The painter Julie Mehretu donated $2 million to the art museum to encourage young people to visit. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. We’ll find out about the Whitney Museum’s plan ...

A citrus grove is currently growing on the 8th Floor galleries of the Whitney Museum, but not because the museum is converting those exhibition spaces into an orchard. The flora is part of a ...

Teresita Fernández, Fire (America) 3, 2016; Glazed ceramic, 72 × 144 × 1 1/4 in. (182.9 × 365.8 × 3.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchased with funds from the Painting and ...

Whitney died in January of 1825 in New Haven, Connecticut. Today, in nearby Hamden, there’s an Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop that aims to teach about the roots of design and invention.

Last year, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and yes, the Whitney all raised their ticket prices from $25 to $30. But Scott Rothkopf, the Whitney’s Alice Pratt Brown Director, understands ...