PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens close their ecosexual climate trilogy with a film about fire, narrated partly by a white peacock, and they open each show with a performative "Ecosex 101."
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VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 1
Six experimental shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer, from a seductive address out of a black void to a work on tickling, with memory, state power and invisibility in between. She attends in person.
Archtober: Ancestral Ecologies Sunset Tour
The garden's curators walk you through a site-specific exhibition of new work by the first fellows of a new art and environment fellowship, with the tour timed for sunset.
Panel Discussion: Photography Education
Four people who run photography programs talk about who gets to tell the story: Shahidul Alam of Pathshala, Helen Alonzo Hurtado of Las Fotos Project, Gary Knight of VII, and Michael Kamber.
Exhibition Tour: The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
A guided walk through the Minnie Evans exhibition, with the Whitney's own guide helping you read the work up close. A good way to see her art with some context rather than wandering alone.
VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 2
Four short films by Vika Kirchenbauer take on the art economy, from diversity as cultural currency to the colonial money behind early public exhibitions. The filmmaker attends in person.
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 2: ON BEING A WOMAN
Nine animated shorts by women, from a 1930s Lotte Reiniger film to Signe Baumane's Birth, with Faith Hubley and Caroline Leaf in between, all on the subject of being a woman.
Grieving & Weaving
A knitting and crochet circle that meets in a cemetery chapel, with experimental vocalist Gelsey Bell performing work on the many faces of loss. Bring a project or learn from scratch.
Exhibition Tour: “Untitled” (America)
A guided walk through the exhibition "Untitled" (America) at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A sensible way to see the show with someone talking you through the galleries.
Exhibition Tour: Whitney Biennial 2026
A guided walk through the Whitney Biennial, the museum's survey of new American art. A tour is a good way to get oriented and hear how the show's pieces fit together.
Studio Salon: Primary: After and With Alma Thomas
A conversation and reading built around Primary: After and With Alma Thomas, a book on the painter. It's part of the museum's own Studio Salon series, held on The Stoop.
Block by Block: Streetscapes
Stoops and streetscapes from the Greenest Block in Brooklyn winners, rebuilt on the garden's grounds and co-created with the gardeners who grew them. Plenty of ideas for your own stoop.
Verbal Description Tour: Geometries
A guided tour of the Geometries exhibition built around verbal description, so blind and low-vision visitors can take in the work through spoken detail. Part of the museum's access programs.
Ancestral Ecologies
Four multisensory installations from the Heidi Nitze Art × Environment Fellows, each using a different environmental or material phenomenon to explore animist ways of seeing the living world.
