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What's colorful, 120 feet long, and has a big red bear? 🧸 It's our new public art installation by Alake Shilling!
Co-commissioned by the Whitney and the @nyc_dot ’s Arterventions program, Buggy Bear Goes on a Cool Cruise is the latest in a series of paintings and sculptures that depict Buggy Bear, a character imagined by Los Angeles-based artist.
Check out the mural across from the Museum on Gansevoort Street & 10th Avenue.
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Co-commissioned by the Whitney and the @nyc_dot ’s Arterventions program, Buggy Bear Goes on a Cool Cruise is the latest in a series of paintings and sculptures that depict Buggy Bear, a character imagined by Los Angeles-based artist.
Check out the mural across from the Museum on Gansevoort Street & 10th Avenue.
#whitneymuseum #getcultured #womenartists #nycmuseums #nycart #nycpublicart
This book encased in a restaurant wine list arrived to the Whitney's library still wet.
It's our second episode of #ShelfExploration starring managing librarian Ivy Blackman! Today she tells us about Smoosh Book by Mitsu Okubo, which took 18 months to fully dry. 👀
#librarytok #librarytiktok #getcultured #museumtok #whitneymuseum
It's our second episode of #ShelfExploration starring managing librarian Ivy Blackman! Today she tells us about Smoosh Book by Mitsu Okubo, which took 18 months to fully dry. 👀
#librarytok #librarytiktok #getcultured #museumtok #whitneymuseum
Details in Ilana Savdie’s paintings ❤️🔥
Savdie explores themes of identity, power, transgression, and performance in her large-scale paintings. She uses acrylic, oil, and beeswax to create these vibrant works.
On view now through Nov 5 at the Whitney.
#getcultured #whitneymuseum #contemporaryart #latinxartists #womenartists #ilanasavdie
Savdie explores themes of identity, power, transgression, and performance in her large-scale paintings. She uses acrylic, oil, and beeswax to create these vibrant works.
On view now through Nov 5 at the Whitney.
#getcultured #whitneymuseum #contemporaryart #latinxartists #womenartists #ilanasavdie
What does Bruce Springsteen have in common with this tarot deck? So glad you asked. ❤️🔥
Our new series #ShelfExploration stars Managing Librarian Ivy Blackman. 📖 Each week, join us for a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most fun and unique books in the Whitney's library.
#librarytok #tarotok #tarotcards #getcultured #whitneymuseum #tarottok
Our new series #ShelfExploration stars Managing Librarian Ivy Blackman. 📖 Each week, join us for a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most fun and unique books in the Whitney's library.
#librarytok #tarotok #tarotcards #getcultured #whitneymuseum #tarottok
On August 18, 1982, Lorraine O'Grady hosted a site-specific performance in Central Park—Rivers, First Draft.
Described as a "collage-in-space," with multiple actions unfolding at the same time across different locations, this highly personal work examines the artist's family history, her experience growing up in New England as the child of Caribbean immigrants, and her development as an artist.
Photographs of the performance are on view now in our exhibition Inheritance. On the occasion, O'Grady spoke with us about the work.
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Described as a "collage-in-space," with multiple actions unfolding at the same time across different locations, this highly personal work examines the artist's family history, her experience growing up in New England as the child of Caribbean immigrants, and her development as an artist.
Photographs of the performance are on view now in our exhibition Inheritance. On the occasion, O'Grady spoke with us about the work.
#whitneymuseum #nycart #nycmuseums
Wanna see some creepy art?
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
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.
#whitneymuseum #nycart #nycmuseums #nycdatenight #museumdate #contemporaryart
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
