Robert Whitman: links
Selected records, interviews, criticism, institutional histories, and audiovisual sources situate Whitman’s work across performance and technology.
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Art Blocks 500Interviews
The Menil Collection’s Artists Documentation Program transcript examines the material and technical requirements of Whitman’s work.
Artists Documentation ProgramThe Rauschenberg Foundation’s illustrated oral-history transcript records Whitman’s memories of artists, technologies, and performances.
Rauschenberg oral historyLACMA’s Art + Technology interview addresses repeatability, collaboration, and the technological life of performance.
LACMA Art + TechnologyPress and criticism
The Art Newspaper obituary assesses Whitman’s experiments with performance, participation, and technology.
The Art NewspaperThe Walker Art Center Reader situates Whitman’s projected-image practice within expanded cinema and the media avant-garde.
Walker ReaderThe Wire preview describes Passport as a non-narrative theater work using video, sound, and artist-made props.
The WireMuseums and institutions
MoMA’s artist record indexes works and the museum’s 1973 Projects exhibition.
MoMAMACBA’s exhibition archive identifies Whitman as a performance precursor and pioneer in creative uses of new technology.
MACBAThe MIT List Visual Arts Center records Whitman’s residency and the creation of Black Dirt.
MIT ListMuseo Reina Sofía records its presentation of The American Moon.
Reina SofíaDia’s collection index provides an institutional pathway through Whitman’s works and publications.
Dia collectionGalleries and exhibitions
Pace’s film page presents a full performance of American Moon and identifies its original 1960 staging.
American Moon filmFrieze’s event listing records the 2023 American Moon presentation in New York.
Frieze eventEssays, talks and podcasts
Edward A. Shanken’s Artforum essay surveys more than fifty years of Whitman’s theater pieces and technological collaborations.
Artforum essayThe Arts Company documents Black Dirt and its contemporary radio interview context.
Black DirtAuctions and catalogues
Pace’s selected one-artist exhibition history provides a chronological catalogue of Whitman’s solo presentations.
Exhibition chronologyProfiles and archives
Raster aggregates Robert Whitman's tokenized works across platforms.
RasterThe Weisman Art Museum maintains an institutional artist profile for Whitman.
Weisman profileVideo
The Performances from the 1960s video record includes footage and commentary concerning American Moon, Flower, Prune Flat, and Ghost.
Performances from the 1960sUse this research
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