Inspiration of the Day

John Baldessari, What This Painting Aims to Do (1967). Via Art Tattler

The Whitney Museum highlights the following pieces in the exhibition:
-Works by Carl Andre, including seminal typewriter drawings and poems of the early 1960s and the large-scale sculpture 28 Lead Rectangle (1968);
-Works by Richard Artschwager, including his monumental painting City of Man(1981), which spans almost fifteen feet;
-Works by John Baldessari, including What This Painting Aims to Do (1967), a prime example of his important early text paintings;
-Photographs by Peter Hujar from the 1970s and 80s, including iconic portraits of Andy Warhol, Diana Vreeland, Divine, Lola Pashalinski, Susan Sontag, and David Wojnarowicz;
-Works by Jasper Johns, including the first of the artist’s important Catenary paintings to enter the museum’s comprehensive holdings of his work;
-Two works by Willem de Kooning, a 1952 Woman drawing and a noteworthy 1987 painting, Untitled, which is the latest de Kooning canvas in the Whitney’s collection;
-Works by Agnes Martin, including important drawings from the 1960s and an early painting This Rain (c. 1960).
-A work by Glenn Ligon, who will be the subject of a Whitney retrospective opening on March 10, 2011;
-Works by Ed Ruscha, ranging in date from 1965 to 2002, among them two important canvases, Give Him Anything and He’ll Sign It (1965), one of his wry bird paintings, and Lion in Oil (2002), from the artist’s recent series of mountain paintings.