{"data":[{"id":"1299","type":"exhibition","attributes":{"id":1299,"title":"First Acquisitions of the Friends","start_time":"1957-10-30T00:00:00.000-05:00","end_time":"1957-11-17T00:00:00.000-05:00","member_start_time":null,"member_end_time":null,"date_override":"","url":"/exhibitions/friends-first-acquisitions","primary_text":null,"primary_media_id":null,"override_media_id":null,"sign_media_id":null,"feature_id":null,"artwork_series_id":null,"installation_series_id":null,"perspective_series_id":null,"press_highlights":"","audio_description":"","videos_description":"","popularity":0.0196078431372549,"created_at":"2024-02-28T09:43:52.434-05:00","updated_at":"2025-06-16T12:38:24.723-04:00","block_editor":{"data":{"id":"4073","type":"block_editor","attributes":{"id":4073,"exhibition_id":1299,"page_id":null,"created_at":"2025-06-16T12:38:24.718-04:00","updated_at":"2025-06-16T12:38:24.718-04:00","regions":[]}}}}},{"id":"6","type":"exhibition","attributes":{"id":6,"title":"Sadie Benning: Play Pause","start_time":"2009-04-22T00:00:00.000-04:00","end_time":"2009-09-20T00:00:00.000-04:00","member_start_time":null,"member_end_time":null,"date_override":"","url":"/exhibitions/sadie-benning","primary_text":"\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003eArtist Sadie Benning is known for her experimental video narratives, which she started making in the late 1980s. First shown here in the Whitney's 1993 Biennial, and again in the 2000 Biennial, Benning now presents her latest video installation \u003cem\u003ePlay Pause\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(2006) as part of the Whitney's Contemporary Series. The two-channel video departs from Benning’s earlier work, cutting together hundreds of the artist’s gouache drawings of urban landscapes, figures, and abstractions. With its fragmented split-screen perspective, durational takes of still drawings, and occasional use of color filters,\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;Play Pause\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;speaks to the heightening of perception that accompanies periods of loss. This is Benning’s first solo museum exhibition in New York.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003eThe exhibition is organized by Tina Kukielski, senior curatorial assistant.\u003c/p\u003e","primary_media_id":3088,"override_media_id":null,"sign_media_id":null,"feature_id":null,"artwork_series_id":null,"installation_series_id":null,"perspective_series_id":null,"press_highlights":"\u003cp\u003e\"a small, multifaceted gem.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/arts/design/01whit.html?_r=3\u0026scp=1\u0026sq=Sadie%20Benning\u0026st=cse\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfile: Sadie Benning debuts at the 1993 Whitney Biennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e--\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/28/arts/up-and-coming-sadie-benning-a-video-artist-who-talks-through-a-keyhole.html?partner=rssnyt\u0026emc=rss\"\u003eThe New York 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Ruscha\u003c/em\u003e was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Works of Edward Ruscha\u003c/em\u003e was curated by Anne Livet.\u003c/p\u003e","primary_media_id":null,"override_media_id":null,"sign_media_id":null,"feature_id":null,"artwork_series_id":null,"installation_series_id":null,"perspective_series_id":null,"press_highlights":null,"audio_description":null,"videos_description":null,"popularity":0.00980392156862745,"created_at":"2025-01-17T14:18:32.527-05:00","updated_at":"2026-01-06T13:18:00.342-05:00","block_editor":{"data":{"id":"4963","type":"block_editor","attributes":{"id":4963,"exhibition_id":1792,"page_id":null,"created_at":"2025-06-16T12:38:34.297-04:00","updated_at":"2025-06-16T12:38:34.297-04:00","regions":[]}}}}},{"id":"715","type":"exhibition","attributes":{"id":715,"title":"Collection in Context: Paul Cadmus The Sailor 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exhibition catalogue at the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/1958annualwhit\"\u003eInternet Archive\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","primary_media_id":41608,"override_media_id":null,"sign_media_id":null,"feature_id":null,"artwork_series_id":null,"installation_series_id":2168,"perspective_series_id":null,"press_highlights":"\u003cp\u003e“. . . generally high level of both technical and imaginative quality in all three departments of the exhibition.” —\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1958/11/19/archives/art-review-whitney-museums-annual-on-today.html?smid=url-share\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The diversity of media and techniques is explored, occasionally at the expense of quality; and a few of the clamorous paintings in what might be termed the abstract-expressionist group could be spared. But, on the whole, this year’s event emerges very creditably from the long series.” —\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1958/11/23/archives/whitney-roundup-the-annual-appraisalmasters-newcomers.html?smid=url-share\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","audio_description":"","videos_description":"","popularity":0.4117647058823529,"created_at":"2019-03-05T18:55:07.317-05:00","updated_at":"2025-06-16T12:35:26.076-04:00","block_editor":{"data":{"id":"2541","type":"block_editor","attributes":{"id":2541,"exhibition_id":346,"page_id":null,"created_at":"2025-06-16T12:35:26.070-04:00","updated_at":"2025-06-16T12:35:26.070-04:00","regions":[]}}}}},{"id":"1989","type":"exhibition","attributes":{"id":1989,"title":"Photography In America","start_time":"1974-11-21T00:00:00.000-05:00","end_time":"1975-01-15T00:00:00.000-05:00","member_start_time":null,"member_end_time":null,"date_override":null,"url":"/exhibitions/photography-in-america","primary_text":"\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotography in America\u003c/em\u003e was curated by Robert Doty.