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

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

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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

AGNES PELTON: DESERT TRANSCENDENTALIST: Curatorial tour Live streams today!

AGNES PELTON: DESERT TRANSCENDENTALIST Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street The curatorial tour will be live-streamed:  please note that the remarks will be live-streamed and saved on the Whitney’s YouTube channel.  ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Agnes Pelton (1881–1961) was a visionary symbolist who depicted the spiritual reality she experienced in moments of meditative stillness. Using an abstract vocabulary of curvilinear, biomorphic forms and delicate, shimmering veils of light, she portrayed her awareness of a world that lay behind physical appearances—a world of benevolent, disembodied energies animating and protecting life. Pelton’s isolation from the mainstream art world meant that her paintings were relatively unknown during her lifetime and in the decades thereafter. This exhibition of approximately forty-five works, ranging from 1917 to 1960, forefronts a little-known artist whose luminous, abstract images of transcendence are only now being fully recognized. Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is organized by the Phoenix Art Museum, and curated by Gilbert Vicario, The Selig Family Chief Curator. The installation at the Whitney is overseen by Barbara Haskell, curator, with Sarah Humphreville, senior curatorial assistant. Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY 10014 whitney.org #whitney museum,#fineartmagazine

Catch The Whitney Museum announces 300 recent acquisitions. Catch the Biannual May 17-September 22.

WHITNEY MUSEUM ANNOUNCES 300 RECENT ACQUISITIONS AND 60 ARTISTS NEW TO THE COLLECTION, INCLUDING NINA CHANEL ABNEY, MERIEM BENNANI, ED CLARK, BARBARA HAMMER, CHANNA HORWITZ, SIMONE LEIGH, WILLA NASATIR, MARY WEATHERFORD, AND OTHERS NEW YORK, April 9, 2019—The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that it has acquired 300 works of art in the last six months. As a result of these acquisitions, 60 new artists and collectives have entered the collection. Several of the acquisitions were first presented in the Whitney's ongoing series of exhibitions focused on emerging artists, including Carolina Caycedo and Lena Henke (Between the Waters, 2018), Christine Sun Kim (Christine Sun Kim: Too Much Future, 2018), Guadalupe Maravilla, Ronny Quevedo, and Clarissa Tossin (Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, 2018), and Willa Nasatir (Willa Nasatir, 2017). In addition, the Whitney deepened its commitment to artists already represented in the collection by adding works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Carol Bove, Bruce Conner, John Currin, Roe Ethridge, Nan Goldin, David Hammons, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, Wu Tsang, David Wojnarowicz, Grant Wood, and others. “The Whitney’s collection is a living, growing, and dynamic resource that allows us to continually reframe the history of American life and artistic culture. Our new acquisitions permit us to present new art histories, especially when we put those works on the Whitney’s walls so soon after acquiring them. Recent acquisitions such as Emma Amos’s Baby (1966) and Kay WalkingStick’s April Contemplating May (1972) are now displayed in Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s, and an important 1959 painting by Ed Clark will reenergize our understanding of mid-century painting when it hangs this summer as part of a new collection display,” noted David Breslin, DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the Collection. Scott Rothkopf, Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator added: “We’re thrilled that many of our recent acquisitions, particularly by artists new to the collection, arose through our reenergized emerging artist program. This continues our historical commitment to acquiring works by contemporary artists directly from our groundbreaking exhibitions and allows us to extend our dialogue with these artists as stewards of their work. We also are delighted that twelve of the artists in the upcoming Whitney Biennial are already in the collection, including Meriem Bennani, Barbara Hammer, Simone Leigh, and Christine Sun Kim, whose works have just entered the collection for the first time.” The Whitney’s collection includes nearly 25,000 works created by some 3,500 artists during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This focus on the contemporary, along with a deep respect for artists’ creative process and vision, has guided the Museum’s collecting ever since its founding in 1930. The collection begins with Ashcan School painting and follows the major movements of the twentieth century in America, with strengths in  modernism and Social Realism, Precisionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, art centered on identity and politics that came to the fore in the 1980s and 1990s, and contemporary work. View and download a PDF of recent acquisitions. 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 at a time 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 more than eighty 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 themselves, 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. CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 Through April 14 Derek Fordjour: Half Mast Through May 5 Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1900–1960 Through June 2 Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s Through Summer 2019 Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise April 26–27 2019 Whitney Biennial May 17–September 22, 2019 The Whitney Collection: Selections from 1900–1965 Opens Summer 2019 Jason Moran September 20, 2019–January 5, 2020 Rachel Harrison October 25, 2019–January 12, 2020 Alan Michelson: Wolf Nation October 25, 2019–January 12, 2020 Pope.L: Instigation, Aspiration, Perspiration Opens October 2019 Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 February–May 2020 Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist Opens Spring 2020 Julie Mehretu June 26–September 20, 2020 Public Art Project: Day's End 2020 Jasper Johns Opens Fall 2020 Dawoud Bey Opens November 2020 The Whitney Museum of American Art is located at 99 Gansevoort Street between Washington and West Streets, New York City. Museum hours are: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday from 10:30 am to 6 pm; Friday and Saturday from 10:30 am to 10 pm. Closed Tuesday except in July and August. Adults: $25. Full-time students, visitors 65 & over, and visitors with disabilities: $18. Visitors 18 years & under and Whitney members: FREE. Admission is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 7–10 pm. For general information, please call (212) 570-3600 or visit whitney.org. #fineartmagazine