Artists Among Us
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsThe Whitney Museum of American Art presents Artists Among Us, a podcast about American art and culture. We tell stories revealing the complexities and contradictions that have shaped life in the United States today.
Minisodes feature brief conversations about artworks and events in and around the Whitney. The series is ongoing.
Season 1: Day's End considers the American artist David Hammons's sculpture, Day's End (2014–21) anchored on the banks of Manhattan’s West Side and stretching into the Hudson River. We follow the evolution of the Manhattan coastline through the history of the Meatpacking District, and celebrate the communities that have shaped the neighborhood where the Whitney now stands. This podcast was produced by Sound Made Public in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Episodes
Minisode: Kambui Olujimi on two works made in quarantine
January 16, 2024 20:00 - 7 minutes - 5.15 MBTwo works by artist Kambui Olujimi are currently on view in the exhibition Inheritance, open through February. Olujimi made Hart Island Crew and Your King Is on Fire in 2020 during lockdown and both paintings describe tumultuous moments familiar to us all. We sat down with Olujimi to hear more about these emotive works. More about the exhibition: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/inheritance See the art described in this minisode: https://whitney.org/collection/works/64950 and https://whitney...
Minisode: Virginia Overton on Ruth Asawa
December 20, 2023 15:00 - 6 minutes - 4.8 MB"There's an urgency in her work. There's a rhythm that exists in her drawings and sculptures that I'm really attracted to as well." On the occasion of Ruth Asawa Through Line we chatted with Virginia Overton about what she finds so inspiring about Asawa's work. She speaks about two pieces: a print made from the body of a fish, and an ink drawing showing the cross-section of a redwood tree. More about the exhibition: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/ruth-asawa-through-line See the art descr...
Minisode: Sadie Barnette on Family Tree II
December 08, 2023 18:00 - 5 minutes - 3.97 MBSadie Barnette joins us in the galleries to discuss her multimedia artwork Family Tree II, currently on view in Inheritance through February 2024. The piece is a holographic vinyl upholstered couch in front of a constellation of framed images. “It's really a self-portrait as a relational way of being,” she says, “who I am based on who I am from and who I am in relation to.” More about the exhibition: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/inheritance
Minisode: Ilana Savdie and Carmen Maria Machado on trickery, horror, and the uncanny
October 27, 2023 21:00 - 9 minutes - 6.29 MBOn the occasion of her Whitney exhibition and as part of the Whitney's public programming, artist Ilana Savdie invited writer Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House, to discuss their respective practices. In this excerpt from that program Savdie and Machdo discuss their overlapping interests, from power dynamics mediated through the body to trickery as a form of resistance. The conversation is moderated by Whitney Curator Marcela Guerrero and the ex...
Minisode: Greil Marcus on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
September 27, 2023 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.62 MBOn the occasion of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith we spoke to Greil Marcus, acclaimed music author, journalist, and critic, about the reverberations felt around the world after the 1952 release of Harry Smith's highly influential multivolume Anthology of American Folk Music. "It was a sensibility—this set that Harry Smith created—that was passed on to people. Where it said to them, 'There's more in this music. There's more in this country than you ever imagined, so se...
Minisode: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith on her Whitney Retrospective
June 23, 2023 16:00 - 6 minutes - 4.73 MB"The maps that I've been doing, I see them as landscapes and they all tell stories." Hear from artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation) on the occasion of her Whitney retrospective, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map on view through August 13, 2023. More about the exhibition: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/jaune-quick-to-see-smith
Miniepisodio: Paseo por la Historia Queer
June 16, 2023 15:00 - 5 minutes - 3.52 MBEl barrio que hoy ocupa el Whitney fue en su día un lugar de encuentro y creación de comunidad queer. Este miniepisodio rinde homenaje a los lugares donde las personas que buscaban la libertad sexual se reunían para relacionarse, relajarse, salir de fiesta y organizarse. Miniepisodio invitado: Camilo Godoy, Educador del Whitney. Para más información sobre la historia queer del Meatpacking District, consulte la audioguía completa: https://whitney.org/audio-guides/94
Minisode: Queer History Walk
June 05, 2023 20:00 - 5 minutes - 4.12 MBThe neighborhood that the Whitney now occupies once provided a place to find and create queer community. This minisode pays tribute to the sites where people seeking sexual freedom once gathered to connect, relax, party, and organize. Minisode guest: Camilo Godoy, Whitney Educator. For more about the queer history of the Meatpacking District, check out the full audio tour: https://whitney.org/audio-guides/94
Minisode: Rose B. Simpson on Counterculture
June 05, 2023 17:00 - 7 minutes - 5.2 MB“They are watching, they show us, they embody, they personify the inanimate that our modern culture often forgets is constantly witnessing us.” In this minisode Rose B. Simpson discusses Counterculture, five watchful figures on view on the Whitney's Floor 5 terrace. Minisode guest: Rose B. Simpson. View these artworks and access the transcript of this conversation on the Whitney's audio guide: https://whitney.org/audio-guides/90
Minisode: American Artist on Mother of All Demos III
March 31, 2023 15:00 - 6 minutes - 4.84 MB"The earliest computer interfaces always had blackness as a sort of basis of what could be done on a computer." In this minisode American Artist considers the inception of the computer interface and asks how that origin story has shaped computation today. For whom were computers created? What purpose do they serve? Minisode guest: American Artist. View Mother of All Demos III and access the transcript of the conversation: https://whitney.org/collection/works/65698
Making the Ghost Visible
June 10, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBIs Day’s End (2014–21) an anti-monument for our time? In this episode, we return to the sculpture itself: how it makes meaning, how it fits into the surrounding environment, and what public art tells us about freedom and power. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Glenn Ligon, Kellie Jones, Tom Finkelpearl, Mabel O. Wilson, Adam Weinberg, Ken Lum, An-My Lê, Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt, Elegance Bratton, Stefanie Rivera, Curtis Zunigha. whitney....
