TRANSMISSIONS, an exhibition by Nick Mauss “exploring the relationship between modernist ballet and the avant-garde visual arts in New York from the 1930s through ’50s” is up at the Whitney through mid-May.*
Works by Mauss—as well as archival photographs, drawings, sculptures, paintings, film, and video—are supplemented by daily dance performances in conversation with the show’s display.
Through May 14.
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, New York City.
Top: Paul Cadmus, Reflections, 1944.
Above: George Platt Lynes, Tex Smutney, 1941.
Below: George Platt Lynes, Frederick Ashton with Maxwell Baird, Floyd Miller, and Billie Smith for Four Saints in Three Acts, 1934.
Image credit for Lynes photographs: George Platt Lynes Estate, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University.
