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Robert Whitman (May 23, 1935 – January 19, 2024) was an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making.
Jan 20, 2024 · Robert Whitman, a pioneer of performance and multimedia art whose work tapped into primitive, nonverbal human ritual while also anticipating the fractured nature of 21st-century digital...
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Robert Whitman was a leading figure in New York’s Happenings movement from the late 1950s through the early 60s. A pioneer of performance art and multimedia installation, he co-founded Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a nonprofit organization dedicated to collaboration between artists and engineers.
Jan 24, 2024 · Multimedia and performance artist Robert Whitman, whose incendiary Happenings lit up the downtown New York art scene of the 1960s, died at his home in Warwick, New York, on January 19. He was eighty-eight. News of his death was announced by New York’s Pace Gallery, which had long represented him.
Jan 22, 2024 · Robert Whitman, a key figure in performance and multimedia art whose rose to fame in 1960s New York, has died at 88. Whitman died at his home in Warwick, New York, according to a...
Robert Whitman (May 23, 1935 – January 19, 2024) was an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making.
Jan 22, 2024 · Robert Whitman, who was at the centre of the New York ‘happenings’, has died. Living and working in milieu that included in the early 1960s Claes Oldenburg, Allan Kaprow, Jim Dine and Red Grooms, Whitman’s work mixed installation, performance and multimedia.
Jan 22, 2024 · Robert Whitman, who was among the group of artists that pioneered the Happenings of the late 1950s and early 60s, has died. He died on Friday (19 January) in his home in New York’s Hudson Valley,...
Jan 23, 2024 · Robert Whitman, a pioneering artist known for his contributions to performance and multimedia installation, has passed away at the age of 88. His death was confirmed by Pace Gallery, stating that he died on January 19. Born in 1935, Whitman pushed the boundaries of multimedia art.
