Whitney Museum of American Art: Watch and Listen: Photographies

2012 Biennial: LaToya Ruby Frazier

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:27:24 -0400

In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses her work in the exhibition, focusing on her self-portraits in the Homebody Series (2010).

Singular Visions: AA Bronson, Felix Partz, June 5, 1994, 1994 and 1999

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:11:38 -0400

In this video, artist AA Bronson discusses his work Felix Partz, June 5, 1994 (1994 and 1999), on view in the exhibition Singular Visions.

Curator Chrissie Iles in Conversation with Laurie Simmons

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:02:21 -0400

In this video, Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator Chrissie Iles speaks with artist Laurie Simmons about her work, Walking Camera II (Jimmy the Camera) from 1987. The artist explains the inspiration behind the work and how it functions as a portrait of her close friend Jimmy DeSana.

May 28, 2010 My Turn: Nina Berman

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:24:36 -0400

Nina Berman’s interest in the human stories behind war and global conflicts is the inspiration and motivation behind her searing photographs of contemporary warfare. By creating portraits of individuals transformed by war, she seeks to make the conflict “more intimately felt by a civilian audience.” Join her as she brings the war home in a unique format for a night of dialogue and interaction.

My Turn invites artists to create programs for the Whitney’s public that are an extension of and informed by their own artistic processes and methods. Taking their contributions to 2010 as a point of departure, six Biennial artists explore key aspects of their practice to create distinctive evenings of performance, discussion, demonstration, and engagement.

Roni Horn: Still Water (The River Thames for Example)

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:26:40 -0400

In this video, Roni Horn discusses her work, Still Water (The River Thames for Example) and how the river figures into both history and imagination.

Roni Horn: This Is Me, This Is You

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:27:12 -0400

In this video, artist Roni Horn discusses her two-part work,This is Me, This is You, which features a series of photographs taken of her niece, Georgia, over the course of two years

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:06:55 -0400

This candid interview with photographer William Eggleston was conducted by film director Michael Almereyda on the occasion of the opening of Eggleston’s retrospective William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008 at the Whitney Museum. A key figure in American photography, Eggleston is credited with helping to usher in the era of color photography. Eggleston discusses his shift from black and white to color photography as well as his personal relationships with the subjects of many of his photographs.

Michael Almereyda is director of the film William Eggleston and the Real World (2005).

May 13, 2008Seminars with Artists: James Welling and Walead Beshty

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:03:19 -0400

Photographers James Welling and Walead 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 artsts.

April 26, 2007Seminars With Artists: Lyle Ashton Harris

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:35:41 -0400

Lyle Ashton Harris has incorporated installation, video, and photography in his work, often with himself as the subject. His identity-based photographs of the 1990s explored race, gender, and sexuality through strategies like masquerade, camp humor, and the family snapshot. Of his recent work, Holland Cotter wrote: “Like most really stimulating art, Mr. Harris’s eludes clean readings. It is self-portraiture that is not quite self-portraiture, based on fiction that is not quite fiction.” His work was recently included in the Whitney’s Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day.

Since its inception in the late 1960s, Seminars with Artists has provide a forum for intimate engagements with the most notable artists working in America. Taking its cue from the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure, this season’s speakers explore art practices born from critical intersections with New York City.

Audio guide stop for Martha Rosler, The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, 1974–75

Whitney Museum of American Art — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:33:03 -0500

Audio guide stop for Roni Horn, Ellipsis (II), 1998

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:51:17 -0500

Audio guide stop for Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Thinking of You), 1999–2000

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:18:26 -0500