Virtual Collection Highlights Tour: Pop and Abstract Expressionism
Wed, Aug 26, 2020
1 pm
Ed Ruscha, Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights, 1962. Oil, house paint, ink, and graphite pencil on canvas, 66 15/16 x 133 1/8 in. (170 x 338.1 cm). Purchase with funds from the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund 85.41. © Ed Ruscha
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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 Xin Wang will discuss mid-twentieth-century abstraction as well as Pop art, focusing on works from the exhibition The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965.
Free with registration.
Option 1: Wednesday, August 26
1 pm
Option 2: Saturday, August 29
11:30 am
Xin Wang is a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney and a Ph.D. candidate in modern and contemporary art at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She has curated numerous exhibitions in the United States, 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.
