Moby-Dick: A Marathon Reading
Fri, Nov 13, 2015
11 am–10 pm
Frank Stella (b. 1936), The Whiteness of the Whale (IRS-1, 2X), 1987. Paint on aluminum, 149 × 121 3/4 × 45 1/4 in. (378.5 × 309.2 × 114.9 cm). Private collection. © 2015 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Steven Sloman
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Floor Five, Neil Bluhm Family Galleries
In dialogue with Frank Stella’s Moby-Dick series, artists and writers read Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale in the Whitney’s fifth-floor galleries. The two-day event culminates on the 164th anniversary of the novel’s publication.
This program is co-organized with the Moby-Dick Marathon NYC, a biennial event founded in 2012.
November 13
11 am–10 pm
November 14
11 am–finish
Free with Museum admission. No special tickets or reservations are required.
