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Check out art that's created specifically for the web on artport—the Whitney's gallery space for Internet and new-media art.

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  • Three drunk male sailors canoodle with three women in a park.
    Three drunk male sailors canoodle with three women in a park.

    Paul Cadmus, Sailors and Floosies, 1938. Oil and tempera on linen mounted on composition board, with wood frame, overall (framed): 33 11/16 × 48 1/2 in. (85.6 × 123.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Malcolm S. Forbes 64.42a-b. © Estate of Paul Cadmus / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  • A rectangular green-yellow light patch on the floor shows a streetlamp silhouette and scattered bird shadows.
    A rectangular green-yellow light patch on the floor shows a streetlamp silhouette and scattered bird shadows.

    Paul Chan, 1st Light, 2005. Video installation, black-and-white and color, silent, 14 min., overall: 103 × 245 × 283 in. (261.6 × 622.3 × 718.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Film and Video Committee 2007.4. © Paul Chan, courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York

  • Empty two-story commercial buildings along an unoccupied street cast in soft sunlight.
    Empty two-story commercial buildings along an unoccupied street cast in soft sunlight.

    Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930. Oil on canvas, overall: 35 3/16 × 60 1/4 in. (89.4 × 153 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.426. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  • Abstract figure with colorful hair and various objects attached. Text reads "SHE'S HiT" at the top.
    Abstract figure with colorful hair and various objects attached. Text reads "SHE'S HiT" at the top.

    Jim Nutt, She's Hit, 1967. Acrylic on plexiglass, with wood frame, overall: 36 × 24 in. (91.4 × 61 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund 69.101

  • Black spiral overlay spirals inward toward a glowing orange triangle on a teal background.
    Black spiral overlay spirals inward toward a glowing orange triangle on a teal background.

    Mary Ellen Bute, Synchromy No. 4: Escape, 1937–1938. 16mm film, color, sound, 4 min., transferred to video, aspect Ratio: 4:3. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Film, Video, and New Media Committee 2014.101. © Estate of Mary Ellen Bute; courtesy Arsenal - Institut für film und videokunst, Berlin

  • A man in a leather jacket focuses as he lights a cigarette on a dimly lit street.
    A man in a leather jacket focuses as he lights a cigarette on a dimly lit street.

    Peter Hujar, David Lighting Up, 1985. Gelatin silver print, sheet (sight): 14 13/16 × 14 7/8 in. (37.6 × 37.8 cm) Image (sight): 14 5/8 × 14 3/4 in. (37.1 × 37.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.284. © The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Frank WANG Yefeng, The Levitating Perils #2

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