Hi the Whitney Museum Exhibition~ The Lost World of Minnie Evans~ Opens August 22, 2026. see details below

 

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART PRESENTS THE FIRST MAJOR SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITION OF MINNIE EVANS IN MORE THAN FIVE DECADES Marking fifty years since the Whitney debuted the artist's first museum solo exhibition, this landmark survey celebrates the visionary work of one of America's most revered self-taught artists. — The Whitney Museum of American Art presents The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans, opening August 22, 2026, just over fifty years after the Whitney organized Evans's groundbreaking first solo museum exhibition in 1975. The exhibition reintroduces audiences to one of the most extraordinary and original artistic voices in twentieth-century America.  Minnie Evans began making art in her early forties and spent the following four decades creating radiant drawings, paintings, and collages inspired by dreams, visions, spiritual revelation, mythology, popular culture, and the natural world. Guided by a profound religious faith and a vivid inner life, Evans transformed flowers, birds, angels, and human faces into intricate compositions that blur the boundaries between the earthly and the divine. She described these visionary works as portals into a Biblical Eden she called the "lost world."  Bringing together works created between 1935 and 1981 in Wilmington, North Carolina during the Jim Crow era, the exhibition reveals the artist's remarkable ability to envision harmony and transcendence amid a world of social and racial tensions. Through densely layered imagery, luminous color, and recurring spiritual motifs, Evans created a body of work that remains as relevant and resonant today as when it was first made.  The exhibition arrives at a moment of renewed interest in Evans's work. While her drawings and paintings have appeared in influential exhibitions such as The Milk of Dreams at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art (2022) at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 (2024) at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Evans has not been the subject of a major solo museum presentation since the 1990s. This landmark exhibition offers an unprecedented opportunity to experience the full breadth of her artistic vision and legacy.  “Evans is part of a long tradition of American artists who found sacred meaning in the natural world,” said Barbara Haskell, Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. “Her decades of working at the Airlie Gardens gave her a profoundly personal relationship to nature. In filtering her experience of the gardens through dreams and visions that resonated with her inner life, fears, and religious faith, she created images of a lost paradise whose abundance can feel simultaneously ecstatic and claustrophobic.”   "The Whitney’s 1975 exhibition played a transformative role in introducing Evans's work to museum audiences in New York and beyond,” said Kim Conaty, the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney. “Fifty years later, we’re thrilled to train our focus once again on this exceptional artist, whose exquisite works offer a powerful lens through which to examine American history, spirituality, creativity, and resilience.”    The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans returns the artist to the institution where a historic milestone began and reflects the Whitney's ongoing commitment to expanding the story of American art by highlighting artists whose contributions have historically been overlooked. The exhibition showcases an extraordinary range of creative expression, foregrounding the achievements of a Black woman artist working independently in the American South during much of the twentieth century.   The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and curated by Katherine Jentleson, the High Museum’s Senior Curator of American Art and Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art. The presentation at the Whitney Museum of American Art is organized by Barbara Haskell, Curator, with Caroline Webb, Curatorial Assistant.  PRESS CONTACT For press materials and image requests, please visit our press site at whitney.org/press or contact: Cree Solomon-Bonhomme, Publicist    Whitney Museum of American Art   (212)-671-1845 Cree_Solomon@whitney.org   Whitney Press Office whitney.org/press (212) 570-3633 pressoffice@whitney.org EXHIBITION SUPPORT Major support for The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is provided by the Barbara Haskell American Fellows Legacy Fund and the Kapadia Equity Fund. ABOUT THE WHITNEY The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today. Whitney Museum Land Acknowledgment The Whitney is located in Lenapehoking, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name Manhattan comes from their word Mannahatta, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s current site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan (“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original inhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today. As a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people, the Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and program. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the perspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To read more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgment, visit the Museum’s website. VISITOR INFORMATION The Whitney Museum of American Art is located at 99 Gansevoort Street between Washington and West Streets, New York City. Public hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 10:30 am–6 pm; Friday, 10:30 am–10 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 am–6 pm. Closed Tuesday. Visitors twenty-five years and under and Whitney members: FREE. The Museum offers FREE admission and special programming for visitors of all ages every Friday evening from 5–10 pm and on the second Sunday of every month.

