Virtually explore the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City with Smarthistory as your guide
Some background
videos + essays
Link to the Whitney Museum's website
Muriel Hasbun, X post facto (6.7)
Hasbun's photograph of an X-ray is deeply laden with meaning and tragedy.
Genesis Báez, Crossing Time
Báez’s photograph poetically expresses the tie between the artist and her origins.
Muriel Hasbun, Todos los santos (Volcán de Izalco, amén)
Superimposing Arabic calligraphy over a photograph of El Salvador's Izalco volcano, Hasbun reflects on her family's diasporic origins.
David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (One Day This Kid . . .)
Having the young Wojnarowicz’s face disseminated as a visible queer child was a potent political symbol.
Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
Shahn makes an not-so-subtle comparison between Christ and two Italians executed for a crime they didn’t commit.
Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece)
This sculpture was hanging in the artist’s studio at the time of her death; it can be hung in numerous ways.
Robert Morris, (Untitled) L-Beams
Are these objects the same size? Morris challenges our perception.
