Artists Among Us
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Minisode: Matthew Rushing on Alvin Ailey
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In celebration of the exhibition Edges of Ailey, Matthew Rushing, the interim Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, takes us ba...
Minisode: Mickalene Thomas on Alvin Ailey
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In celebration of the exhibition Edges of Ailey, artist Mickalene Thomas recalls her first encounter with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and ...
Minisode: Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe talks about documenting the Gullah Geechee people of Daufuskie Island. Over a five-year period, ...
Minisode: exhibition curator Adrienne Edwards on Edges of Ailey
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this minisode, exhibition curator Adrienne Edwards describes the new Edges of Ailey “extravaganza” dedicated to the life, dances, and enduring...
Minisode: A Whitney curator on how a painting by Eldzier Cortor found its way into the collection
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Associate Curator Jennie Goldstein discusses how Day Clean, a painting by Eldzier Cortor (1916–2015), recently found its way into the Whitney's...
Minisode: 2024 Whitney Biennial Artist Holly Herndon in Conversation with Whitney Youth Insights Leaders
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this minisode, teens from the Whitney's Youth Insights Leaders program interview 2024 Biennial artist Holly Herndon. The conversation explores...
Minisode: 2024 Whitney Biennial Artist Kiyan Williams in Conversation with Whitney Youth Insights Leaders
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this minisode, teens from the Whitney's Youth Insights Leaders program interview 2024 Biennial artist Kiyan Williams. Williams has two artwork...
Minisode: People Who Stutter Create on their 2024 Whitney Biennial Artwork
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we hear from five artists who together form the collective People Who Stutter Create. For their contribution to the 2024 Biennial, the group mob...
Minisode: Maja Ruznic on her 2024 Whitney Biennial Artworks
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we hear from Maja Ruznic about one of her two paintings in the Biennial. She talks about finding beauty in sadness, her path to becoming the art...
Minisode: Cannupa Hanska Luger on his 2024 Whitney Biennial Artwork
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this minisode, we hear from Cannupa Hanska Luger about his Biennial artwork that takes the form of a tipi inverted and hung from the ceiling of the...
Minisode: Dala Nasser on her 2024 Whitney Biennial Artwork
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this minisode, we hear from 2024 Whitney Biennial artist Dala Nasser. Her work is titled Adonis River and she made it along the banks of that river...
Minisode: Eamon Ore-Giron on his 2024 Whitney Biennial Artworks
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This spring and summer we’ll be sitting down with 2024 Whitney Biennial artists to talk about their work and what it means to be making art in the p...
Minisode: Kambui Olujimi on two works made in quarantine
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two works by artist Kambui Olujimi are currently on view in the exhibition Inheritance, open through February. Olujimi made Hart Island Crew and Your ...
Minisode: Virginia Overton on Ruth Asawa
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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....
Minisode: Sadie Barnette on Family Tree II
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sadie Barnette joins us in the galleries to discuss her multimedia artwork Family Tree II, currently on view in Inheritance through February 2024. The...
Minisode: Ilana Savdie and Carmen Maria Machado on trickery, horror, and the uncanny
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the occasion of her Whitney exhibition and as part of the Whitney's public programming, artist Ilana Savdie invited writer Carmen Maria Machad...
Minisode: Greil Marcus on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the occasion of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith we spoke to Greil Marcus, acclaimed music author, journalist, and critic, ab...
Minisode: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith on her Whitney Retrospective
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Miniepisodio: Paseo por la Historia Queer
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
El 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...
Minisode: Queer History Walk
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The neighborhood that the Whitney now occupies once provided a place to find and create queer community. This minisode pays tribute to the sites where...
Minisode: Rose B. Simpson on Counterculture
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“They are watching, they show us, they embody, they personify the inanimate that our modern culture often forgets is constantly witnessing us.” In...
Minisode: American Artist on Mother of All Demos III
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The earliest computer interfaces always had blackness as a sort of basis of what could be done on a computer." In this minisode American Ar...
S1, E5: Making the Ghost Visible
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is 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 t...
S1, E4: Coastline Cultures: The Evolution of Manhattan’s Waterfront
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anchored 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...
S1, E3: Latex and Lard in the Meatpacking District
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A vibrant Queer community inhabited Manhattan’s Meatpacking District when Gordon Matta-Clark created a sculpture by carving into Pier 52 on the Huds...
S1, E2: A Cathedral of Light on the Hudson River
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did the artist Gordon Matta-Clark transform a dilapidated shipping pier into a “cathedral of light”? In this episode, we trace the decline of ...
S1, E1: The Dawn of Day’s End
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our inaugural episode introduces David Hammons’s Day’s End (2014–21). As we discuss the project’s origins and site-specific nature, the layere...
This Is Artists Among Us: Day's End
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Artists Among Us, a podcast about American art and culture. In keeping with the Whitney’s mission, colle...