Whitney Museum Marks 25 Years of artport with Major Internet Art Exhibition

Key facts

• "artport: A History of Internet Art" opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art on November 21, 2026
• The Whitney launched artport in 2001 as an online gallery for commissioned Internet and new-media art
• The exhibition features more than 100 works commissioned specifically for artport over 25 years
• It is organized around three commissioning categories: Gate Pages (2001–2006), Commissions, and Sunrise/Sunset (2009–2024)
• Sunrise/Sunset was succeeded by On the Hour, which uses whitney.org as a site for artistic intervention
• The sixth-floor galleries are designed to evoke floating browser windows
• Douglas Davis's The World's First Collaborative Sentence (1994, donated 1995) was restored to functionality in 2012
• Human Unreadable Act III by Operator premieres November 19, 21, and 22 in the Susan and John Hess Family Theater
• The exhibition is organized by Christiane Paul, David Lisbon, and Colin Brooks
• Original artport websites from 2001 and 2002 remain accessible online