BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Westbeth - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Westbeth X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://westbeth.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Westbeth REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250509 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250526 DTSTAMP:20260423T151958 CREATED:20250426T003533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T014820Z UID:10000760-1746748800-1748217599@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Whitney Museum ISP Annual Exhibitions and Symposium DESCRIPTION:More Photos\nClick image to start slide show\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\nClick to enlarge \nThe Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) marks the culmination of the 2024–25 academic year with two capstone exhibitions: the ISP Curatorial Studies Exhibition at Ramscale Penthouse\, May 9–18\, the ISP Studio Exhibition at Westbeth Gallery\, May 9–25\, and a symposium at the Whitney on Sunday\, May 18. \nThese presentations showcase the work of the 2024–25 ISP cohort across three areas of concentration: Curatorial Studies Program\, Studio Program\, and Critical Studies Program. \n \nThe ISP Curatorial Studies Exhibition at Ramscale Penthouse\, May 9–18\, \nThe Curatorial Studies Program presents a grammar of attention\, an exhibition that aims to\ndraw attention to what artists Gordon Matta-Clark and\, almost four decades later\, David\nHammons carried out on the Hudson River in New York. Situated in a space that offers a\nsingular view of Hammons’s Day’s End (2014-21) on the piers\, this exhibition acknowledges the\ncontiguous gestures as an invitation to attend to places\, infrastructures\, and social relations.\nInvoking the spirit of Hammons and Matta-Clark\, a grammar of attention gathers artistic\npractices that attune themselves to the material realities that mark our worlds. The exhibition\nunfolds as a resonant chamber through a program of performances\, installations\, and\nworkshops. a grammar of attention is both an invitation and an offering: to bear and build\nwitness to that which is fraught\, incomplete\, unauthorized\, unsettled\, yet tethered to our present.\n \nThe featured artists include Zalika Azim; Fadl Fakhouri\, Noel Maghathe\, and Fargo Tbakhi; the black.gaze in collaboration with Cierra Michele Peters and Rai Terry; Haitham Haddad; Fatemeh Kazemi; Arnold J. Kemp; Christian Nyampeta; Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose; Rafael Sánchez; and Asia Stewart. \n a grammar of attention is curated by the 2024–25 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial\nFellows\, Bea Ortega Botas\, Kennedy Hollins Jones\, Tamara Khasanova\, and Ntshadi\nMofokeng. The exhibition will be on view May 9–18 at Ramscale Penthouse\, located at 463\nWest St Penthouse\, New York\, NY 10014. An opening reception for a grammar of attention will\nbe held at Ramscale Penthouse on Friday\, May 9\, from 6–8 pm. \nISP Studio Exhibition at Westbeth Gallery\, May 9–25\,\nThe Studio Program exhibition\, Prototype\, presents new work by the 2024–25 Elaine G.\nWeitzen Studio Program Fellows Nooshin Askari\, Paige K. Bradley\, Dahlia Bloomstone\, Cheeny\nCelebrado-Royer\, Rhea Dillon\, Niloufar Emamifar\, Valentina Jager\, Ash Moniz\, Daniel Melo\nMorales\, Iulia Nistor\, Pegah Pasalar\, Chantal Peñalosa Fong\, Alex Schmidt\, Julia Taszycka\, and\nmisra walker.\nCurated by Juana Berrío\, the exhibition will be on view May 9–25 at Westbeth\nGallery\, a nonprofit fine arts gallery located at 55 Bethune St\, New York\, New York 10014. An\nopening reception for Prototype will be held at Westbeth Gallery on Friday\, May 9\, from 6–8\npm.  \nSymposium at the Whitney on Sunday\, May 18. \nThe 2024–25 Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellows will present their current research at\nthe annual ISP Critical Studies Symposium on Sunday\, May 18\, from 2–5:30 pm in the\nMuseum’s third-floor theater. Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov\, Stephen Woo\, Sahar Khraibani\, Iulia\nNistor\, Stella Liantonio\, Joann Evans\, and Adrienne Jacobson Oliver will share short papers that\naddress critical topics in contemporary culture. The fellows will be joined in conversation by art\nhistorian Irene V. Small\, Associate Professor at Princeton University\, and artist and philosopher\nDenise Ferreira da Silva\, Professor at New York University. The symposium will be livestreamed\nwith live captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided. The event is free and registration is\nrequired. Following the symposium\, the ISP will host a closing reception beginning at 6:00 pm at\nRamscale Penthouse. While the reception is free and open to the public\, advance registration is\nrequired. \nThe Independent Study Program symposium\, exhibitions\, and opening events are free and\nopen to the public. The ISP Curatorial Studies Program and Studio Program exhibitions are\nopen Wednesday–Sunday\, 1–6 pm; closed Monday and Tuesday. For full details and additional\ninformation about the ISP\, please visit whitney.org/isp.  \nPRESS CONTACT  \nFor press materials and image requests\, please visit whitney.org/press or contact:\nAshley Reese\, Director of Communications\nWhitney Museum of American Art\n(212) 671-1846\nAshley_Reese@whitney.org\nWhitney Press Office\nwhitney.org/press\n(212) 570-3633\npressoffice@whitney.org   \nPROGRAM SUPPORT\nGenerous support for the Independent Study Program is provided by Joanne Leonhardt\nCassullo\, the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation\, the Helena Rubinstein Foundation\, and Diane\nand Robert Moss.\nSignificant support is provided by The Capital Group Charitable Foundation\, Margaret Morgan\nand Wesley Phoa\, Gloria H. Spivak\, and the Whitney Contemporaries through their annual Art\nParty benefit.  \nABOUT THE ISP\nThe Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program (ISP) is an experimental study community\ndedicated to fostering critical thinking\, cross-disciplinary scholarship and writing\, and multimedia\nartistic practices. The ISP cultivates a rigorous intellectual environment where participants are\nencouraged to engage deeply with contemporary issues through extended conversation and\ncollaboration. Through seminars\, reading groups\, workshops\, screenings\, performances\, poetry\nreadings\, studio visits\, and an array of collaborative endeavors\, the program nurtures and\nchallenges the creative processes of artists\, curators\, and scholars who are committed to\ninnovative\, sustainable\, and activist practices.\nEach year fifteen individuals are selected to participate in the Studio Program\, four in the\nCuratorial Program\, and six in the Critical Studies Program\, for a total cohort of twenty-five.\nCuratorial and critical studies participants are designated as Helena Rubinstein Fellows in\nrecognition of the substantial support provided to the program by the Helena Rubinstein\nFoundation and Studio participants are Weitzen Family Fellows in acknowledgment of the one-\ntime relocation stipend generously provided by the Weitzen family.  \nABOUT THE WHITNEY\nThe Whitney Museum of American Art\, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude\nVanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942)\, houses the foremost collection of American art from the\ntwentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney\, an early and ardent supporter of modern\nAmerican art\, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied\nwith the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art\, which has\nbeen championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the\nWhitney’s mission is to collect\, preserve\, interpret\, and exhibit American art of our time and\nserve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture\nin the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists\, the Whitney\nhas long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to\nhelp define what is innovative and influential in American art today.\nWhitney Museum Land Acknowledgment\nThe Whitney is located in Lenapehoking\, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name\nManhattan comes from their word Mannahatta\, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s\ncurrent site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan\n(“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original\ninhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today.  \nAs a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people\,\nthe Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and\nprogram. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the\nperspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To\nread more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgement\, visit the Museum’s website.  \nImage credit:\nDahlia Bloomstone\, R-SHARK WOKE UP!\, 2024\, courtesy of the artist URL:https://westbeth.org/event/whitney-museum-2025-independent-study-curatoral-program-exhibitions/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery\, Westbeth 13th Floor\, Whitney Museum\, CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Whitney-show-SQ-25_ISP_Poster_Letter_FINAL_0424-copy-e1752713778555.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR