The Whitney Museum in New York houses one of the world's foremost collections of modern and contemporary American art.
Before celebrating the best movies of 2012, revisit some rarely seen films, advertisements, and political campaign messages of the 1960s in Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV and the Movies.
George Kuchar (1942–2011), still from HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED, 1966. 16mm film transferred to video, color, sound; 17 min. Image courtesy the Estate of George Kuchar. © The Estate of George Kuchar
Experience the cold weather from the warmth of the Museum with this Joel Meyerowitz photograph, on view now in Sinister Pop.
Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938), JFK Airport, 1968, from The Early Works, 1999. Gelatin silver print. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Ronald B. Milch 2000.286.1
Organized in conjunction with Sinister Pop, Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV and the Movies explores a similarly dark atmosphere in television and underground cinema of the 1960s.
View installation photography and images of works on view in Dark and Deadpan.
“I want to go to heaven knowing that I have created color in my own and other people’s lives.”
Yayoi Kusama on CBS Sunday Morning. Only a few more weeks to see Kusama’s retrospective before it closes September 30!
Submit questions for Kusama curator David Kiehl now. We’ll post his answers on Twitter for #askacurator day September 19.
Yayoi Kusama in her New York studio in 1960.
Yayoi Kusama, a major retrospective of the Japanese artist’s work, will be on view at the Whitney July 12-September 30, 2012. Kusama’s “infinity mirror room” Fireflies on the Water is on view now in the Whitney’s lobby gallery.
Photograph via W Magazine, courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Victoria Miro Gallery, London/Gagosian Gallery, New York/Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc.
