Whitney Museum of American Art: Watch and Listen: Architectures

2012 Biennial: Working with the Architecture

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:39:38 -0400

In this video, Whitney Biennial 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders discuss the ways artists interacted with the architecture of the Whitney Museum.

October 1, 2009Beyond Dan Graham: Beyond

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:21:20 -0500

Chrissie Iles, Bennett Simpson, Michael Smith, and Mark Wasiuta join Dan Graham for a roundtable conversation about his inimitable contributions to performances, music, and architecture.

Curators Dana Miller and Michael Hays discuss Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:55:56 -0400

Co-curators Dana Miller and Michael Hays discuss Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, an exhibition featuring one of the great American visionaries of the twentieth century. Utilizing his doing “more with less” credo, Fuller’s designs endeavored to benefit the largest portion of humanity while consuming the minimum amount of the earth’s resources. This video presents four examples of Fuller’s integrated approach to the design and technology of housing, transportation, and cartography—the Dymaxion House, ca. 1930, Dymaxion Transport Vehicle, ca.1933 , Wichita House, ca. 1945, and The Fuller Projection Map, ca. 1943.

July 24, 2008Gallery Talk: Stephanie Smith and Michael Hays on Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:31:10 -0500

Architect Stephanie Smith, founder of the L.A.-based green design studio Ecoshack, and exhibition co-curator Michael Hays discuss Buckminster Fuller’s engagement with architecture and design science.

July 17, 2008Gallery Talk: Linda Dalrymple Henderson on Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:31:30 -0500

Join art historian Linda Dalrymple Henderson for a walk through of Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe.

April 3, 2008Seminars with Artists: Lisa Sigal

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:33:39 -0400

Lisa Sigal’s inventive constructions, both self-contained and site-specific, fuse painting, sculpture, installation, and architecture. Moderated by K. Michael Hays, formerly the Whitney’s adjunct curator of architecture.

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.

January 22, 2008Architecture Dialogue: Tobias Putrih

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:34:26 -0400

Celluloid, cardboard, and helium balloons are among the materials that constitute the fabric of Tobias Putrih’s inventive sculptural environments. In this talk, he looks towards the Buckminster Fuller exhibition.

Exploring innovative practices across contemporary art and architecture, this season’s Architecture Dialogues series looks towards our exhibition on R. Buckminster Fuller and explores networked communities, links between the local and the global, and architectural ecosystems.

October 24, 2007Architecture Dialogues: Teddy Cruz

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:35:08 -0400

Exploring the bilingual territory of border zones and the possibilities for habitation of such liminal spaces, architect Teddy Cruz has been building public housing on the border of southern California and Tijuana for years. His practice is committed to the architectural promise of local materials and to the creative potential inherent in hybrid global communities.

Exploring innovative practices across contemporary art and architecture, this season’s Architecture Dialogues series looks to our exhibition on R. Buckminster Fuller and explores networked communities, links between the local and the global, and architectural ecosystems.

May 2, 2007Architectural Dialogues: Li Hu

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:35:30 -0400

For the past three years, Li Hu has been leading a team of designers from Steven Holl Architects to work on the Linked Hybrid project in Beijing, a project that was dubbed “one of the ten architectural wonders in China” by Business Week in December 2005. This ambitious “city within a city,” a 2.4 million square foot mixed program with residential, commercial, and comprehensive supporting facilities, is sustainable development writ large. Li is a partner at Steven Holl Architects and the director of their office in Beijing.

March 29, 2007Spotlight: On Gordon Matta-Clark On Other Architectures: Carlos Basualdo

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:36:40 -0400

Thomas Crow has discussed Gordon Matta-Clark’s South American lineage, travels, and interests—particularly in relation to the concept of “anthropophagy,” or cultural cannibalism, a means to “devour” a colonizing culture. Carlos Basualdo, curator of contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and curator of Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture, will take up an exemplar of this concept—Hélio Oiticica—and discuss the Brazilian artist’s parallel investigations into social dimensions for art and its publics.

March 29, 2007Spotlight: On Gordon Matta-Clark “The first act of doing is moving. Giving it a good heave.”

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:20:47 -0400

Art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, former Whitney curator-at-large Joan Simon, and architect and theorist Lebbeus Woods contribute to a roundtable discussion of Gordon Matta-Clark’s physical and social practice. Matta-Clark called this practice “the confrontational nature of the work. . . every bit as brutal physically as it is socially—as strenuous an action as any dance or team sport.” Moderated by exhibition curator Elisabeth Sussman.

March 15, 2007Architecture Dialogues: An Te Liu

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:37:00 -0400

Exploring modernist notions of the grid, urban planning, and domestic space, Toronto-based artist and architect An Te Liu works across the realms of the functional and fine art, often energizing forms by engaging their opposite. He reveals the sinister or even the whimsical within the most perfect of plans, shapes, and objects by tweaking utopian vocabularies.

Exploring innovative practices across contemporary art and architecture, this season’s Architecture Dialogues series looks towards our exhibition on R. Buckminster Fuller and explores networked communities, links between the local and the global, and architectural ecosystems.