Exhibition
Cheryl Donegan: Scenes and Commercials
01/20/16-04/10/16
Tours · Exhibition-Related
New Perspectives Tour: Studio Legacy
Cheryl Donegan: Scenes + Commercials
Cover Image:
“Cheryl Donegan: Scenes + Commercials,” 2016. Exhibition view: New Museum. Photo: Maris Hutchinson / EPW Studio
Cheryl Donegan has described her 2000 video Whoa Whoa Studio (for Courbet) as a “capstone” work that examines questions of the indexical mark, the body, figuration, and the legacy of the readymade—themes that she has creatively engaged with throughout her twenty-year career. For this month’s New Perspectives tour, we will perform a close reading of Donegan’s representation of the studio space within this work, in relation to the Education and Public Engagement Department’s Spring 2016 R&D Season theme of LEGACY. We will also explore the video’s connection to Gustave Courbet’s 1855 work The Painter’s Studio: a real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral life.
New Perspectives tours are led by the New Museum Teaching Fellow, an emerging scholar in art history or a related field. The topics of the tours are based on the Fellow’s ongoing research and change monthly, engaging participants in uniquely focused examinations of selected objects and installations. To read descriptions of current and upcoming New Perspectives tours, please view the calendar. New Perspectives tours are free with Museum admission. Due to limited capacity, please preregister here.
New Museum Teaching Fellow Maggie Mustard is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where she is completing her dissertation on postwar Japanese photography.
Sponsors
The New Perspectives tour program and Teaching Fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
“Cheryl Donegan: Scenes + Commercials” is made possible by support provided by the Toby Devan Lewis Emerging Artists Exhibitions Fund.
Artist commissions at the New Museum are generously supported by the Neeson / Edlis Artist Commissions Fund. Artist residencies are made possible, in part, by Laurie Wolfert.
Further exhibition support is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
Special thanks to EAI.
