Lawrence Weiner and Whitney curator Donna De Salvo lead a gallery talk on Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE in November 2007. Photograph by Tiffany Oelfke |
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Public Programs
The Whitney's public programs are designed to address key issues in twentieth-century and contemporary American art for a variety of adult audiences. Through these programs, the Museum offers a unique blend of new perspectives and well-known, established voices. Artists, architects, critics, scholars, and writers are invited to respond to special exhibitions, to illuminate the Whitney's permanent collection, or to examine important cultural and artistic trends.
Buckminster Fuller Symposium
Friday, September 12 - Saturday, September 13
The Great Hall of the Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street, at Astor Place
Visionary designer, philosopher, poet, inventor, engineer, and advocate of sustainability, Buckminster Fuller was one of the great transdisciplinary thinkers of the last century with a legacy that extends to nearly every field of the arts and sciences. This symposium takes its cue from Fuller's dictum, "I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment," and explores the diverse ways in which contemporary scholars and practitioners are pushing Fuller's ideas and projects into the 21st century.
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Special Course Offering
Evolution and Innovation in Modern American Art
with Professor Jonathan Weinberg
Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and held at the new 92YTribeca
This ten-part lecture series will focus on major themes in the history of modern American art, from the Stieglitz Circle, Social Realism, and the Harlem Renaissance in the first half of the twentieth century to abstraction and Pop art in the postwar period to Conceptual and Performance art in recent decades, and will provide a basis for understanding the expanded definitions of contemporary art.
Art historian Jonathan Weinberg holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on American art including The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere (2006). Weinberg is also an artist with works in public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Location:
92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St. (between Canal and Vestry)
Dates:
Mondays, September 22–December 8, 2008 (no lectures September 29, October 13).
Sessions available 12–1:30 pm or 6–7:30 pm.
The series will include two additional optional Friday evening sessions in the exhibition galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Cost:
Full series, $500
Half series, $275 -
Early 20th-Century Art (September 22–November 3) or Late 20th-Century Art (November 10–December 8)
Members receive 10% discount
Get more information and register at the 92YTribeca website, or call 92YTribeca Registration at 212-415-5500.
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