September 2018 Art News
Taking a contemporary perspective, the Whitney is looking back through their collection, reviewing how programming has evolved in modern and contemporary art. Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 begins with early conceptual works from artists like Sol LeWitt, Josef Albers, and Donald Judd, who used rules and instructions to guide their creative practices. By creating and working within these parameters, these early conceptual artists of the 1960s insisted that the idea behind the work was just as important as the work itself.
Dr. Mindy Besaw, Curator of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Dr. Steven Zucker discuss Nari Ward's We the People (black version), 2015 (shoelaces, 8 × 27 feet, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art).