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