{"data":{"id":"9264","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":9264,"topgoose_id":1250,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":9264,"title":"HERE THERE \u0026 EVERYWHERE","display_artist_text":"Lawrence Weiner","display_date":"1989","accession_number":"94.136","dimensions":"Dimensions variable ","medium":"Language + the materials referred to","department":"collection","classification":"Installations","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLawrence Weiner, \u003cem\u003eHERE THERE \u0026 EVERYWHERE\u003c/em\u003e, 1989. Language + the materials referred to, dimensions variable . Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee 94.136. © Lawrence Weiner Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eLawrence Weiner was among the first generation of Conceptual artists who prioritized ideas over visual images and forms, and treated language as a material. Indeed, Weiner refers to his works as sculptures composed of “language and the materials referred to.” \u003ci\u003eHere There \u0026amp; Everywhere\u003c/i\u003e consists of eight lines of text, comprising a chorus and refrain of four directionally related statements. The open-endedness of Weiner’s text is echoed by the guidelines for its installation, which allow the work’s form to be determined by the curator and the specificity of the architectural space: the text can be installed either on four separate walls or together on a single vertical surface. Art is like language, Weiner reminds us, and is not fixed in its significance, but subject to change according to “various manners with various things.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u0026nbsp;","ai_alt_text":"White gallery wall displays four blue stencil phrases like \"Away from it all\" and \"Here there \u0026 everywhere.\"","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T15:33:16.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:22.466-05:00","images":[{"id":100151,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/9264/94_136_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"4235","type":"artist"}]}}}}