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Job Postings

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:43:56 -0400

About/JobPostings

Thank you for your interest in the Whitney Museum of American Art. To apply for a position, please send your resume, cover letter, and salary requirements to hr@whitney.org or:

Whitney Museum of American Art
Human Resources Department
945 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10021

Please be advised that due to the high volume of applications, we are only able to contact those candidates whose skills and background best fit the requirements of the job openings or internships. We will keep your resume on file should appropriate future openings become available. Please do not send catalogues or original materials. The Museum cannot assume responsibility for any original materials which are submitted. No calls, please.

Robert Irwin: Scrim Veil—black Rectangle—natural Light, Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York (1977)

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:35:36 -0400

Exhibitions/RobertIrwin

Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977), by California Light and Space artist Robert Irwin, is a large-scale installation that uniquely engages the Whitney’s iconic Breuer building and the natural light that emanates from the large window in the fourth floor gallery space. Part of the Whitney’s collection, the work was made specifically for the Museum’s fourth floor. It has not been exhibited since its 1977 debut, a pivotal moment that would set the course for Irwin’s subsequent artistic practice.

The presentation will be accompanied by a digitized version of the original Robert Irwin catalogue, published by the Whitney at the time of his 1977 exhibition, which includes an ambitious combination of images, project plans, and theoretical texts written by Irwin himself as well as biographical and exhibition information compiled by the exhibition’s curator, Richard Marshall. The catalogue will be updated with a new introduction by Whitney Chief Curator Donna De Salvo and will be available for viewing exclusively at whitney.org.

Robert Irwin: Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977) is organized by Donna De Salvo, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs.

Whitney Press Office

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:02:56 -0400

Press/Archive

Whitney Press Office

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:59:26 -0400

Welcome to the Whitney’s online Press Office. Members of the media may view and download information for current and upcoming exhibitions and programs, access the press release archive, and download high-resolution images and video.

Douglas Davis

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:57:55 -0400

Exhibitions/Artport/DouglasDavis

The World’s First Collaborative Sentence, created by Douglas Davis for a survey exhibition of his work in 1994 and donated to the Whitney in 1995, is a “classic” of Internet art. Allowing users to contribute to a never-ending sentence, it anticipated today’s blog environments and ongoing posts. In early 2012 the Whitney Museum undertook a preservation effort spearheaded by Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Associate Director of Conservation and Research and Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media, in concert with Farris Wahbeh, Manager, Cataloguing and Documentation, and implemented by Ben Fino-Radin, digital conservator at Rhizome, and the Museum’s Digital Media department. The result of the initiative are the two versions of the Sentence accessible here.

Learn more about the work’s preservation, view the live Sentence, and contribute by adding your own words.

Film &Amp; Video

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:32:38 -0400

Exhibitions/Film

The Film and Video program at the Whitney Museum began with the creation of the New American Filmmakers series in 1970. Developed in response to a new generation of filmmakers who were producing works outside the studio system, the series presented independent and experimental films that reflected many of the key issues of the day, from the Vietnam War, drugs, and the Black Panthers, to homosexuality and the women’s liberation movement. The series was launched with Skezag (1970) by Joel Freedman and Philip Messina, a searing documentary on Vietnam veterans and hard drugs. Several other key films premiered at the Whitney at that time, including Norman Mailer’s Maidstone (1971) and Steven Arnold’s Luminous Procuress (1972).

With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Film and Video Gallery on the Museum’s second floor was outfitted to be a flexible exhibition space for films, videos, and installations. The creation of a Film and Video Gallery within the larger galleries was—and remains—a unique innovation. Its flexible design allowed for installations of film and video as well as the screening of films in a theatrical setting. Additionally, unlike in other museums, the gallery has a fully equipped film booth, with Super-8, 16mm, 35mm film, and video projection.

Film and video were soon fully integrated into the Whitney’s exhibition program. Video first became part of the Whitney Biennial exhibition in 1975, followed by film in 1979. In the years since, film and video works on view have ranged from features and surveys of individual filmmakers to themed series to film and video installations and artists’ films. Several landmark large-scale film and video exhibitions have also been presented, including Video Art: Expanded Forms (1979), Nam June Paik (1982), and Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964–1977 (2001).

Another pillar of the Museum’s film and video program is The Andy Warhol Film Project. Initiated in 1984 as a collaboration between the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art and approved by Warhol himself, it remains the largest archival research project in the history of American avant-garde cinema.

Purpledoor

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:03:26 -0400

ForKids/Kids/Purpledoor

Touring Exhibitions

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:43:37 -0400

Exhibitions/Touring

Asheville Art Museum
Asheville, NC
June 15–September 8, 2013

Links

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:22:37 -0400

Education/ForTeachers/Links

A selection of annotated links to websites about art, artists, and resources for your classroom.

