Il Whitney Museum acquisisce 32 opere della Whitney Biennial 2017, tra cui Samara Golden e Raúl de Nieves.
Grazie a un’impennata di donazioni, la Whitney Collection di New York ha acquisito 32 opere della Biennale di quest’anno, rispetto alle 12 acquisizioni che hanno fatto seguito all’ultima edizione della manifestazione.
Le nuove acquisizioni e includono le installazioni di Samara Golden, Raúl de Nieves e il ritratto di Henry Taylor di Philando Castile, nonché i lavori di molti artisti che entreranno a far parte della collezione per la prima volta. Tra questi ci sono Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Shara Hughes, Carrie Moyer, Puppies Puppies e Jessie Reeves.
Questa la lista completa delle acquisizioni
Jo Baer
In the Land of the Giants (Spirals and Stars), 2012
Promised gift of Pamela M. and Robert B. Goergen
Larry Bell
Pacific Red V, 2017
Purchase, with funds from the Director’s Discretionary Fund, Josephine and Jason Kalisman, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Nathalie Marciano, Anthony and Celeste Meier, Ales Ortuzar, Ulysses de Santi and Graham Steele, Asher Waldfogel and Helyn MacLean, and Steven F. Roth
Raúl de Nieves
Beginning & the end neither & the otherwise betwixt & between the end is the beginning & the end, 2017
Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee, Mariel and Jack Cayre, and Jackson Tang
John Divola
Abandoned Painting B, 2007
Abandoned Paintings, 2007–08
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
Veterans Day, 2016
Promised gift of Jenny Brorsen and Rich DeMartini
Oto Gillen
New York, 2015–17
Promised gift of Robert Rosenkranz
Samara Golden
The Meat Grinder’s Iron Clothes, 2017
Promised gift of Danielle Ryan and Richard Bourke
Lyle Ashton Harris
Once (Now) Again, 2017
Purchase with funds from the Director’s Discretionary Fund and the Photography Committee
Shara Hughes
In the Clear, 2016
Purchase, with funds from Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz
Jon Kessler
Evolution, 2016
Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee
Deana Lawson
Sons of Cush, 2016
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee and the Nias Foundation
Deana Lawson
Signs, 2016
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee and the Nias Foundation
An-My Lê
Monument, General P.G.T. Beauregard, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016
Purchase with funds from the Photography Committee
An-My Lê
Film Set (“Free State of Jones”), Battle of Corinth, Bush, Louisiana, 2015–17
Purchase with funds from the Photography Committee
Tala Madani
Shitty Disco, 2016
Purchase, with funds from Jonathan Sobel and Marcia Dunn
Park McArthur
Another word for memory is life, 2017
Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee
Carrie Moyer
Glimmer Glass, 2016
Promised gift of Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins
Julien Nguyen
Executive Solutions, 2017
Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee
Aliza Nisenbaum
MOIA’s NYC Women’s Cabinet, 2016
Gift of Jackson Tang in honor of Christopher Y. Lew
Aliza Nisenbaum
2 Years of Correspondence from Inmate 39807, 2016
Promised gift of Jenny Brorsen and Rich DeMartini
Puppies Puppies
Liberty (Liberté), 2017
Purchase, with funds from Brooke Garber Neidich and Daniel Miller Neidich in honor of Scott Rothkopf and Jonathan Burnham
Jessi Reaves
Ottoman with Parked Chairs, 2017
Purchase, with funds from Allison and Warren B. Kanders in honor of Scott Rothkopf and Jonathan Burnham
Cauleen Smith
I’m So Black That I Blind You, 2017
Purchase, with funds from Mike De Paola in honor of Scott Rothkopf and Jonathan Burnham
Cauleen Smith
The Comedians, 2017
Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Director’s Discretionary Funds
Cauleen Smith
No Wonder I Go Under, 2017
Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Director’s Discretionary Funds
Cauleen Smith
I Have Nothing Left, 2017
Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Director’s Discretionary Funds
Cauleen Smith
Black Flesh, 2017
Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Director’s Discretionary Funds
Frances Stark
Ian F. Svenonius’s “Censorship Now” for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Spread 1 of 8 (Sincerely), 2017
Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee
Frances Stark
Ian F. Svenonius’s “Censorship Now” for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Spread 3 of 8 (pp. 16–17) (the state, like a rampaging mob boss), 2017
Purchase, with funds from Nancy Carrington Crown and A. Steven Crown in honor of Scott Rothkopf and Jonathan Burnham
Henry Taylor
THE TIMES THAY AINT A CHANGING, FAST ENOUGH!, 2017
Purchase, with funds from Jonathan Sobel & Marcia Dunn
Torey Thornton
Painting, 2017
Purchase, with funds from David Ofer
Anicka Yi
The Flavor Genome, 2016
Promised gift of Robert Rosenkranz