Take Part in a Whitney Museum Pop Up Event at The New York Transit Museum on July 27

The Whitney Museum of American Art is getting out of the galleries and into the boroughs in celebration of the 2024 Whitney Biennial. On Saturday, July 27, the Whitney is heading to Brooklyn for an artmaking project inspired by the Biennial at the New York Transit Museum.

Hundreds of New Yorkers have already participated in two previous “Whitney On The Rails” activations, including at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx and Union Square station in Manhattan as part of the Whitney’s ongoing efforts to connect more New Yorkers to contemporary American art, according to a press release. 

This Saturday, artists of all ages are invited to the Transit Museum to create colorful signs and sticker tile images, drawing inspiration from artist Jane Dickson’s vibrant pieces, Save Time (2020) and Fascination Sign 1 (2020), as well as Revelers (2008), her mosaic artwork at Times Sq-42 St station.

Dickson’s paintings were featured in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, a showcase of what’s new and exciting in contemporary American art, and a part of the NYC cultural landscape since 1932.

Through the Whitney’s multi-pronged partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a large-scale vinyl installation of Dickson’s Save Time is currently installed on the facade of a former retail space at the West Fourth Street station.

Dickson’s painting Dobbs Hat (1981) is also featured in Putting Artists on the Map, a digital map that showcases the long history of the Whitney Biennial in New York City and invites viewers to discover the locations of NYC spots depicted by Biennial artists, public art by Biennial artists, NY subway stations that include artworks by Biennial artists as part of the MTA Arts & Design program, and much more.

The map includes a side-by-side comparison of Times Square featuring the view from Dickson’s 43rd street apartment in Manhattan in 1981 and a present-day photograph from the same vantage point, along with many more then-and-now pairings throughout the city.

For New Yorkers looking to explore more about the Biennial’s history in New York City, they can visit whitney.org/map or the Whitney’s guide on the Bloomberg Connects app.

The 2024 Whitney Biennial is currently on view at the museum, located at 99 Gansevoort St., through August 11.