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Artists Among Us

Whitney Museum of American Art

The 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

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Minisode: Frank Benson on Castaway

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2026/08/06

In this episode, Frank Benson describes his hyperrealistic sculpture titled Castaway currently on view on the Floor 8 terrace. Benson, who mostly works in sculpture and photography, delves into exactly what a castaway is, and what "detritus" is used for the sculpture to come to life.

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7:32

Minisode: Mickalene Thomas on Alvin Ailey

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2025/01/31

In celebration of the exhibition Edges of Ailey, artist Mickalene Thomas recalls her first encounter with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the influence it has had on her life and work. Thomas created the work Revelation, a portrait of Katherine Dunham, specifically for the exhibition. In this minisode, Thomas shares an experience of seeing Revelations performed by the AILEY company for the first time in New York in 1995. Thomas also describes moments of overlap between the languag...

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6:28

Minisode: Matthew Rushing on Alvin Ailey

Artists Among Us ·

2025/01/31

In celebration of the exhibition Edges of Ailey, Matthew Rushing, the interim Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, takes us back to his first time seeing the company perform at the Wiltern Theater at twelve-years-old. Matthew discusses the memories of his mother taking him to see the performance, the experience of sitting in the front row, and the profound impact this moment had on the course of his life.

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9:35

Minisode: A Whitney curator on how a painting by...

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2024/08/20

Associate Curator Jennie Goldstein discusses how Day Clean, a painting by Eldzier Cortor (1916–2015), recently found its way into the Whitney's collection. She describes Cortor's interest in depicting Black American life in the South and how he drew influences from his travels to the Caribbean, African Art, European Surrealism, and American Realism.More about the exhibition: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/collection-1900-to-1965 See the art described in this minisode: https://whitney.o...

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5:26

Minisode: 2024 Whitney Biennial Artist Holly Herndon...

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2024/08/13

In this minisode, teens from the Whitney's Youth Insights Leaders program interview 2024 Biennial artist Holly Herndon. The conversation explores how the artist's identity and creative process are influenced by artificial intelligence (AI). They talk about the ethical use of AI, if AI can elicit an emotional response to art, and the evolution of the art world to include machine learning models as an art form. Visit the Whitney's portal to Internet and new media art, artport, to enter Holly He...

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11:42

Minisode: 2024 Whitney Biennial Artist Kiyan Williams...

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2024/08/05

In this minisode, teens from the Whitney's Youth Insights Leaders program interview 2024 Biennial artist Kiyan Williams. Williams has two artworks in the 2024 Whitney Biennial: a large sculpture of a neoclassical building made of brown soil that appears to be sinking into the ground, and a shiny chrome sculpture depicting the gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson. The teens talk to Williams about what the sculptures mean especially when seen together and at this particular moment in time.&nbs...

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10:36

Minisode: People Who Stutter Create on their 2024...

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2024/07/30

Today we hear from five artists who together form the collective People Who Stutter Create. For their contribution to the 2024 Biennial, the group mobilized the Whitney’s exhibition billboard at 95 Horatio Street, across the street from the Museum and the south end of the High Line. The artists, all of whom stutter, created a public artwork that celebrates the transformational space of dysfluency, a term that can encompass stuttering and other communication differences. In this minisode, we h...

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