(AGENPARL) – lun 25 settembre 2023 Please join us for a press preview for Henry Taylor: B Side and Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith at the Whitney on September 27
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** PRESS PREVIEW
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Henry Taylor B: Side and
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith
Wednesday, September 27
10 am–1 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street
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REMARKS
Beginning at 10:30 am in the 3rd Floor Susan and John Hess Family Theater
Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director
Scott Rothkopf, Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator
Barbara Haskell, Curator
Elisabeth Sussman, Curator
Streaming is available! If you are not able to attend in-person, remarks from the curators will be streamed live via YouTube (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=2f512f34f4&e=59415c6e7e) .
About the Exhibitions
Henry Taylor: B Side (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=18fb421747&e=59415c6e7e) is the first major New York survey of leading contemporary artist Henry Taylor (b. 1958, based in Los Angeles). Through paintings, rarely seen drawings, sculpture, and a new installation conceived for the Whitney, this retrospective celebrates thirty years of Taylor’s unique aesthetic, social vision, and freewheeling experimentation. Taylor’s figurative work, populated by friends, relatives, strangers on the street, athletes, politicians, and entertainers, showcases an imagination that encompasses multiple worlds. Informed by experience and a wide range of art-historical influences, his work conveys fundamental empathy through close examination and sharp social criticism. Henry Taylor: B Side is the largest exhibition of Taylor’s work to date, with over 130 works from the late-1980s to the present.
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=e927b512e2&e=59415c6e7e) is the first solo exhibition of artist, experimental filmmaker, radical nonconformist, and groundbreaking musicologist Harry Smith (1923–1991), whose compendium of song recordings, the Anthology of American Folk Music, laid the groundwork for the popularization of folk music in the 1960s. This major exhibition introduces Smith’s life and work within a museum setting for the first time through paintings, drawings, designs, films, and examples of Smith’s collections of objects ranging from string figures to paper airplanes. Designed in partnership with artist Carol Bove, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten brings to life the sights and sounds of Smith’s cosmological world, which transformed American art, music, and culture.
** PRESS CONTACT
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For press materials and image requests, please visit our press site at whitney.org/press or contact:
Ashley Reese, Director of Communications
Whitney Museum of American Art
(212) 671-1846
Whitney Press Office
whitney.org/press
(212) 570-3633
** EXHIBITION SUPPORT
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Henry Taylor: B Side is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
This exhibition is sponsored by
Generous support is provided by Judy Hart Angelo; the Barbara Haskell American Fellows Legacy Fund; Kevin and Rosemary McNeely, Manitou Fund; and the Whitney’s National Committee.
Major support is provided by The Keith Haring Foundation Exhibition Fund, Hauser & Wirth, and Sueyun and Gene Locks.
Significant support is provided by the Kapadia Equity Fund.
Additional support is provided by The Cowles Charitable Trust.
New York magazine is the exclusive media sponsor.
Generous support for Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
In New York, generous support is provided by Judy Hart Angelo, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation and the Whitney’s National Committee.
Significant support is provided by The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation.
Additional support is provided by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and the Yurman Family Foundation.
** ABOUT THE WHITNEY
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The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today.
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As a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people, the Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and program. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the perspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To read more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgment, visit the Museum’s website (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=792d08c0d3&e=59415c6e7e) .
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Image credit:
Left to right: Henry Taylor, the dress, ain’t me, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 84 1/4 × 72 in. (214 × 182.9 cm). Private collection; courtesy Irena Hochman Fine Art Ltd. © Henry Taylor. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photograph by Serge Hasenböhler; Harry Smith, Manteca [Jazz Painting], c. 1948–49. Lightbox projection from 35mm slide of lost original painting. Estate of Jordan Belson