The Whitney Museum in New York houses one of the world's foremost collections of modern and contemporary American art.
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Betye Saar (b.1926), Mother and Children in Blue, 1998. Watercolor and mixed media collage on paper, 8 5/8 × 6 1/2 in. (21.9 × 16.5 cm) irregular. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Drawing Committee 2000.46. Permission courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, N.Y.
Stewart Uoo and Jana Euler: Outside Inside Sensibility opens tomorrow, May 10. In this exhibition, Uoo’s dystopic cyborg-mannequins are juxtaposed with Euler’s multilayered figurative painting within an environment designed by Uoo. Seen together, the works suggest new ways of thinking about contemporary portraiture.
Left: Jana Euler (b. 1982), How to be more than one without turning europe back to fascism, 2012. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 65 x 39.4 in. (165 × 100 cm). Private collection. Photograph by Hans-Christian Lotz; Image courtesy Sotoso, Brussles, and Dépendance, Brussels. Right: Stewart Uoo (b. 1985), Don’t Touch Me (Oil Spill), 2012. Polyurethane resin, ink, epoxy, wires, clothing, acrylic nails, accessories, ferrofluid, razor wire, hair, steel ball bearings, eyelashes, vinyl, insects, 63 × 16 × 45 in. (160 × 40.6 × 114.3 cm). Collection of the artist. Photograph by Joerg Lohse; image courtesy 47 Canal, New York
Construction on the Whitney’s new building in downtown Manhattan—open to the public in 2015—progressed significantly this spring. Learn more about the new building project at whitney.org/Future.
—Keith Haring, born today in 1958. Haring’s Altar Piece (1990) is on view now in I, YOU, WE.
The 2013 Art Party auction preview and sale closes at 3 pm today. Browse works by artists like Andrea Bowers, Kim McCarty, and Harif Guzman, and then bid on works in person at the Whitney Art Party tomorrow. Proceeds benefit the Whitney’s Independent Study Program and other educational initiatives.
In conjunction with Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, we’re screening Bruce Conner’s 1967 film THE WHITE ROSE—which captures the removal of DeFeo’s nearly one-ton masterpiece, The Rose, through the window of her second-story studio—through May 12.
Bruce Conner (1933–2008), still from THE WHITE ROSE, 1967. 16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 7 minutes. © Conner Famiy Trust. Image courtesy the Conner Family Trust
Featuring work by artists like Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, I, YOU, WE explores how notions of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and community inspired the work of artists during the turbulent 1980s and early ’90s. The exhibition is on view through September 1.
Donald Moffett (b. 1955), He Kills Me, 1987. Commercial print, 23 1/2 × 37 1/2 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of David W. Kiehl in memory of artists and artworkers who died of AIDS 2012.160. © Donald Moffett, 1987
An example of artful recycling in honor of Earth Day! To make Tuxedo Junction, Jay DeFeo reused fragments of a 1965 work called The Estocada. The earlier work was partially destroyed when she left her Fillmore Street studio.
Jay DeFeo (1929–1989), Tuxedo Junction, 1965/1974. Oil on paper mounted on Masonite (three parts), 48 3/4 × 32 1/2 in. (123.8 × 82.6 cm) each. Private collection. © 2013 The Jay DeFeo Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image courtesy The Jay DeFeo Trust, Berkeley, CA. Photograph by M. Lee Fatherree
“The blues doesn’t have to be played or sang.” Chuck D reflects on the meaning of the blues on the occasion of Blues for Smoke, on view through April 28.
“My mission is to capture light … its constant mystery, the way it shifts and colors everything around it in nature.”— Eric Cahan
Cahan contributed 40.862134,-72.408872 Sunset 6:34pm (2013)—part of his Sky Series—to the Whitney Art Party auction. The work is available through April 30 on Artsy, or bid on the work in person at the event on May 1. Proceeds benefit the Whitney’s Independent Study Program and other educational initiatives.
“Happiness seems to me a retrospective pleasure.”
David Hockney answers Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire in the May issue. His first video installation, The Jugglers, June 24th 2012, will premiere at the Whitney on May 23.
The 2013 Art Party auction preview and sale is now online! Browse works by 2012 Biennial participants Liz Deschenes and Oscar Tuazon, as well as work by renowned artists like Matthew Day Jackson, Liz Magic Laser, and Judith Bernstein, among others.
Purchase works online through April 30, or bid on works in person at the Whitney Art Party on May 1. Proceeds benefit the Whitney’s Independent Study Program and other educational initiatives.
Artists tour the Whitney’s new building site in downtown Manhattan, which will open in 2015.
From left to right: Whitney chief curator and deputy director for programs Donna De Salvo, Christo, Mark di Suvero, Hendel Teicher, Terry Winters, Jim Hodges, Frank Stella, Barbara Kruger, director Adam D. Weinberg, Lawrence Weiner, curator Carter Foster, Pat Steir, Marilyn Minter, Joost Elffers, T.J. Wilcox, Lauren Wolchik, and Harriet Stella.
With Calder’s The Cock’s Comb (1960) looking on, KOOL A.D., Amaze 88, and Loren Hell took the stage in the Museum’s lower gallery last night. The music continues through the weekend, as young artists present their contemporary spin on the blues tradition.
Jay DeFeo was born today in 1929. Explore the full breadth of her work in Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, on view through June 2.
DeFeo in Colorado, c. 1929 (top), and in California, c. 1932 (bottom). Photographs paired and printed by DeFeo in 1973. © 2013 The Jay DeFeo Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
