Verbal Description Online: In the Balance Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 10–11:30 am

Verbal Description Online: In the Balance

Fri, Jan 20, 2023
10–11:30 am

A blue vertical rectangle tilting to the left overlaps with a green rectangle tilting to the right. Layered with the two rectangles are orange and red triangles.
A blue vertical rectangle tilting to the left overlaps with a green rectangle tilting to the right. Layered with the two rectangles are orange and red triangles.

Dorothea Rockburne, Balance, 1985. Oil on linen, 58 15/16 × 82 3/4 × 4 1/16 in. (149.7 × 210.2 × 10.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mari and Peter Shaw 2020.150. © 2022 Dorothea Rockburne / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Verbal Description Online provides an opportunity for visitors who are blind or have low vision to experience the richness and diversity of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art through vivid description. Ninety-minute sessions are free-of-charge and are offered monthly on Friday mornings through Zoom and over the phone. 

This session will focus on the current exhibition on view, In the Balance: Between Painting and Sculpture, 1965–1985.


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