1. American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe showcases the Whitney’s deep holdings of artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by the eighteen leading artists including Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, and Alexander Calder. Enjoy these select installation shots and come see the exhibition in person! On view now. 

  2. Last chance: Sinister Pop and Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV and the Movies will both be closing this weekend. Louis Faurer (1916–2001), Viva, 1962. Gelatin silver print, Sheet and Image: 13 13/16 × 9 1/4in. (35.1 × 23.5cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 95.5. Courtesy Estate of Louis Faurer, Mark Faurer, Executor

    Last chance: Sinister Pop and Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV and the Movies will both be closing this weekend. 

    Louis Faurer (1916–2001), Viva, 1962. Gelatin silver print, Sheet and Image: 13 13/16 × 9 1/4in. (35.1 × 23.5cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 95.5. Courtesy Estate of Louis Faurer, Mark Faurer, Executor

  3. Installation views of Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 28–June 2, 2013). Photographs by Sheldan C. Collins.

  4. We invite you to view these installation shots from Blues for Smoke. Now at the Whitney Museum of American Art through April 28.

    Installation views of Blues for Smoke (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 7–April 28, 2013). Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins

  5. timelightbox: © 2013 The Jay DeFeo Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photograph by M. Lee Fatherree Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, opens today at the Whitney and features nearly 150 of DeFeo’s works, many of which will be exhibited for the first time. The show traces motifs and themes the artist examined throughout her career in drawings, photographs, collages, jewelry, and the monumental paintings for which she is best known. The exhibition is organized by Dana Miller, curator of the permanent collection at the Whitney, and will be on view in the fourth-floor Emily Fisher Landau Galleries through June 2, 2013. Always eager to work with new media, DeFeo began to explore photography. A 1973 National Endowment for the Arts grant allowed her to buy a medium-format camera and install a darkroom in her home. She incorporated her photographs into highly inventive collages. These works, much like her paintings and drawings, were the result of an iterative process of building an image, breaking it down, and then reworking it again. This open-ended and labor intensive process, which the artist described as a “cliff-hanging experience,” allowed for highly expressionistic forms and an astonishing range of surfaces.

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    © 2013 The Jay DeFeo Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    Photograph by M. Lee Fatherree

    Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, opens today at the Whitney and features nearly 150 of DeFeo’s works, many of which will be exhibited for the first time. The show traces motifs and themes the artist examined throughout her career in drawings, photographs, collages, jewelry, and the monumental paintings for which she is best known. The exhibition is organized by Dana Miller, curator of the permanent collection at the Whitney, and will be on view in the fourth-floor Emily Fisher Landau Galleries through June 2, 2013.

    Always eager to work with new media, DeFeo began to explore photography. A 1973 National Endowment for the Arts grant allowed her to buy a medium-format camera and install a darkroom in her home. She incorporated her photographs into highly inventive collages. These works, much like her paintings and drawings, were the result of an iterative process of building an image, breaking it down, and then reworking it again. This open-ended and labor intensive process, which the artist described as a “cliff-hanging experience,” allowed for highly expressionistic forms and an astonishing range of surfaces.

  6. Weighing nearly one ton, The Rose by Jay DeFeo is one of the most complicated works in the Whitney’s collection to install. On February 15, the work was installed at the Whitney Museum as part of the exhibition Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective (opening February 28). The work arrived in New York from California, where the Whitney’s exhibition had finished a successful run at SFMOMA. Photographer Paula Court documented the installation that day from start to finish.

  7. Experience the cold weather from the warmth of the Museum with this Joel Meyerowitz photograph, on view now in Sinister Pop. Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938), JFK Airport, 1968, from The Early Works, 1999. Gelatin silver print. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Ronald B. Milch 2000.286.1

    Experience the cold weather from the warmth of the Museum with this Joel Meyerowitz photograph, on view now in Sinister Pop.

    Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938), JFK Airport, 1968, from The Early Works, 1999. Gelatin silver print. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Ronald B. Milch 2000.286.1

  8. Blues for Smoke opens today. This highly anticipated exhibition explores the blues not simply as a musical category but as an artistic sensibility—from John Coltrane to Jean-Michel Basquiat to the television show The Wire. Mark Morrisroe (1959–1989), Untitled, c. 1981. © The Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur

    Blues for Smoke opens today. This highly anticipated exhibition explores the blues not simply as a musical category but as an artistic sensibility—from John Coltrane to Jean-Michel Basquiat to the television show The Wire.

    Mark Morrisroe (1959–1989), Untitled, c. 1981. © The Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur

  9. Here are some photos taken during the Blues for Smoke press preview this morning. The exhibition, which explores the connection between the blues and a wide range of contemporary art, music, literature, and film, opens to the public tomorrow.

  10. A very lovely photo of our founder Gertrude Whitney. archivesofamericanart: Meet Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: heiress, sculptress, founder of the Whitney Museum, and great aunt to Anderson Cooper. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, ca. 1913 / Adolf De Meyer, photographer. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

    A very lovely photo of our founder Gertrude Whitney.

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    Meet Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: heiress, sculptress, founder of the Whitney Museum, and great aunt to Anderson Cooper.

    Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, ca. 1913 / Adolf De Meyer, photographer. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

  11. On behalf of the Whitney Museum, The Standard, New York, and High Line Art, we’d like to congratulate the winner of our blps photo contest Sarah Butler. Here’s one of her great submissions. Learn more about Richard Artschwager, the artist behind the blps, on whitney.org.

    On behalf of the Whitney Museum, The Standard, New York, and High Line Art, we’d like to congratulate the winner of our blps photo contest Sarah Butler. Here’s one of her great submissions.

    Learn more about Richard Artschwager, the artist behind the blps, on whitney.org.

  12. We’re loving this black-and-white submission to our Artschwager blps contest! You only have a few days left to get out there and find blps. Submit your photos for a chance to win a great prize package. Visit whitney.org for more information.

    We’re loving this black-and-white submission to our Artschwager blps contest!

    You only have a few days left to get out there and find blps. Submit your photos for a chance to win a great prize package. Visit whitney.org for more information.

  13. Can you spot the Artschwager blp in this gorgeous shot of the New York City skyline? This is another great submission to our Document Blps and Win! project (courtesy Annik LaFarge). Visit whitney.org for more information.

    Can you spot the Artschwager blp in this gorgeous shot of the New York City skyline?

    This is another great submission to our Document Blps and Win! project (courtesy Annik LaFarge). Visit whitney.org for more information.

  14. Here’s a few great recent submissions to our Document Blps and Win! project.

    Feeling inspired? Email photos of Artschwager’s blps to blps@standardhotel.com. All participants will be entered for a chance to win a prize package from the Whitney Museum, The Standard, New York, and High Line Art. Visit whitney.org for more information.

  15. In celebration of Richard Artschwager’s blp installation, we invite you to participate in the collective documentation of the project! Email photos of Artschwager’s blps to blps@standardhotel.com and be entered for a chance to win a prize package from the Whitney Museum, The Standard, New York, and the High Line. Visit whitney.org for more information. Richard Artschwager, blp, 2012. Installation view (the High Line at West 17th Street, New York, October 25, 2012–February 3, 2013.) Co-presented by High Line Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Courtesy the artist, Friends of the High Line, and the Whitney. Photograph by Timothy Schenck

    In celebration of Richard Artschwager’s blp installation, we invite you to participate in the collective documentation of the project!

    Email photos of Artschwager’s blps to blps@standardhotel.com and be entered for a chance to win a prize package from the Whitney Museum, The Standard, New York, and the High Line. Visit whitney.org for more information.

    Richard Artschwager, blp, 2012. Installation view (the High Line at West 17th Street, New York, October 25, 2012–February 3, 2013.) Co-presented by High Line Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Courtesy the artist, Friends of the High Line, and the Whitney. Photograph by Timothy Schenck