Art History from Home:
Asian American Perspectives
Tues, June 30, 2020
6 pm
Chris Burden, The Atomic Alphabet, 1980. Photoetching: sheet, 57 1/2 × 39 in. (146.1 × 99.1 cm); image, 54 × 36 in. (137.2 × 91.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Print Committee 2003.110. Published by Crowne Point Press 1980. © 2020 Chris Burden / Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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This series of online talks by the Whitney’s Joan Tisch Teaching Fellows highlights works in the Museum's collection to illuminate critical topics in American art from 1900 to the present. During each thirty-minute session, participants are invited to comment and ask questions through a moderated chat.
This session will explore work by American artists of Asian descent, including Sarah Sze, Isamu Noguchi, and Walid Raad, alongside artworks that engage with aspects of “Asian-ness” by artists from other backgrounds, such as Chris Burden and Andy Warhol. Looking at these works together, we will consider what it means for an ethnic and cultural identity to be the frame through which we experience and understand representation, artistic expression, and the geopolitical tensions that shaped twentieth-century history.
Xin Wang is a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum and a Ph.D. candidate in modern and contemporary art at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She is the curator of numerous exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and her latest writings have appeared in Art in America, Art Agenda, and Wallpaper (Chinese edition). She is currently planning an exhibition that explores Asian Futurisms for the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City.