Verbal Description Online: Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 10–11:30 am

Verbal Description Online: Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019

Fri, Feb 25, 2022
10–11:30 am

Mesh wires shaped into a long, fluid blob, like lava in a lava lamp.
Mesh wires shaped into a long, fluid blob, like lava in a lava lamp.

Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.270, Hanging Six-Lobed, Complex Interlocking Continuous Form within a Form with Two Interior Spheres), 1955, refabricated 1957–1958. Brass and steel wire, 63 7/8 × 14 15/16 × 14 15/16 in. (162.2 × 37.9 × 37.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Howard Lipman 63.38. © Estate of Ruth Asawa

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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 exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 and will feature one of the exhibition’s curators, Jennie Goldstein. 


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