99 Objects: Aki Sasamoto on Threat and Sanctuary by Neil Jenney Thurs, Aug 27, 2015, 7 pm

99 Objects: Aki Sasamoto on Threat and Sanctuary by Neil Jenney

Thurs, Aug 27, 2015
7 pm

A painting of a person swimming to a life raft surrounded by three shark fins.
A painting of a person swimming to a life raft surrounded by three shark fins.

Neil Jenney, Threat and Sanctuary, 1969. Oil on canvas, with wood frame, 61 × 123 1/4 × 3 1/4 in. (154.9 × 313.1 × 8.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection  2012.175a–b © Neil Jenney 

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Floor Five

Aki Sasamoto, artist, will address Threat and Sanctuary, 1969 by Neil Jenney (b. 1945), with Matt Bauder, musician.

Named in honor of the Whitney’s new address, 99 Gansevoort Street, 99 Objects is a series of in-gallery programs focusing on individual works of art from the Museum’s collection on view in America Is Hard to See. Speakers include artists, writers, Whitney curators and educators, and an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Programs take place daily.

Free with Museum admission.


On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

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