Teen Gallery

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:20:30 -0400

Education/Teens/Gallery

Explore works of art created by teens in the Youth Insights program.

2011 Ceremonials

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:19:45 -0400

Education/Teens/Gallery/Ceremonials

Taking inspiration from Matthew Day Jackson’s Sepulcher (Viking Burial Ship) (2004), Dawn Clements asked YI Writers to create text for a ceremony marking a significant moment in their lives. They used a variety of art making methods and materials to create letters, scrolls, or other objects to commemorate personal turning points they have already reached or that they hope to complete in the future.

2011 The Bridge Project

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:19:17 -0400

Education/Teens/Gallery/2011TheBridgeProject

Corey McCorkle asked YI Artists to propose a new location, configuration, and purpose for an eighty-two year-old bridge in Perry County, Kentucky that had recently been deemed “functionally obsolete.” YI Artists created drawings, schematics, water-colors, and writing to support their ideas which included using the bridge as an outdoor park and exhibition space and turning the raw steel of the bridge into large-scale public sculpture.

2011 Large Scale Drawing

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:18:41 -0400

Education/Teens/Gallery/2011LargeScaleDrawing

Dawn Clements creates large-scale drawings that depict interior domestic spaces, either her own surroundings or those in classic 1940s and 1950s Hollywood melodramas. While working with Clements, YI Writers completed a studio art project in which they drew the details of an interior space from their own shifting perspective.

2012 Documenting Our Neighborhoods, Our Lives, Ourselves

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:18:19 -0400

Education/Teens/Gallery/2012DocumentingOurNeighborhoods

YI Artists worked with LaToya Ruby Frazier to create photographs that documented their changing neighborhoods, selves, and a variety of public spaces in New York City. They examined the effects of advertising on society and the ways that individuals make every day choices.

2012 Making Zines

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:17:38 -0400

Education/Teens/Gallery/2012MakingZines

Spring 2012 YI Writers worked with K8 Hardy to explore the relationship between visual art and text through the creation of artist books and zines. They created a wide range of alter egos that they explored through collages, photographs and finally a zine.

2012 Sounds We Like

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:17:15 -0400

Education/Teens/Gallery/2012SoundsWeLike

Cameron Crawford’s works often explore situations he determines to be philosophical paradoxes and the tenuous relationship between language and visual art. For this project, YI Writers were asked to make their own exploration of that relationship by creating a list of words they liked and then making a work of art from materials based entirely on that list.

2012 Object Hybrids

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:16:53 -0400

Education/Teens/Gallery/2012ObjectHybrids

Beth Campbell’s work investigates notions of the everyday made strange and unfamiliar by the artist’s hand. For their final project, Youth Insights Artists selected personal objects which they were willing to part with and have parted. YI Artists sliced and reconfigured their objects into unusual hybrids and installations that question our expectations of the familiar.

2012 Potential Future

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:16:32 -0400

Education/Teens/Gallery/2012PotentialFuture

Youth Insights Artists were inspired by an ongoing series of Beth Campbell’s drawings titled My Potential Future Based on Present Circumstances (2009). After viewing and discussing her work, YI Artists began to examine their own ideas about the future using a variety of materials, including watercolor, wire, wood, glass tiles, drawing media, and found objects.

Conversations On Art

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:12:39 -0400

Education/Adults/PublicPrograms/ConversationsOnArt

Artists, critics, writers, and scholars participate in roundtable conversations and panel discussions that respond to works on view and to broader trends within American culture at large.

My Turn

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:03:12 -0400

Education/Adults/PublicPrograms/MyTurn

My Turn expands the definition of a museum program by inviting a guest artist to interpret another artist’s work.

Hopper Drawing

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:38:08 -0400

Exhibitions/HopperDrawing

Hopper Drawing is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of Edward Hopper (1882–1967). More than anything else, Hopper’s drawings reveal the continually evolving relationship between observation and invention in the artist’s work, and his abiding interest in the spaces and motifs—the street, the movie theatre, the office, the bedroom, the road—that he would return to throughout his career as an artist. This exhibition showcases the Whitney’s unparalleled collection of Hopper’s work, which includes over 2,500 drawings bequeathed to the museum by his widow Josephine Hopper, many of which have never before been exhibited or researched. The exhibition surveys Hopper’s significant and underappreciated achievements as a draftsman, and pairs many of his greatest oil paintings, including Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), Office at Night (1940), and Nighthawks (1942), with their preparatory drawings and related works. This exhibition also features groundbreaking archival research into the buildings, spaces and urban environments that inspired his work.

Hopper Drawing is organized by Carter E. Foster, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing.

Works On View Now

Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:13:26 -0400

Collection/WorksOnViewNow

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Whitney Museum of American Art — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:53:35 -0400

The Museum has launched its new graphic identity designed by Experimental Jetset, featuring a dynamic W that responds to the artworks and words around it.