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY 10014 whitney.org                                Discover the Whitney’s audio guides and accessible content on Bloomberg Connects.  Update your preferences to change the types of emails you receive from the Whitney. Forward this email to a friend. Unsubscribe from all Whitney emails. Image credit: Minnie Evans, Untitled (Three Figures and Angels Collage), 1961–1967. Oil, crayon, and pencil on paper and canvas, 14 × 19 in. (35.56 × 48.26 cm). Collection of John Jerit. © The Estate of Minnie Evans  Minnie Evans, Untitled (The Lions of Judah Collage), 1968. Oil and crayon on paper and board, 19 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (49.53 × 59.69 cm). Collection of Christian Daniel. © The Estate of Minnie Evans  #thewhitneymuseum#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunfantasy #artfunnow#artfun

The New Museum Exhibition covers 400 years of history ~The Bowery : Devil's Mile~ opens September 24, 2026

 

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New Museum Exhibition Traces 400 Years of Cultural History on the Bowery  The Bowery: Devil’s Mile Opens September 24, 2026 The Bowery: Devil’s Mile is the first exhibition to trace the rich cultural history of New York’s oldest thoroughfare, illuminating the Bowery—now home to the New Museum—as one of the most infamous yet astonishingly underexplored streets in the world.   Known in the twentieth century as a notorious skid row, the Bowery has had many incarnations: a Lenape footpath; a home to farms and cattle drives; the site of racetracks and pleasure gardens; a center of popular entertainment with theaters, concert halls, tattoo parlors, and dime museums; and most recently, the spine of a thriving artist community. This exhibition is an introduction to the richness and complexity of the Bowery and its generative power and concentrated energy as a street, a neighborhood, and a state of mind. For centuries, the Bowery has been a place of transformation and invention, a gateway for immigrants, a refuge for drifters and dreamers. Described as “a democratic vortex” by Jacob Riis and “the great highway of humanity” by Theodore Roosevelt, the Bowery has been a place of openness and experimentation, vice and deviance, that was also once known as “Devil’s Mile.” On view from September 24, 2026, through January 31, 2027, the exhibition brings together artifacts and artworks stretching back centuries, from an 1830s hand pump fire engine to a nineteenth century dime museum attraction called the “Feejee Mermaid,” to Jacob Riis’s revolutionary images How the Other Half Lives revealing previously hidden interior views through newly invented flash photography. Underscoring the Bowery as a site of perpetual reinvention, the exhibition will reveal the Bowery’s rich evolution through archival materials, historical artifacts, and through the works of successive waves of artists of all stripes who have lived or worked there, from Abstract Expressionism to Pop, Beats to punks, street artists, and beyond, featuring works by Lynda Benglis, John Giorno, Nan Goldin, Adolph Gottlieb, Keith Haring, Eva Hesse, Robert Indiana, Brad Kahlhamer, June Leaf, Reginald Marsh, Martha Rosler, Bill Sullivan, Cy Twombly, and Tom Wesselman, among others. The Bowery: Devil’s Mile builds on twenty years of research including the New Museum’s own archive and oral history project: The Bowery Artists Tribute and the associated exhibition Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989. The Bowery: Devil’s Mile is curated by Lisa Phillips, Director Emeritus, with Thalia Stefaniuk, Curatorial Assistant. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog co-published by the New Museum and Delmonico Press with essays by Lisa Phillips and Thalia Stefaniuk, and reflections by Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Sara Driver, Debbie Harry, Bob Holman, and Richard Price.     Sarah Morris, Director of Marketing and Communications, New Museum    press@newmuseum.org    212-219-1222 x 217 SUPPORT Major support is provided by the International Leadership Council of the New Museum, Donald Capoccia and Tommie Pegues, and an anonymous donor. Generous support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.   ABOUT NEW MUSEUM The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art. Founded in 1977, the New Museum is a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street, to the inauguration of its SANAA-designed flagship building in 2007, to the OMA-designed expansion of its home on the Bowery in 2026, the New Museum continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.    Image: Weegee, The Foreman Of The Devils Was Peeved... because the assistant devils were not in costume, 1945. © Weegee / International Center of Photography #newmuseum#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunnew#artfunculture #artfunhistory#artfunnow#artfunnyc

The Morgan Library & Museum receives $2.5 Million dollar award to preserve illuminated medieval manuscripts digitaly.

