Locating Downtown
Program guide for Locating Downtown, hosted by New York University Special Collections and the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 23-25, 2026.
Attentive to the multifaceted and deeply interdisciplinary nature of downtown cultural production, Locating Downtown seeks to create opportunities to reconsider this period through cross-disciplinary exploration and cultural exchange. Underpinning this investigation is a desire to bring together different methodological approaches to the study of downtown New York—its artists, archives, institutions, and histories.
Friday's full day of presentations will be complemented by visits to galleries, museums, and archives in New York on Saturday, and additional presentations at the Whitney Museum on Sunday.
UPDATE 01/23/26: Due to the severe winter weather expected in New York City this weekend, the events scheduled for SUNDAY at the Whitney will no longer occur in person. Check the full event schedule on this site for further details about these events, and check Whitney.org for updates about museum hours of operation.
