Whitney Museum of American Art

About Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art.

maravilla grid — Guadalupe Maravilla was brought to the United States by a coyote (or human trafficker) as an undocumented eight-year-old, fleeing civil war in El Salvador—and his work grapples with that experience

Guadalupe Maravilla, Requiem For My Border Crossing

by Whitney Museum of American Art

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Buddhism in China

from the Han through the Tang dynasties