 Preserving history at the Morgan Library & Museum see below details. 

| The Morgan Library & Museum Awarded $2.5 Million from the Lilly Endowment

The Morgan Library & Museum Awarded $2.5 Million from the Lilly Endowment’s Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative to Make Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collection Accessible to All Through Digitalization, Education, and Outreach   New York, NY (August 5, 2026) – The Morgan Library & Museum has received a $2.5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment's Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative to support The Morgan Illuminated, a major project that will expand access to the Morgan's renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance religious manuscripts through a new digital portal, educational resources, and public programming. Hosted on the Morgan’s website, The Morgan Illuminated will provide free, cover-to-cover access to hundreds of the collection’s most significant illuminated manuscripts through a searchable digital portal, scheduled to launch in 2029. In addition to high-resolution images and robust search tools, the platform will feature educational resources and interpretive content exploring these manuscripts and the role of religion in shaping history, art, and culture. Through programming and research, which will launch prior to the digital portal, the project will also examine how the Morgan engages audiences with complex ideas related to religion and spirituality more broadly, encouraging dialogue and understanding about a variety of objects and related themes. #morganlibrarymuseum#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com #sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunlibrary#artfunhistory#artfunreading #artfunnow,=#artfunnyc

Catch The Whitney Biennial to see the entire exhibition of artists, and works on display throughout the museum. Details nelow.

 

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LAST CHANCE: WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2026 CLOSING SOON

Don’t miss the opportunity to see the art event of the season in its entirety!

New York, NY, August 5, 2026 — The Whitney Museum of American Art marks the final weeks of the 82nd edition of the Museum’s landmark exhibition series, Whitney Biennial 2026. A showcase of the evolving notions of American art, the 2026 Biennial features the work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives working across painting, sculpture, performance, digital art, and more. The exhibition, presented across most of the Museum’s gallery spaces, will be on view in its entirety through August 23. Select artworks displayed throughout the building and on the Museum’s 6th floor will remain on view through October 12. Whitney Biennial 2026 offers a vivid, atmospheric survey shaped by a moment of profound complexity. The work on view examines varied forms of relationality, from interspecies and familial kinships to geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and the infrastructures that support and constrain contemporary life. Rather than offering a definitive answer to life today, the exhibition foregrounds mood and texture, inviting visitors into environments that evoke tension, tenderness, humor, and unease, while proposing imaginative, unruly, and unexpected forms of coexistence. To experience Whitney Biennial 2026 in its final weeks, visitors can reserve timed tickets at whitney.org/admission. The Whitney offers free admission to visitors of all ages during Free Friday Nights, every Friday from 5–10 pm, and during Free Second Sundays, from 10:30 am–6 pm each month. Visitors twenty-five years and under and Whitney Museum Members are free anytime. Whitney Biennial 2026 is organized by Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, and Drew Sawyer, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, with Beatriz Cifuentes, Biennial Curatorial Assistant, and Carina Martinez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow. For press materials and additional assets, please visit the Whitney Biennial 2026 press kit here: whitney.org/press/2026-biennial. #whitneyartmuseum#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunmodern #artfunnow#artfunnyc#artfuncreative#artfunvisit

The White Room Gallery Exhibition Fierce August 18 through 30 2026 Opening reception August 20, 5-7PM.

THE WHITE ROOM GALLERY

Presents

FIERCE

AUG 18th to August 30th

OPENING RECEPTION THURS AUGUST 20TH 5-7PM

Curators’ Quote

BOLD AND CONFIDENT

INTENSE AND STRONG.   

The word fierce was first used in English during the 13th century, coming from the old French word fiers, which means proud and wild.   

This exhibit celebrates that spirit with tennis icons hanging alongside Hollywood icons.  Center court or center stage, it is all about the performance.  

Federer.  Nadal.  McEnroe.  Monroe.  Jagger.  Bardot.  

Forces of nature on the court meet forces of nature of the sea with photographs that capture the dynamic energy of the perfect splash.    

A heart made of mousetraps is a fierce commentary on love while paintings and photographs of bikinis take a walk on the wild side right in step with fishnets and stilettos.   

A female centric collage captures the fierceness of a woman in power while other female centric mixed media pieces comment on the wild trappings of privilege.   

