Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Edges of Ailey, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art on September 25, is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey.
On September 18, 2024, the museum hosted a press preview featuring remarks by Scott Rothkopf, the Alice Pratt Brown Director; Adrienne Edwards, curator of Edges of Ailey and the Whitney’s Engell Speyer Family Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Programs; Bennett Rink, Executive Director, AILEY; Sylvia Waters, Artistic Director Emerita, Ailey II; and Allan S. Gray II, Founder, Chairman Emeritus, Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey and Chairman, Allan Gray Alvin Ailey Archives Family Foundation
Edges of Ailey, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art on September 25, is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey.
On September 18, 2024, the museum hosted a press preview featuring remarks by Scott Rothkopf, the Alice Pratt Brown Director; Adrienne Edwards, curator of Edges of Ailey and the Whitney’s Engell Speyer Family Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Programs; Bennett Rink, Executive Director, AILEY; Sylvia Waters, Artistic Director Emerita, Ailey II; and Allan S. Gray II, Founder, Chairman Emeritus, Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey and Chairman, Allan Gray Alvin Ailey Archives Family Foundation
