As one of the first art museums to have the technology and flexible screening space for video art, the Whitney was a pioneer in foregrounding video as a “serious” artistic medium. This session will examine key moving image artworks in the Museum’s collection by artists such as Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman, and Howardena Pindell, and explore their role in contributing to the understanding of video within art history.
Whitney Museum of American Art presents Art History from Home: Asian American Perspectives. This series of online talks by the…
This session looks at the ways contemporary Black artists draw on collective memory to play with, challenge, and transform notions…
“Zoe Leonard: Survey” at the Whitney Museum of American Art is the artist’s first retrospective in a major American museum.…
In the twenty-first century, we find ourselves in increasingly media-saturated and mediated realities. This session explores how artists such as…