our captivating ...
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Nancy Holt 1938–2014
Nancy Holt (April 5, 1938 – February 8, 2014) was an American artist most known for her public sculpture, installation art, concrete poetry, and land art. Throughout her career, Holt also produced ...
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Courses and Workshops
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Dorr Bothwell 1902–2000
Dorr Hodgson Bothwell (May 3, 1902 – September 24, 2000) was an American artist, designer, educator, and world-traveler. A varied artist, Bothwell was considered a part of the Bay Area Surrealist ...
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Rosemarie Beck 1923–2003
Rosemarie Beck (July 8, 1923 – July 15, 2003) was an American abstract expressionist, figurative expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. She was married to the writer and editor Robert ...
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Mickalene Thomas 1971–
Mickalene Thomas (born January 28, 1971) is a contemporary African-American visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Thomas's collage work is ...