\u003c/p\u003e","primary_media_id":null,"override_media_id":null,"sign_media_id":null,"feature_id":null,"artwork_series_id":null,"installation_series_id":null,"perspective_series_id":null,"press_highlights":null,"audio_description":null,"videos_description":null,"popularity":0.0196078431372549,"created_at":"2025-01-17T14:18:51.714-05:00","updated_at":"2026-01-06T13:17:29.335-05:00","block_editor":{"data":{"id":"5349","type":"block_editor","attributes":{"id":5349,"exhibition_id":1989,"page_id":null,"created_at":"2025-06-16T12:38:36.670-04:00","updated_at":"2025-06-16T12:38:36.670-04:00","regions":[]}}}}},{"id":"1781","type":"exhibition","attributes":{"id":1781,"title":"The Eight","start_time":"1983-01-13T00:00:00.000-05:00","end_time":"1983-03-20T00:00:00.000-05:00","member_start_time":null,"member_end_time":null,"date_override":null,"url":"/exhibitions/the-eight-1983","primary_text":"\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Eight\u003c/em\u003e was curated by B. 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Over the duration of the project, she is meticulously attaching shards of glass to tumbleweeds, using biodegradable twine that dissolves over time, and releasing them into nature. Short video clips of the light reflected by the glass shards appear in the online map—points of light that leave behind colored trails. As the artist releases more tumbleweeds with glass fragments into the desert, she updates the animated ‘star maps’ on a bi-weekly basis. Using materials that she draws out of the desert landscape—tumbleweeds and glass—Ludy’s project explores connections between nature and the online world, as well as craft practices of tying knots and techniques of visualizing data.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003eAt a time when many people’s online communication and existence has vastly increased due to the pandemic, \u003cem\u003eTumbleweeds\u003c/em\u003e explores the condition of being uprooted and untethered. Ludy highlights the differences between space and time in the physical and online world: she intentionally obscures the scale of the territory represented by the star maps, pointing to the distortions of space that occur in virtual environments. The light points ‘travel’ in time from the browser window at sunrise to the one at sunset, suggesting a state of timelessness by illustrating that the appearance of visuals in a browser window is not bound by conventional time frames or natural cycles. The journey of the online light points is inspired by the physics concept of quantum superposition, the ability of a system—be it particles, waves, or an online map—to be in multiple states at the same time until it is measured. Once the performance comes to an end and no more tumbleweeds are equipped with shards, a final star map collapsing both the sunrise and sunset version of the map will render static the points of light, creating an abstract digital painting and referencing how the glass fragments fall back to the ground in the desert and stay in place.\u003c/p\u003e","primary_media_id":52856,"override_media_id":null,"sign_media_id":null,"feature_id":null,"artwork_series_id":null,"installation_series_id":null,"perspective_series_id":null,"press_highlights":"","audio_description":"","videos_description":"","popularity":0.434640522875817,"created_at":"2022-05-06T17:00:32.362-04:00","updated_at":"2025-07-11T12:06:17.488-04:00","block_editor":{"data":{"id":"3601","type":"block_editor","attributes":{"id":3601,"exhibition_id":974,"page_id":null,"created_at":"2025-06-16T12:38:14.803-04:00","updated_at":"2025-06-16T12:38:14.803-04:00","regions":[{"data":{"id":"22214","type":"region","attributes":{"id":22214,"position":1,"columns":12,"block_editor_id":3601,"created_at":"2025-02-19T09:52:04.809-05:00","updated_at":"2025-07-11T12:06:17.436-04:00","region_components":[{"data":{"id":"40497","type":"region_component","attributes":{"id":40497,"component_id":14745,"component_type":"TextComponent","position":1,"region_id":22214,"created_at":"2025-02-19T09:52:04.817-05:00","updated_at":"2025-07-11T12:06:17.447-04:00","component":{"data":{"id":"14745","type":"component","attributes":{"id":14745,"exhibition_id":974,"text":"\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSara Ludy\u003c/strong\u003e (b. 1980) is an American artist and composer working in a wide range of media including digital painting, animation, VR, websites, installation, and sound. Through an interdisciplinary practice, Ludy generates hybrid forms from the confluence of nature and simulation to explore notions of immateriality and being. Ludy’s work has been exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Vancouver Art Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, Berkeley Art Museum, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Her work has been featured in \u003cem\u003eModern Painters\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eArtforum\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eArt in America\u003c/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCultured Magazine\u003c/em\u003e. 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class=\"large\"\u003eView the full exhibition catalogue at the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/1945annualsculp00whit\"\u003eInternet Archive\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","primary_media_id":41632,"override_media_id":null,"sign_media_id":null,"feature_id":null,"artwork_series_id":null,"installation_series_id":null,"perspective_series_id":null,"press_highlights":"\u003cp\u003e“. . . one is likely to find this exhibition, considered as a whole, disappointing.” —\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1945/01/07/archives/art-in-a-new-year-whitney-sculpture-and-watercolors.html?smid=url-share\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“. . . even though the bulk of the work may be new and several pieces are unquestionably strong, the exhibition is not thereby rescued from a general atmosphere of dullness.” —\u003ca 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Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago) draws the title from a poem by Amiri Baraka and thinks of the work as a poem in itself. Poetry, the artist explains, is a “vehicle for the exploration of critical concerns, aesthetics, and the romantic … a mode that acts as a mirror for all other mediums.”