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Josh Kline’s video Crying Games imagines the people responsible for the 2003 Iraq War—then US President George W. Bush; his cabinet members Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and Donald Rumsfeld; and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair—in a political fantasy about accountability, justice, and contrition that will likely never come to pass.
Predating AI-generated deepfakes by only a few years, the early open-source face-swapping software Kline used here allowed him to replace his actors' faces with those of the politicians they played. The software applies a mask over the actor in real time which often leads to glitches, occasionally breaking the illusion to reveal the faces of the unfamiliar actors beneath.
Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century is on view through August 13.
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Josh Kline’s video Crying Games imagines the people responsible for the 2003 Iraq War—then US President George W. Bush; his cabinet members Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and Donald Rumsfeld; and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair—in a political fantasy about accountability, justice, and contrition that will likely never come to pass.
Predating AI-generated deepfakes by only a few years, the early open-source face-swapping software Kline used here allowed him to replace his actors' faces with those of the politicians they played. The software applies a mask over the actor in real time which often leads to glitches, occasionally breaking the illusion to reveal the faces of the unfamiliar actors beneath.
Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century is on view through August 13.
#JoshKline #whitneymuseum #nycart #contemporaryart
Inheritance is now open!
Our newest exhibition presents a remarkable collection of works by leading artists—including Deana Lawson, Faith Ringgold, and Cameron Rowland—exploring the impact of legacy across familial, historical, and aesthetic lines. Many of these works have never before been shown at the Whitney.
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Our newest exhibition presents a remarkable collection of works by leading artists—including Deana Lawson, Faith Ringgold, and Cameron Rowland—exploring the impact of legacy across familial, historical, and aesthetic lines. Many of these works have never before been shown at the Whitney.
#whitneymuseum #nycart #nycmuseums #nycdatenight #museumdate #contemporaryart
Dan Graham's Portal opens tomorrow!
Portal is one of the dozens of structures known as pavilions that the conceptual artist made for public spaces all over the world beginning in the 1980s. Before his death in 2022, Graham conceived of Portal for this particular site and vantage point from the Whitney's sixth floor terrace and to be experienced among the glass and steel architecture of the Museum's building.
One of the most important elements of the work is visitor interaction! Take a walk through the artwork, capture pictures or selfies, and treat it like a walk-in fun house mirror. That's what Graham intended: for Portal to be activated by the visitor inside of it.
#whitneymuseum #dangraham #nycart #nycmuseums #nycdatenight
Portal is one of the dozens of structures known as pavilions that the conceptual artist made for public spaces all over the world beginning in the 1980s. Before his death in 2022, Graham conceived of Portal for this particular site and vantage point from the Whitney's sixth floor terrace and to be experienced among the glass and steel architecture of the Museum's building.
One of the most important elements of the work is visitor interaction! Take a walk through the artwork, capture pictures or selfies, and treat it like a walk-in fun house mirror. That's what Graham intended: for Portal to be activated by the visitor inside of it.
#whitneymuseum #dangraham #nycart #nycmuseums #nycdatenight
Something new is coming soon to the fifth floor terrace! Rose B. Simpson: Counterculture is our latest outdoor exhibition opening just in time for summer.
For Simpson, the five figures on view here—cast in concrete in colors reminiscent of her work in clay—remind us that "we are not independent, that the inanimate are watching, and that we are responsible not only to the present but to the ancestral spirits that inhabit a particular place."
See these starting this weekend at the Museum!
#whitneymuseum #rosebsimpson #indigenousartist #womenartists
For Simpson, the five figures on view here—cast in concrete in colors reminiscent of her work in clay—remind us that "we are not independent, that the inanimate are watching, and that we are responsible not only to the present but to the ancestral spirits that inhabit a particular place."
See these starting this weekend at the Museum!
#whitneymuseum #rosebsimpson #indigenousartist #womenartists
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith collaborated with her son Neal Ambrose-Smith on this moving sculpture.
Warrior for the 21st Century periodically dances to the sound of a rattle while a voice counts to ten in the Salish language. The work is constructed of objects that, as Ambrose-Smith notes, are "all the things that you might need as a warrior for the 21st century," from aspirin and echinacea to playing cards.
The warrior also carries a copy of the 1855 Treaty of Hellgate, which established the reservation lands of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, where Smith was born and returns to often; it serves as a reminder of past struggles with the federal government and the limitations of working within a colonial legal structure to protect land, water, and resources.
#whitneymuseum #womenartists #jaunequicktoseesmith #nycart #nativeamericanartist
Warrior for the 21st Century periodically dances to the sound of a rattle while a voice counts to ten in the Salish language. The work is constructed of objects that, as Ambrose-Smith notes, are "all the things that you might need as a warrior for the 21st century," from aspirin and echinacea to playing cards.
The warrior also carries a copy of the 1855 Treaty of Hellgate, which established the reservation lands of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, where Smith was born and returns to often; it serves as a reminder of past struggles with the federal government and the limitations of working within a colonial legal structure to protect land, water, and resources.
#whitneymuseum #womenartists #jaunequicktoseesmith #nycart #nativeamericanartist
