Tag: Whitney Museum of American Art
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Kim Conaty – interview: ‘Ruth Asawa pursued drawing throughout her life, the sculpture coming from it, wire the equivalent of line’
Conaty, the Whitney Museum’s curator of prints and drawings, explains what led her to organise a show of Asawa’s drawings rather than the wire sculptures for which she is famed
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map
In the first New York retrospective of the artist’s work, covering almost five decades, she offers a view of US history, geography and government policy through an Indigenous lens
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Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-45
Following the Mexican Revolution of 1920, art that reflected the country’s traditions and social ideals blossomed – and, for a while, the US fervently embraced it
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Whitney Biennial 2019
Edition 2019 looks great, goes wide and speaks loudly, but is it off mission? Lost in this bi-coastal perceived zeitgeist of identity politics is an unbiased survey of art-making with no agenda but the deep need to make it, and…
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Frank Stella: A Retrospective
As Stella is the first living artist to be shown at the Whitney Museum’s new downtown space, the exhibition is by definition a mission statement
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Documenting the Obvious: Picasso and American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 28 September 2006–28 January 2007
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The Art of Romare Bearden
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 14 October 2004-9 January 2005 High Museum of Art, Atlanta 29 January-24 April 2005