S1, E5: Making the Ghost Visible
June 10, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBIs Day’s End (2014–21) an anti-monument for our time? In this episode, we return to the sculpture itself: how it makes meaning, how it fits into the surrounding environment, and what public art tells us about freedom and power. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Glenn Ligon, Kellie Jones, Tom Finkelpearl, Mabel O. Wilson, Adam Weinberg, Ken Lum, An-My Lê, Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt, Elegance Bratton, Stefanie Rivera, Curtis Zunigha.
Coastline Cultures: The Evolution of Manhattan’s Waterfront
June 04, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBAnchored in the Gansevoort Peninsula and reaching out into the Hudson River, Day’s End (2014–21) was designed to be permanent. But for hundreds of years, the site has been in constant flux. In this episode, architects, environmentalists, Lenape elders, and artists inform some of the ways in which the many people connected to this place endeavor to keep it alive. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Luc Sante, Catherine Seavitt, Adam Weinberg, Jessamyn Fio...
S1, E4: Coastline Cultures: The Evolution of Manhattan’s Waterfront
June 04, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBAnchored in the Gansevoort Peninsula and reaching out into the Hudson River, Day’s End (2014–21) was designed to be permanent. But for hundreds of years, the site has been in constant flux. In this episode, architects, environmentalists, Lenape elders, and artists inform some of the ways in which the many people connected to this place endeavor to keep it alive. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Luc Sante, Catherine Seavitt, Adam Weinberg, Jessamyn Fiore, L...
Latex and Lard in the Meatpacking District
May 28, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBA vibrant Queer community inhabited Manhattan’s Meatpacking District when Gordon Matta-Clark created a sculpture by carving into Pier 52 on the Hudson River. This episode recalls a golden age when sex, art, and creativity converged on the waterfront in the years prior to the AIDS crisis in New York City. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Andrew Berman, Betsy Sussler, Efrain Gonzalez, Paul Gallay, Jonathan Weinberg, Laura Harris, Egyptt LaBeija, Tom Fin...
S1, E3: Latex and Lard in the Meatpacking District
May 28, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBA vibrant Queer community inhabited Manhattan’s Meatpacking District when Gordon Matta-Clark created a sculpture by carving into Pier 52 on the Hudson River. This episode recalls a golden age when sex, art, and creativity converged on the waterfront in the years prior to the AIDS crisis in New York City. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Andrew Berman, Betsy Sussler, Efrain Gonzalez, Paul Gallay, Jonathan Weinberg, Laura Harris, Egyptt LaBeija, Tom Finklepe...
A Cathedral of Light on the Hudson River
May 21, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBHow did the artist Gordon Matta-Clark transform a dilapidated shipping pier into a “cathedral of light”? In this episode, we trace the decline of Manhattan’s formerly flourishing meat markets and waterfront industries. Amid the decay, Matta-Clark spotted the potential for beauty. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Betsy Sussler, Jonathan Weinberg, Jane Crawford, Andrew Berman, Tom Finkelpearl, Adam Weinberg, Laura Harris, Florent Morellet, Catherine Sea...
S1, E2: A Cathedral of Light on the Hudson River
May 21, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBHow did the artist Gordon Matta-Clark transform a dilapidated shipping pier into a “cathedral of light”? In this episode, we trace the decline of Manhattan’s formerly flourishing meat markets and waterfront industries. Amid the decay, Matta-Clark spotted the potential for beauty. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Betsy Sussler, Jonathan Weinberg, Jane Crawford, Andrew Berman, Tom Finkelpearl, Adam Weinberg, Laura Harris, Florent Morellet, Catherine Seavitt,...
S1, E1: The Dawn of Day’s End
May 14, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBOur inaugural episode introduces David Hammons’s Day’s End (2014–21). As we discuss the project’s origins and site-specific nature, the layered social and cultural histories of the site begin to unfold. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Bill T. Jones, Glenn Ligon, Adam Weinberg, Tom Finkelpearl, Kellie Jones, Luc Sante, Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt, Betsy Sussler.
The Dawn of Day’s End
May 14, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBOur inaugural episode introduces David Hammons’s Day’s End (2014–21). As we discuss the project’s origins and site-specific nature, the layered social and cultural histories of the site begin to unfold. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Bill T. Jones, Glenn Ligon, Adam Weinberg, Tom Finkelpearl, Kellie Jones, Luc Sante, Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt, Betsy Sussler. whitney.org/podcast
This Is Artists Among Us: Day's End
May 03, 2021 04:00 - 2 minutes - 1.7 MBThe Whitney Museum of American Art presents Artists Among Us, a podcast about American art and culture. In keeping with the Whitney’s mission, collection, and programming, Artists Among Us considers the complexities and contradictions that have shaped the United States we experience today. Hosted by Carrie Mae Weems. Episode guests (in order of appearance): Kellie Jones, Glenn Ligon, Curtis Zunigha, John Jobaggy, Efrain Gonzalez, Catherine Seavitt.