The Whitney Museum in New York houses one of the world's foremost collections of modern and contemporary American art.
This Wednesday, Blues for Smoke curator Bennett Simpson discusses the vitality and innovation at the core of the blues tradition as a major catalyst for experimentation within modern and contemporary art. Get your tickets now.
Jack Whitten (b. 1939), Black Table Setting (Homage to Duke Ellington), 1974. Acrylic on canvas, 72 × 60 inches. Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by Jack Drake and Joel and Karen Piassick
Opening February 7, Blues for Smoke brings into focus a wide range of contemporary art, music, literature, and film through the lens of the blues.
Bob Thompson (1937–1966), Garden of Music, 1960. Oil on canvas 79 1/2 x 143 in. (201.93 x 363.22 cm). Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection; courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Announcing For Teachers, a new section of whitney.org that brings the Whitney’s art and artists into your classroom through materials and resources developed especially for K–12 audiences. You can explore the Whitney’s collection, try out an activity with your students, learn how to prepare for a Museum visit, or check out teaching tips for working with modern and contemporary art.
The Wade Guyton OS exhibition catalogue is available from the Whitney Store, along with other Guyton-related items.
Wade Guyton OS opens today. Guyton’s work explores our changing relationships to images and artworks through the use of common digital technologies, such as the desktop computer, scanner, and inkjet printer.
View images from the exhibition on our website.
Yayoi Kusama’s “Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead at MoMA (Otherwise Known as the Museum of Modern Art)” took place on August 24, 1969 and made the front page of the Daily News the following day.
Kusama publicized the event, saying, “At the museum you can take your clothes off in good company: RENOIR, MAILLOL, GIACOMETTI, PICASSO.”
Image via Lisa Thatcher
Installation view of Sharon Hayes: There’s so much I want to say to you, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art June 21–September 9, 2012. Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins
Yayoi Kusama in her installation Fireflies on the Water (2002) two weeks ago. The room is currently on view at the Whitney as part of Kusama’s retrospective.
Photograph by Jason Schmidt, whose artist portraits are worth spending some time with.
Yayoi Kusama’s “Fireflies on the Water,” which explores the concept of infinity, is now on view. Our Kusama retrospective opens July 12.
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.
Learn about the Whitney’s upcoming Kusama exhibitions.
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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), Fireflies on the Water, 2002. © Yayoi Kusama. Photograph courtesy Robert Miller Gallery
This installation, one of Kusama’s “infinity mirror rooms,” was originally shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and is part of the Whitney’s collection. Fireflies goes on view June 13 in anticipation of a large Kusama retrospective, which opens July 12, 2012.
