Virtual Highlights Tour of Vida Americana: Orozco on the Coasts
Wed, Aug 26, 2020
11:30 am
Jacob Lawrence, From every Southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north., panel 3 from the Migration Series, 1940–41. Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 × 18 in. (30.5 × 45.7 cm). The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; acquired 1942. © 2019 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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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 focusing on Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945, teaching fellow Xin Wang will spotlight José Clemente Orozco’s time in the United States and his importance for American artists such as Jacob Lawrence and Jackson Pollock.
Free with registration.
Option 1: Wednesday, August 26
11:30 am
Option 2: Thursday, August 27
1 pm
Option 3: Monday, August 31
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.
