"Untitled" (America)

Contemporary works exploring American identity and cultural narratives.

Why go

The exhibition centers on Felix Gonzalez-Torres's eponymous light-bulb work illuminating a gallery window—a meditation on America as both dream and lived reality—while surveying the Whitney's holdings to explore how artists have grappled with defining "America" across nearly a century.

What to expect

Works across painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media installed on Floor 7, ranging from figurative and realist traditions (Hopper, O'Keeffe, Bellows) through abstraction (Rothko, Newman, Still) to Pop and contemporary practice (Warhol, Basquiat, Johns), with Noguchi sculptures and Gonzalez-Torres's string lights as anchoring installations

Things to know

• Organized by Kim Conaty, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, with Antonia Pocock.
• Opened July 5, 2025, on continuous view with no end date announced.
• Dedicated to the memory of Leonard A. Lauder, Chairman Emeritus.
• Features works by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (founder, 1930) alongside contemporary acquisitions.
• Includes major works: Jasper Johns's Three Flags, Warhol's Ethel Scull 36 Times, Basquiat's Hollywood Africans.
• Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" (America) serves as the exhibition's conceptual anchor and window installation.