Abstract paintings take the viewer on wild imaginings and pool parties come to life in wild illustrations while people stand proudly on chairs.  And what would a fierce exhibit be without a butterfly whose metamorphosis from a caterpillar is about as wild as it gets.   

A multitude of creative forces came together for this exhibit.  How else would you get to Fierce.’

SPECIAL FEATURE  FOR THIS EXHIBITION  INCLUDES GAME CHANGERS

 by contemporary sports artist TED DIMOND 

The Moments. The Matches. The Memories. 

Where Were You When History Took the Court?

More than an exhibition of tennis paintings, FIERCE is a visual journey through the matches, players, rivalries, and moments that shaped the history of the sport. Through a collection of original oil paintings, Dimond captures the emotion, drama, and significance of game changing moments that tennis fans remember forever.

From championship points and historic victories to legendary rivalries and breakthrough performances, each painting tells the story of a moment that became part of tennis history. Accompanying every work is a historical reference to the match, an iconic quote from the player, and a short narrative explaining why that moment remains significant in the history of the sport.

Featured throughout the exhibition are some of the most memorable voices in tennis history:

 “You cannot be serious!” — John McEnroe

 “Pressure is a privilege.” — Billie Jean King

 “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King

 “I never looked back.” — Arthur Ashe

 “I hate to lose more than I love to win.” — Jimmy Connors

 “Tennis uses the language of life.” — Andre Agassi

 “And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row.” — Vitas Gerulaitis

 “I never lost a match. I just ran out of time.” — Björn Borg

 

A highlight of the Opening night will be a special Player Portrait Unveiling Night, where a past/current ATP and WTA professional will appear in person to unveil original Ted Dimond portraits, meet fans, sign autographs, and share stories from their careers.   

 

Recent unveiling events have featured some of the sport’s most exciting stars, including Frances Tiafoe and Flavio Cobolli during the 2025 U.S. Open exhibition, and Jasmine Paolini, Sara Errani, and Jakub Mensik during the 2024 exhibition season.  Celebrities from tennis and other sports include Tom Brady, Joe Namath, Lawrence Taylor and Jack Nicklaus to name a few.

As a former professional tennis player, coach, and life long student of the game, Dimond brings a unique perspective to his work. His signature style combines traditional oil painting with multiple layers of clear polymer, creating a sense of movement, depth, and energy that mirrors the intensity of competition.

“Every tennis fan remembers where they were when certain moments happened,” said Ted Dimond. “McEnroe’s outburst. Ashe breaking barriers. Connors fighting until the last point. Vitas delivered one of the greatest lines in sports history. These paintings aren’t just about tennis—they’re about memories. They remind us why we fell in love with the game in the first place.

 

The paintings tell the stories of tennis history, but the unveiling nights bring those stories to life. Fans have the opportunity not only to see the artwork, but to meet the players who created these unforgettable moments and hear their stories firsthand.”

 

The exhibition will feature portraits of legendary champions including Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King, John McEnroe, Björn Borg, Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams, along with the game’s new generation of trailblazers including Coco Gauff, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, and João Fonseca.

 

FIERCE- The Moments. The Matches. The Memories. will be on view August 18–30, 2026, at The White Room Gallery. Original paintings and select limited-edition giclées will be available for acquisition throughout the exhibition.

 

ABOUT TED DIMOND

In the realm of sports portraiture, Ted Dimond is a visionary artist whose work bridges

his lifelong passions for both sport and art, resulting in striking portraits of iconic

athletes and cultural legends. Capturing the power and precision of athletes in motion, he has painted the likes of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Muhammad Ali, and Jack Nicklaus. His works have been showcased at Wimbledon, the French Open, MetLife Stadium, and the USTA Tennis Center. With an international perspective honed during a decade living, studying, and creating in France, Dimond brings a unique cultural lens to his work that celebrates sport as both performance and art.

GROUP SHOW ARTISTS 

John Joseph Hanright

Bob Tabor

Steve Moors

The Guys With The Same Name

Punk Me Tender

Cabell Molina

Rachel Paxton

And more….

PERMANENT COLLECTION INCLUDES

Russell Young

Nelson De La Nuez

Craig Alan

Greg Lotus

Markus Klinko

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