The Whitney Museum in New York houses one of the world's foremost collections of modern and contemporary American art.
On behalf of the Whitney Museum, The Standard, New York, and High Line Art, we’d like to congratulate the winner of our blps photo contest Sarah Butler. Here’s one of her great submissions.
Learn more about Richard Artschwager, the artist behind the blps, on whitney.org.
Here’s a few great recent submissions to our Document Blps and Win! project.
Feeling inspired? Email photos of Artschwager’s blps to blps@standardhotel.com. All participants will be entered for a chance to win a prize package from the Whitney Museum, The Standard, New York, and High Line Art. Visit whitney.org for more information.
Check out this fun video documenting the installation of Richard Artschwager’s blps. Feeling inspired? Take some of your own blp photos, and email them to blps@standardhotel.com. Randomly selected submissions will be featured here, whitney.org, and Facebook, plus all participants will be entered in a drawing for an amazing prize package from the Whitney, The Standard, New York, and High Line Art.
In conjunction with our Richard Artschwager retrospective opening this Thursday, a series of the artist’s blps are being installed along and on the horizon of the High Line, near the future home of the Whitney, as well as on the Museum’s current building uptown.
Artschwager first created his blps—a word coined by the artist and pronounced, “blips”—in the late 1960s. This installation consists of black lozenge-shaped marks meant to inspire focused looking and draw our attention to the places and things around us that often go unnoticed.
Photograph by Markus Marty
Don’t miss the dots! Yayoi Kusama’s outdoor installation at Hudson River Park will be de-installed tomorrow. Kusama’s retrospective continues at the Whitney through this Sunday.
Yayoi Kusama with her installation Guidepost to the New Space at Hudson River Park Pier 45, New York, July 2012. Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery, New York
Beautiful shots of Yayoi Kusama’s Guidepost to the New Space, now on view at Hudson River Park’s Pier 45 at Christopher Street.
Simply awesome Yayoi Kusama! Thanks to you and the Whitney Museum for making our city of New York a bit more playful and so much fun!
Yayoi Kusama visited her new summer installation on Pier 45 at Christopher Street today. Thanks to the Hudson River Park Trust and Gagosian Gallery for collaborating on this installation!
To mark Yayoi Kusama’s retrospective at the Whitney, we’ve collaborated with the Hudson River Park Trust and Gagosian Gallery to present a special art project near the Whitney’s future home in the Meatpacking District. Visitors to Pier 45 can enjoy Kusama’s playful and endearing multi-part installation Guidepost to the New Space (2004) throughout the summer.
John C. Welchman, co-director of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, gave a lovely presentation on Kelley’s work on May 20, 2012. One of Welchman’s slides, above, features photos of Kelley and his childhood home, which was the inspiration for his Mobile Homestead project.
The 2012 Biennial is dedicated to Mike Kelley.
