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  • A pixilated purple-tinted scene of five wolves standing on a low hill in a wooded area
    A pixilated purple-tinted scene of five wolves standing on a low hill in a wooded area

    Alan Michelson, Wolf Nation, 2018. Video, color, sound, 9:59 min., aspect Ratio: 4.014. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Director’s Discretionary Fund 2019.327. © Alan Michelson
    Laura Ortman, sound

  • A diverse group of women posing together in a living room, some seated and smiling.
    A diverse group of women posing together in a living room, some seated and smiling.

    Sylvia Sleigh, A.I.R. Group Portrait, 1977–1978. Oil on canvas, overall: 75 × 82 in. (190.5 × 208.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 2016.234. © Whitney Museum of American Art

  • Seven young women stand confidently on concrete arches in a fenced urban schoolyard.
    Seven young women stand confidently on concrete arches in a fenced urban schoolyard.

    Kwame Brathwaite, Untitled (Photo shoot at a school for one of the many modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s), c.1966, printed 2018. Inkjet print, sheet (sight): 29 5/8 × 29 5/8 in. (75.2 × 75.2 cm) Image (sight): 29 5/8 × 29 5/8 in. (75.2 × 75.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Brian Silver 2018.136. © Kwame Brathwaite

  • A painted wooden sculpture of a man and woman reaching hands as if dancing on a pedestal.
    A painted wooden sculpture of a man and woman reaching hands as if dancing on a pedestal.

    Elie Nadelman, Tango, c. 1920–1924. Painted and gessoed cherry wood, overall: 36 × 25 5/8 × 13 7/8 in. (91.4 × 65.1 × 35.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul Purchase Fund, the Joan and Lester Avnet Purchase Fund, the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Purchase Fund, the Mrs. Robert C. Graham Purchase Fund in honor of John I.H. Baur, the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund and the Henry Schnakenberg Purchase Fund in honor of Juliana Force 88.1a-c. © Estate of Elie Nedelman

  • A naked Black man balances on one leg while looking out into the glistening light from a window in a dilapidated room
    A naked Black man balances on one leg while looking out into the glistening light from a window in a dilapidated room

    Alvin Baltrop, Untitled, 1977. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 9 × 6 7/8 in. (22.9 × 17.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2009.31. Photographs used courtesy of The Alvin Baltrop Trust, © 2010, The Alvin Baltrop Trust and Galerie Buchholz. All rights reserved.

  • A cluster of long, bending, caked black rods emerges from a nest of rocks. The rocks sit on a patch of black, ash-like material.
    A cluster of long, bending, caked black rods emerges from a nest of rocks. The rocks sit on a patch of black, ash-like material.

    David Hammons, Untitled, 1992. Human hair, wire, metallic mylar, sledgehammer, plastic beads, string, metal food tin, panty hose, leather, tea bags, and feathers
    , dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Mrs. Percy Uris Bequest and the Painting and Sculpture Committee 92.128a-z. © 2025 David Hammons / 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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