\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Poetry\u003c/em\u003e continues Johnson’s ongoing series of steel-grid sculptures, which he began in 2004. Like previous iterations, this latest work is an illuminated grid of steel bars that form a shelf-like structure straddling the Museum’s indoor and outdoor spaces. Within the grid are ceramic pots made by the artist, poetry books, carved blocks of shea butter, and TV monitors playing the artist’s 2010 silent short film \u003cem\u003eBlack Yoga\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003eThis work is intended to mimic the function of a brain, condensing disparate materials and information into one intertwined space so that new connections and ways of thinking may be generated. 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class=\"large\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFranz Kline 1910-1962\u003c/em\u003e was curated by John Gordon.\u003c/p\u003e","primary_media_id":null,"override_media_id":null,"sign_media_id":null,"feature_id":null,"artwork_series_id":null,"installation_series_id":null,"perspective_series_id":null,"press_highlights":"","audio_description":"","videos_description":"","popularity":0.0457516339869281,"created_at":"2025-01-17T14:19:07.768-05:00","updated_at":"2026-01-06T16:33:51.361-05:00","block_editor":{"data":{"id":"5649","type":"block_editor","attributes":{"id":5649,"exhibition_id":2143,"page_id":null,"created_at":"2025-06-16T12:38:38.770-04:00","updated_at":"2025-06-16T12:38:38.770-04:00","regions":[]}}}}},{"id":"331","type":"exhibition","attributes":{"id":331,"title":"Whitney Biennial 1975: Contemporary American 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There is also a fair representation of perfectly serious abstract painting [. . .]. There are excursions into realism, both of the academic and photorealist persuasions, and the requisite portion of Conceptual art.” —\u003ca href=\"https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/art-view/docview/120488812/se-2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Whitney has lately been eclectic in its tastes—with if anything a bias in favor of boisterous, kitsch-oriented work from way out of town—and I see no signs in the 1975 Biennial Exhibition of any change of heart in that respect.” —\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/06/archives/whitney-finds-this-land-is-its-land.html?smid=url-share\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","audio_description":"","videos_description":"","popularity":0.5065359477124183,"created_at":"2019-03-05T18:32:23.869-05:00","updated_at":"2025-06-16T12:34:57.491-04:00","block_editor":{"data":{"id":"2511","type":"block_editor","attributes":{"id":2511,"exhibition_id":331,"page_id":null,"created_at":"2025-06-16T12:34:57.486-04:00","updated_at":"2025-06-16T12:34:57.486-04:00","regions":[]}}}}},{"id":"33","type":"exhibition","attributes":{"id":33,"title":"Lorna Simpson","start_time":"2007-03-01T00:00:00.000-05:00","end_time":"2007-05-06T00:00:00.000-04:00","member_start_time":null,"member_end_time":null,"date_override":"","url":"/exhibitions/lorna-simpson","primary_text":"\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003eOne of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson is well known for her photographic and film works, which often examine racial and gender identity. In works such as\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eCall Waiting\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1997), she depicts people of color engaging in intimate yet incomplete conversations that elude easy interpretation but seem to plumb the mysteries of identity and desire. Organized by the American Federation of Arts, this comprehensive first mid-career survey features her image and text works, serigraphs on felt, film installations, and a selection of recent work.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis exhibition is made possible, in part, by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., the Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation, Emily Fisher Landau, and The Barbara Lee Family Foundation Fund at the Boston Foundation.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the New York presentation, additional support is provided by the Norton Family Foundation, Raymond J. McGuire, the Orentreich Family Foundation, Susan and Arthur Fleischer, Jr., Eric Ellenbogen, and Gregory R. 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The exhibition includes paintings, photographs and sculptures by Isaac Abrams, Richard Avedon, Lynda Benglis, Richard Hamilton, Elliott Landy, Jimi Hendrix (his only known watercolor), Robert Indiana, Yayoi Kusama, Richard Lindner, and John McCracken, among others, as well as a rich selection of important posters, album covers and underground magazines. A special emphasis is placed on environments as well as on film, video and multimedia installations, including works by Jordan Belson, USCO, Stan VanDerBeek, James Whitney, and Lamonte Young and Marian Zazeela. The exhibition includes films of performances and light shows, and spotlights places such as the UFO nightclub in London and the Human Be-In in San Francisco, featuring Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. 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