Artists Among Us

Minisode: Frank Benson on Castaway

In this episode, Frank Benson describes his hyperrealistic sculpture titled Castaway currently on view on the Floor 8 terrace. Benson, who mostly works in sculpture and p

Minisode: Mickalene Thomas on Alvin Ailey

In celebration of the exhibition Edges of Ailey, artist Mickalene Thomas recalls her first encounter with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the influence it has

Minisode: Matthew Rushing on Alvin Ailey

In celebration of the exhibition Edges of Ailey, Matthew Rushing, the interim Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, takes us back to his first time

Minisode: Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands

In this episode, photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe talks about documenting the Gullah Geechee people of Daufuskie Island. Over a five-year period, the photographs reve

Minisode: exhibition curator Adrienne Edwards on Edges of Ailey

In this minisode, exhibition curator Adrienne Edwards describes the new Edges of Ailey “extravaganza” dedicated to the life, dances, and enduring legacy of the legendary

Minisode: A Whitney curator on how a painting by Eldzier Cortor found its way into the collection

Associate Curator Jennie Goldstein discusses how Day Clean, a painting by Eldzier Cortor (1916–2015), recently found its way into the Whitney's collection. She descr

Minisode: 2024 Whitney Biennial Artist Holly Herndon in Conversation with Whitney Youth Insights Leaders

In this minisode, teens from the Whitney's Youth Insights Leaders program interview 2024 Biennial artist Holly Herndon. The conversation explores how the artist&apos

Minisode: 2024 Whitney Biennial Artist Kiyan Williams in Conversation with Whitney Youth Insights Leaders

In this minisode, teens from the Whitney's Youth Insights Leaders program interview 2024 Biennial artist Kiyan Williams. Williams has two artworks in the 2024 Whitne

Minisode: People Who Stutter Create on their 2024 Whitney Biennial Artwork

Today we hear from five artists who together form the collective People Who Stutter Create. For their contribution to the 2024 Biennial, the group mobilized the Whitney’s

Minisode: Maja Ruznic on her 2024 Whitney Biennial Artworks

Today we hear from Maja Ruznic about one of her two paintings in the Biennial. She talks about finding beauty in sadness, her path to becoming the artist she is today, an

Minisode: Cannupa Hanska Luger on his 2024 Whitney Biennial Artwork

In this minisode, we hear from Cannupa Hanska Luger about his Biennial artwork that takes the form of a tipi inverted and hung from the ceiling of the gallery. But Luger

Minisode: Dala Nasser on her 2024 Whitney Biennial Artwork

In this minisode, we hear from 2024 Whitney Biennial artist Dala Nasser. Her work is titled Adonis River and she made it along the banks of that river, now called the Abr

Minisode: Eamon Ore-Giron on his 2024 Whitney Biennial Artworks

This spring and summer we’ll be sitting down with 2024 Whitney Biennial artists to talk about their work and what it means to be making art in the present unfolding momen

Minisode: Kambui Olujimi on two works made in quarantine

Two works by artist Kambui Olujimi are currently on view in the exhibition Inheritance, open through February. Olujimi made Hart Island Crew and Your King Is on Fire in 2

Minisode: Virginia Overton on Ruth Asawa

"There's an urgency in her work. There's a rhythm that exists in her drawings and sculptures that I'm really attracted to as well." On the occasion of Ruth

Minisode: Sadie Barnette on Family Tree II

Sadie Barnette joins us in the galleries to discuss her multimedia artwork Family Tree II, currently on view in Inheritance through February 2024. The piece is a holograp

Minisode: Ilana Savdie and Carmen Maria Machado on trickery, horror, and the uncanny

On the occasion of her Whitney exhibition and as part of the Whitney's public programming, artist Ilana Savdie invited writer Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Bod

Minisode: Greil Marcus on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

On the occasion of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith we spoke to Greil Marcus, acclaimed music author, journalist, and critic, about the reverberatio

Minisode: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith on her Whitney Retrospective

"The maps that I've been doing, I see them as landscapes and they all tell stories." Hear from artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940, citizen of the Confederated

Miniepisodio: Paseo por la Historia Queer

El barrio que hoy ocupa el Whitney fue en su día un lugar de encuentro y creación de comunidad queer. Este miniepisodio rinde homenaje a los lugares donde las personas qu