#whitney-museum — Public Fediverse posts

Our Gods Walk Among Us, Nani Chacon. At the Whitney Biennial. #art #whitneymuseum #sculpture https://offtheleash.net/2026/03/16/its-biennial-time/

#whitneymuseum #AlexanderCalder #art

Jan 3, 2026 #WhitneyMuseum

Took a break from all the terrible news and saw some cool stuff at the Whitney.

#Marisol #Art #Sculpture #WhitneyMuseum

Wstrząsająca tragedia w Whitney Museum - 34-letni mężczyzna zginął po skoku z muzeum. Scott Rothkopf poinformował pracowników o incydencie, podkreślając, jak głęboko wpływa na społeczność. Muzeum otworzy się nieco później, by dać czas na refleksję. Jak takie wydarzenia zmieniają nasz odbiór sztuki i przestrzeni publicznej? Dzielmy się wsparciem i troską. #WhitneyMuseum #Refleksja #Społeczność #artnews
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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/whitney-museum-person-jumps-staff-email-1234748609/

Whitney Museum Cancels Pro-Palestine Performance at Its Storied Independent Study Program | Participants in the renowned program claim it has lost its vaunted independence
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/whitney-museum-cancels-palestine-performance-independent-study-program-2646893 #museums #ProPalestine #WhitneyMuseum

hal foster: “fail better. reckoning with artists and critics”

Sandro Ricaldone

HAL FOSTER
Fail Better
Reckoning with Artists and Critics
The MIT Press, 2025
(forthcoming)

“Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. “By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.” In Fail Better, Foster, an art critic and historian whose influential work spans disciplines and decades, brings this peripatetic perspective to contemporary art, art criticism, art history, and his own work over the past 50 years.

In these 40 texts, Foster reviews artists from Richard Hamilton and Jasper Johns to Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha; considers contemporaries from Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman to Jeremy Deller and Adam Pendleton; and traces the development of criticism since the early 1960s, with essays on such influential figures as Susan Sontag and Rosalind Krauss and institutions like Artforum magazine and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Taking his title from Beckett—“try again, fail again, fail better”—Foster notes that, etymologically, an essay is always an attempt, more or less failed. Critics fail artworks, because there can never be a definitive reading; art fails its historical moment, because it cannot resolve the contradictions that prompt it. But in these failures Foster finds historical consciousness, and with it the promise of future work, future illumination. In his “reckonings” he turns his own long history of criticism to account, and succeeds in conveying shifting concepts of art and criticism, the work of key artists and critics, and the relationships between criticism, theory, history, and politics over the last six decades.

#AdamPendleton #art #arte #ArtforumMagazine #artists #CindySherman #criticism #critics #EdRuscha #GerhardRichter #HalFoster #JasperJohns #JeremyDeller #LouiseLawler #MITPress #RichardHamilton #RosalindKrauss #SusanSontag #WhitneyMuseum #WhitneyMuseumIndependentStudyProgram

[4 of 4] And finally, just a snapshot. I had no idea this painting is at the Whitney, which is where it becomes obvious I'd never been to the Whitney before 😉

#whitneymuseum #edwardhopper #nyc

(3/4) Inevitably, Little Island. Great views of the waterfront from the Whitney deck.

#photography #mobilephotography #iphonephotography #whitneymuseum #architecurephotography #nyc #newyorkcity #cityphotography

(1/4) A few from an impromptu Whitney Museum trip. The Meatpacking District is so gentrified that it’s a caricature of itself, but the Whitney made for a great afternoon.

#photography #mobilephotography #iphonephotography #architecurephotography #nyc #newyorkcity #whitneymuseum

The Past Awaiting the Present/Arrival of Drummers, Maja Ruznic. At the Whitney Biennial. #art #whitneymuseum #Museums https://offtheleash.net/2024/03/20/biennial-24-the-state-of-american-art/

Discover the visionary art of Harold Cohen, who pioneered the world's first artificial intelligence in fine art back in the 1970s. Explore his groundbreaking work showcased at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the exhibition 'Harold Cohen: Aaron' until June 2024.
#ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalArt #HaroldCohen #WhitneyMuseum
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/first-ai-generated-art-dates-back-to-1970s-180983700/

“Autumn Chairs, Whitney Museum” — Colorful chairs and an autumn tree outside the New Whitney Museum, Manhattan.

As each season passes, the sensations of the previous season fade. But only a short time ago it was about colorful leaves falling from trees, crunching underfoot, and blowing along sidewalks and trails. I made this photograph as we passed the Whitney Museum at the end of a very long Manhattan walk in late November on one of those beautiful autumn days...continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2024/01/24/autumn-chairs-whitney-museum/

#whitneymuseum #Manhattan #NYC #urban #street #autumn #fall #travel #photography #color

Why the Whitney Museum went from 'pay-what-you-wish' to 'free' on Friday nights.

The Whitney Museum will launch its new program of free admission from 5 to 10 p.m. on Friday nights this week, along with a new program offering free admission on the second Sunday of each month.

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/why-the-whitney-museum-went-from-pay-what-you-wish-to-free-on-friday-nights #museums #WhitneyMuseum #admission

Fun Fact: Writing #NamingGotham reconnected me with old friends! Just got this email from a college buddy (go Wes!):
"Just now I was reading your chapter on Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and thought that her Titanic sculpture looked familiar. I was in DC a month ago when I snapped this photo."
#Wesleyan #NYC #History #Titanic #GertrudeWhitney #whitneymuseum #historyteacher #amwriting #amreading #books #bookworm #gossip #histodons

Opening day is soon, so this Friday's art appreciation moment is: Three Base Hit by James Daugherty, on view at The Whitney. #art #abstractart #penandink #watercolour #americana #baseball #whitneymuseum #fridayartappreciation

Ooh, I am going to have to figure out how to get down to NYC for a weekend.

#edwardHopper #whitneyMuseum

https://whitney.org/exhibitions/edward-hopper-new-york

Finally made it to the #EdwardHopper exhibit at the #WhitneyMuseum today

Judy Chicago & Mary Ann Unger at the #WhitneyMuseum of #AmericanArt. #JudyChicago #MaryAnnUnger #WomenSculptors #WomenArtists

#fensterFreitag at the whitney

#whitneyMuseum #NYC

One splendid development is the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot designed by Pamela Colman Smith is on display at the Whitney Museum as an essential work of modern art. There's one additional illustration by Smith as well. #riderwaite #tarot #whitneymuseum #modernart

Excellent art from the "No Existe un Mundo Poshuracan: Puerto Rican art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria" now at the Whitney. #puertoricanart #whitneymuseum #contemporaryart