Yektai vs Sterne

From the rich collection of Whitney Museum, New York 2024 ...

Manoucher Yektai's Untitled:

Hedda Sterne's New York, N.Y., 1955:

City Roofs, 1932-2024

Edward Hopper's 1932 painting City Roofs at Whitney Museum, New York 2024:

Views from Whitney, 2023-2024:

Jackson vs Staff

Part of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than The Real Thing currently still showing at Whitney Museum, New York ...

Suzanne Jackson's canvas-less paintings:

P. Staff's Afferent Nerves and À Travers Le Mal:

People Who Stutter Create: Stuttering Can Create Time

Part of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than The Real Thing, the art collective People Who Stutter Create's Stuttering Can Create Time currently at Whitney Museum, New York:

Portal

Dan Graham's Portal at Whitney Museum, New York 2023:

Giant Fagends

Claes Oldenburg's Giant Fagends at Whitney Museum, New York 2023:

Inheritance: Wallace + Guyton

Now that my holidays are over and I’m getting busier, my posts here will not be as frequent.  From the exhibition Inheritance currently at Whitney Museum, New York ...

Joan Wallace's Bob's Your Uncle:

Wade Guyton's Untitled Action Sculpture (Breuer):

Radical Contractions

Ilana Savdie from her solo exhibition Radical Contractions currently at Whitney Museum, New York:

The Anxious Journey vs Door To The River

Giorgio de Chirico's The Anxious Journey at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York 2023:

Willem de Kooning's Door To The River at Whitney Museum, New York 2023:

Project For A New American Century

Josh Kline from his solo exhibition Project For A New American Century currently at Whitney Museum, New York:

Arcangel vs Hantaï

Cory Arcangel at Whitney Museum, New York 2011:

Simon Hantaï at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York 2011:

Pro Tools

Cory Arcangel from his solo exhibition Pro Tools at Whitney Museum, New York 2011:

Singular Visions

Two very outstanding works I saw in NYC at Whitney Museum's exhibition Singular Visions - Robert Grosvenor's minimalist sculpture Tenerife and Paul Chan's 14-minute video projection 1st Light:

Video from WhitneyFocus' youtube channel

Grosvenor's Tenerife was mysteriously floating in mid-air - some might even argue that it's speedily flying - despite its seemingly heavy components.  Chan's 1st Light slowly unleashed its melancholic power as silhouettes of things and human figures appeared on the floor, where the video was projected.  Things (mobile phones, laptops, cars, sunglasses) were gloriously rising while human figures were tragically falling.  Both Grosvenor's and Chan's works are very powerful indeed.

Hello World*

Thursday nights are free nights at New Museum.  I went there on Thursday but it was too crowded.  So I decided to visit again on Friday.  They were showing Ostalgia, a survey of the art produced in and about the former communist European states.  Sharing a similar but slightly different theme of new art from central and eastern Europe is the Power Plant's current exhibition Rearview Mirror in Toronto.  I visited PP just before coming to New York.  So inevitably I have to compare the two shows.  I must say that I have enjoyed the NM show much better than PP's.  There are a few artists showing at Ostalgia that I intrinsically like.  Too bad photography was not allowed.  So I cannot show you.

Friday nights are free nights at Whitney Museum.  I went to see one of their featured shows - Cory Arcangel's Pro Tools.  When I was in Berlin last month, I saw another Arcangel exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof.  In fact, the two shows carry Arcangel's works from the same series.  So it's just like seeing the same show again - this time at a larger scale.  Arcangel has been exploring the interplay of digital technologies, internet culture and art in various media.  All his exhibited works here have incorporated the use of technological tools - either newly innovated or obsolete.

Arcangel at Whitney, New York 2011:

*Hello World is the title of a series of Arcangel's pen-plotter drawings shown at both exhibitions.