Exhibition programming presents contemporary art and provides access to artists.

And sometimes it is a Jewish museum that presents modern art.

"We are presenting visual art in conjunction with the opera," he said.

"It's the only institution in the city that presents art at the cutting edge."

The Whitney has consistently been willing to take the risk involved with presenting new art.

The gallery has been a leader in presenting Aboriginal art and artists.

Both exhibitions presented modern art to a public that was still not used to it.

They can present art, but never explain it.

Presenting public art, she says, is by far her favorite gig.

It also presented American conceptual and minimal art of the 1970s.