Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Step inside the Whitney Museum of American Art’s landmark exhibition Sixties Surreal, on view September 2025 - January 2026.
This ambitious show reexamines American art from 1958 to 1972 through the lens of the "surreal," both inherited and reinvented. Featuring over 100 artists, the exhibition explores how painters, sculptors, photographers, and filmmakers channeled the psychosexual, fantastical, and revolutionary energy of an era shaped by civil rights, feminism, war, and cultural upheaval.
Speakers, in order of appearance:
Scott Rothkopf, Alice Pratt Brown Director
Laura Phipps, Associate Curator
Dan Nadel, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints
Kim Conaty, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator
Find more information about the exhibition and plan your visit at whitney.org
Step inside the Whitney Museum of American Art’s landmark exhibition Sixties Surreal, on view September 2025 - January 2026.
This ambitious show reexamines American art from 1958 to 1972 through the lens of the "surreal," both inherited and reinvented. Featuring over 100 artists, the exhibition explores how painters, sculptors, photographers, and filmmakers channeled the psychosexual, fantastical, and revolutionary energy of an era shaped by civil rights, feminism, war, and cultural upheaval.
Speakers, in order of appearance:
Scott Rothkopf, Alice Pratt Brown Director
Laura Phipps, Associate Curator
Dan Nadel, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints
Kim Conaty, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator
Find more information about the exhibition and plan your visit at whitney.org
