The collection floors at the Whitney Museum of American Art, before the Biennial: Gonzalez-Torres’s light strings, a Newman zip, Frankenthaler’s stained blue, Paik’s magnet bending a TV picture.
Grows from
Grows from the Whitney Museum of American Art, a seed.
Works with their own notes
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (America) (1994)
- Barnett Newman, The Promise (1949)
- Nam June Paik, Magnet TV (1965)
Also seen: Whitney Biennial 2026.
Logged on the way through
- Helen Frankenthaler, Blue Form in a Scene, 1961: “The color and the edges blending together with some seeping into the background makes it feel like a dream.”
In the rooms
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (America), 1994
Helen Frankenthaler, Blue Form in a Scene, 1961
Barnett Newman, The Promise, 1949
Nam June Paik, Magnet TV, 1965