As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art, and its collectionarguably the finest holding of twentieth-century American art in the worldis the Museum's key resource. The Museum's signature exhibition, the Biennial, is the country's leading survey of the most recent developments in American art.Cover image: Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), Rckenfigur, 2009 (installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York). Neon and paint, 24 145 1/2 5 in. (61 369.6 12.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 2011.3a-i. Glenn Ligon