The audio tour for John Chamberlain: Choices shares perspectives on select key works from the exhibition.
www.guggenheim.org/chamberlain

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John Chamberlain's Involvement with Abstract Expressionism

Hear more about Willem de Kooning's "... Whose Name Was Writ in Water" (1975) from Paul Chan's "Sex, Water, Salvation, or What Is a Bather?" presentation, as part of “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection,” the first-ever artist-curated exhibition mounted at the Guggenheim.

Transcript
Narrator: Although often celebrated as an intuitive Action painter, Willem de Kooning distilled his painterly vocabulary from observable reality, including figures and landscapes. "… Whose Name Was Writ in Water," created after the artist moved from Manhattan to the countryside in East Hampton, New York, in search of greater peace and isolation, takes nature as its theme. One of de Kooning’s favorite subjects was water, and his broad, slippery impasto strokes, their frayed edges speckled with drips, convey its fluidity and breaking movement. The work’s title, taken from an epigraph on the tombstone of poet John Keats, offers a meditation on ephemerality and loss.

Artistic License

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Willem de Kooning, "... Whose Name Was Writ in Water," 1975

As part of the Guggenheim Museum’s Summer of Know series, artist Ad Minoliti and activist Adam Werner discussed social and artistic responsibility, and building community on digital platforms, with moderation by X Zhu-Nowell, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum.

Photo: Ed Marshall

Archivo de la Memoria Trans
https://archivodelamemoriatrans.tumblr.com/

Queer Ancestors Project
https://www.queerancestorsproject.org/

The Feminist School of Painting
http://fschool.kadist.org/

Cromoactivismo
https://www.facebook.com/Cromoactivismo-1430319627007557/

Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal Seguro y Gratuito
http://www.abortolegal.com.ar/

Summer of Know

Conversation: Ad Minoliti and Adam Werner (2019)

Listen to audio about exhibitions and artworks at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark building is home to a collection of modern and contemporary masterpieces.

Willem de Kooning, "... Whose Name Was Writ in Water," 1975

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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