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  • Mesh wires shaped into a long, fluid blob, like lava in a lava lamp
    Mesh wires shaped into a long, fluid blob, like lava in a lava lamp

    Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.270, Hanging Six-Lobed, Complex Interlocking Continuous Form within a Form with Two Interior Spheres), 1955, refabricated 1957–1958. Brass and steel wire, overall: 63 7/8 × 14 15/16 × 14 15/16 in. (162.2 × 37.9 × 37.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Howard Lipman 63.38. © 2020 Estate of Ruth Asawa / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy The Estate of Ruth Asawa and David Zwirner

  • A geometric industrial building with two large silos, a tall smokestack, and crisscrossing power lines.
    A geometric industrial building with two large silos, a tall smokestack, and crisscrossing power lines.

    Charles Demuth, My Egypt, 1927. Oil, fabricated chalk, and graphite pencil on composition board, overall: 35 15/16 × 30 in. (91.3 × 76.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.172

  • A woman wearing red lipstick smiles softly, her face in profile against a more vivid red background.
    A woman wearing red lipstick smiles softly, her face in profile against a more vivid red background.

    Alex Katz, The Red Smile, 1963. Oil on linen, overall: 78 7/8 × 115 in. (200.3 × 292.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 83.3. © Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  • Black spiral overlay spirals inward toward a glowing orange triangle on a teal background.
    Black spiral overlay spirals inward toward a glowing orange triangle on a teal background.

    Mary Ellen Bute, Synchromy No. 4: Escape, 1937–1938. 16mm film, color, sound, 4 min., transferred to video, aspect Ratio: 4:3. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Film, Video, and New Media Committee 2014.101. © Estate of Mary Ellen Bute; courtesy Arsenal - Institut für film und videokunst, Berlin

  • In a room extending across a diptych, a pensive Black woman sits at a table surrounded by pattered surfaces.
    In a room extending across a diptych, a pensive Black woman sits at a table surrounded by pattered surfaces.

    Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Portals, 2016. Acrylic, solvent transfer, collage of fabric and paper, and colored pencil on paper, overall: 83 5/8 × 206 in. (212.4 × 523.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation 2016.93a-b. © Njideka Akunyili Crosby

  • Large mixed-media collage with colorful drips and textures and a sculpted bird perched on top.
    Large mixed-media collage with colorful drips and textures and a sculpted bird perched on top.

    Robert Rauschenberg, Satellite, 1955. Oil, fabric, paper and wood on canvas with taxidermied pheasant, overall: 79 3/8 × 43 5/16 × 5 5/8 in. (201.6 × 110 × 14.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Claire B. Zeisler and purchase with funds from the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund 91.85. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Frank WANG Yefeng, The Levitating Perils #2

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