Whitney Focus

Whitney Focus presents original video programming from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The Whitney houses one of the worl...

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13:29:40 08/03/09

Peter Halley discusses his painting The Acid Test. In this video, Halley references technology, the city grid, and prisons as influences on his iconography. He a...

Whitney Focus presents Peter Halley's "The Acid Test"

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Whitney Focus presents Peter Halley's "The Acid Test"

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Peter Halley discusses his painting The Acid Test. In this video, Halley references technology, the city grid, and prisons as influences on his iconography. He also discusses his use of Day-Glo paint to express the ecstatic, euphoric feeling that went into the work.

Gary Simmons on "Gh...
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12:34:33 07/29/09

Gary Simmons discusses Ghoster, an erasure drawing based upon his childhood memories of roller coasters such as the Coney Island Cyclone. In this video, Simmons ex...

Gary Simmons on "Ghoster"

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Gary Simmons on "Ghoster"

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Gary Simmons discusses Ghoster, an erasure drawing based upon his childhood memories of roller coasters such as the Coney Island Cyclone. In this video, Simmons explains how Ghoster negotiates issues of race and access, and speaks to the significance of these types of shared sites and experiences.

Whitney Focus prese...
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11:15:50 06/10/09

Curator Dana Miller narrates the assembling of Claes Oldenburg's Giant BLT (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwich) . Using early installation photographs as a refer...

Whitney Focus presents Claes Oldenburg's "Giant BLT"

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Whitney Focus presents Claes Oldenburg's "Giant BLT"

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Curator Dana Miller narrates the assembling of Claes Oldenburg's Giant BLT (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwich) . Using early installation photographs as a reference, Miller guides art handlers through the placement of each of the "bacon," "lettuce," and "tomatoes" of the soft sculpture. This careful process is one of the many ways, the curator explains, in which Oldenburg’s work encourages the viewer to "look at your world with fresh eyes."

Whitney Focus prese...
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12:22:50 06/04/09

Artist Lynda Benglis discusses the process of creating Contraband by pigmenting rubber latex and pouring it on the floor of her studio. First recognized for “spi...

Whitney Focus presents Lynda Benglis

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Whitney Focus presents Lynda Benglis

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Artist Lynda Benglis discusses the process of creating Contraband by pigmenting rubber latex and pouring it on the floor of her studio. First recognized for “spill” pieces such as this one, Benglis explains how her materials relate to nature, chemistry, and cooking.

Whitney Focus prese...
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14:21:02 05/11/09

This podcast focuses on the politics of Jenny Holzers work on view in "PROTECT PROTECT" at the Whitney Museum.. It features Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst at the Natio...

Whitney Focus presents Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT

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Whitney Focus presents Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT

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This podcast focuses on the politics of Jenny Holzers work on view in "PROTECT PROTECT" at the Whitney Museum.. It features Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive and Laurel Fletcher, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley. Doyle offers a close look at Holzers "Redaction Paintings", which feature declassified government documents pertaining to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fletcher discusses "Lustmord"—a series of texts Holzer wrote in response to the systematic raping of Bosnian women by Serbian soldiers in the genocidal war in the former Yugoslavia.

Installation of Jen...
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11:30:08 03/30/09

Watch a time-lapse video of the installation of the LED sculpture For Chicago (2008) from the exhibition Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT , on view at the Whitney ...

Installation of Jenny Holzer's "For Chicago" - Whitney Museum

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Installation of Jenny Holzer's "For Chicago" - Whitney Museum

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Watch a time-lapse video of the installation of the LED sculpture For Chicago (2008) from the exhibition Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT , on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through May 31, 2009.

Paul McCarthy: Cent...
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12:27:29 09/16/08

Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, discusses Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement. This exhibit...

Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement, Three In...

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Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement, Three Installations, Two Films

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Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, discusses Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement. This exhibition brings together a group of new and rarely seen works by Paul McCarthy (b. 1945), one of the most important American artists of his generation. The installations, films, photographs, and drawings on view focus on a central element of McCarthy's practice: the way the body is destabilized through dislocations of architectural space. The disorientation that threads though all of the works shown here is at once formal, corporeal, and psychological. The screens, projectors, and rotating cameras of Spinning Room place the viewer at the center of hypnotic environment whereas the moving walls and doors of Bang Bang Room collapse our notion of stable architectural space. In Madhouse the walls and chair spinning at varying speeds conjure a similar state of physical and mental disorientation.

