WATCH & LISTEN: WALEAD BESHTY
WALEAD BESHTY ON HIS 2008 WHITNEY BIENNIAL INSTALLATION
2008 Whitney Biennial artist Walead Beshty discusses his photographs of the former Iraqi embassy to the former East Germany (two nations that no longer exist) and the complex ideas behind them. He also explains why his glass sculptures have acquired multiple cracks and fissures. DownloadTranscript
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SEMINARS WITH ARTISTS: JAMES WELLING AND WALEAD BESHTY
Photographers Welling and Beshty both take up the representational field of photography itself as the subject of their works, often producing abstractly beautiful compositions of common objects.
Launched in the late 1960s as one of the Museum’s first public programs, Seminars with Artists is an open forum for conversations with some of the most notable American artists. This season’s series of talks features artists exhibiting in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
