Virtual Collection Highlights Tour: Connecting Threads
Wed, Aug 26, 2020
6 pm
Online, via Zoom
We’re excited to reopen and welcome audiences back to the Whitney. Before or after you visit—or even if you can’t make it to the Museum in person right now—join us for a series of thirty-minute Zoom talks to get reacquainted with our current exhibitions.
In this talk, teaching fellow Grant Johnson will discuss artworks by Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Eva Hesse, and Sheila Hicks featured in the collection display Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019.
Free with registration.
Option 1: Wednesday, August 26
6 pm
Option 2: Friday, August 28
3 pm
Option 3: Sunday, August 30
3 pm
Grant Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of art history at the University of Southern California and a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney. His dissertation, Sheila Hicks: Weaving to the World, traces the first critical history of the prolific weaver and pioneer of global contemporary art. An active curator, critic, and writer, he has had work appear in Artforum, Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, Garage, and Performa, where he was a writer-in-residence from 2012 to 2014.
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