Buckminster Fuller:...
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12:24:03 08/29/08

Co-curators Dana Miller and Michael Hays discuss Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, an exhibition featuring one of the great American visionaries of t...

Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe

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Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe

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Co-curators Dana Miller and Michael Hays discuss Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, an exhibition featuring one of the great American visionaries of the twentieth century. Utilizing his doing "more with less" credo, Fuller's designs endeavored to benefit the largest portion of humanity while consuming the minimum amount of the earth's resources. This video presents four examples of Fuller's integrated approach to the design and technology of housing, transportation, and cartography--the Dymaxion House , ca. 1930, Dymaxion Transport Vehicle , ca.1933 , Wichita House , ca. 1945, and The Fuller Projection Map , ca. 1943.

Omer Fast: 2008 Whi...
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09:45:15 05/16/08

Omer Fast, winner of the 2008 Bucksbaum Award, discusses his 2008 Whitney Biennial work, "The Casting" (2007), a four-channel video featuring a young American army...

Omer Fast: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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Omer Fast: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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Omer Fast, winner of the 2008 Bucksbaum Award, discusses his 2008 Whitney Biennial work, "The Casting" (2007), a four-channel video featuring a young American army sergeant who recounts two stories--which seem to be his own anguished memories--one about dating a woman while stationed in Germany, and the other of accidentally killing a civilian in Iraq.

Lisa Sigal: 2008 Wh...
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20:41:12 04/10/08

Artist Lisa Sigal talks about her 2008 Whitney Biennial work, "The Day before Yesterday and the Day after Tomorrow--a "painting of a painting" that extends through...

Lisa Sigal: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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Lisa Sigal: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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Artist Lisa Sigal talks about her 2008 Whitney Biennial work, "The Day before Yesterday and the Day after Tomorrow--a "painting of a painting" that extends throughout the museum.

Curators Henriette ...
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14:51:07 04/10/08

2008 Whitney Biennial Curators Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin share some of their ideas and insights about the process of putting together the exhibition.

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Curators Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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2008 Whitney Biennial Curators Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin share some of their ideas and insights about the process of putting together the exhibition.

Walead Beshty: 2008...
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21:32:56 04/07/08

2008 Whitney Biennial artist Walead Beshty discusses his photographs of the former Iraqi embassy to the former East Germany (two nations that no longer exist) and ...

Walead Beshty: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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Walead Beshty: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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2008 Whitney Biennial artist Walead Beshty discusses his photographs of the former Iraqi embassy to the former East Germany (two nations that no longer exist) and the complex ideas behind them. He also explains why his glass sculptures have acquired multiple cracks and fissures.

Fritz Haeg: 2008 Wh...
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08:04:44 04/04/08

Artist Fritz Haeg's project for the 2008 Whitney Biennial is "Animal Estates 1.0: New York, New York." The project consists of model homes for animals (including t...

Fritz Haeg: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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Fritz Haeg: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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Artist Fritz Haeg's project for the 2008 Whitney Biennial is "Animal Estates 1.0: New York, New York." The project consists of model homes for animals (including the Beaver, Bald Eagle, and the Mason Bee among others) that once lived in the vicinity of the Whitney Museum 400 years ago.

Charles Long: 2008 ...
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08:03:15 04/04/08

Walks along the L.A. River Basin inspired artist Charles Long's installation of sculptures and photographs in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. His commentary details the...

Charles Long: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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Charles Long: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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Walks along the L.A. River Basin inspired artist Charles Long's installation of sculptures and photographs in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. His commentary details the rich birdlife he found there and describes how he uses materials from the river to make his sculptures.

MK Guth: 2008 Whitn...
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08:01:29 04/04/08

For the 2008 Biennial artist, MK Guth created a participatory artwork called "Ties of Protection and Safekeeping." She invites visitors to the Park Avenue Armory t...

MK Guth: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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MK Guth: 2008 Whitney Biennial

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For the 2008 Biennial artist, MK Guth created a participatory artwork called "Ties of Protection and Safekeeping." She invites visitors to the Park Avenue Armory to answer the question "What is Worth Protecting?" Visitors write their answers on strips of red flannel cloth which MK Guth weaves into a long braid that grows longer every day.

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