Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Josh Kline

The Whitney Museum of American Art celebrates the final weeks of exhibitions that showcase the exceptional careers of two leading artists, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map and Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century. Both exhibitions close on Sunday, August 13.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map is the largest and most comprehensive showcase of Smith's groundbreaking fifty-year career. A citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Smith has charted an exceptional and unorthodox career as an artist, activist, curator, educator, and advocate. The exhibition highlights how Smith uses her drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures to tell stories that flip commonly held conceptions of historical narratives and illuminate absurdities in the formation of dominant culture. Including more than 130 works, the exhibition offers a new framework to consider contemporary Native American art.

Following its premiere at the Whitney, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map will travel to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (October 15, 2023–January 21, 2024) and the Seattle Art Museum (February 29–May 12, 2024).

Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century is the first mid-career survey of Josh Kline's work by an American museum. The exhibition examines how climate change, automation, contagion, and politics shape work and life in twenty-first-century America. Offering a thematic examination of over fifteen years of the artist's work, the exhibition includes Kline's major new cycle of work that focuses on the climate crisis and projects that have never been seen in New York. Kline is best known for creating immersive installations using video, sculpture, photography, and design to question how emergent technologies are changing human life in the twenty-first century.

To see the exhibitions in their final weeks, visitors can get tickets at whitney.org. Kids and teens are always free at the Whitney, and Members enjoy any time admission when they show their membership cards. The Museum also offers a suite of free and discounted ticket offerings, including pay-what-you-wish Friday evenings.

Exhibition galleries tours are available free with Museum admission for Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 1 pm; Fridays at 1 pm and 8 pm during pay-what-you-wish Friday evenings; Saturdays at 12:30 pm and 3 pm; and Sundays at 12:30 pm. Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century tours are available on Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 pm. 

Source: Whitney Museum Press Office