This week on the show we take our first foray into an incredibly important pillar of the long term care of art: how we document, catalog, and care for archives. Our guest Farris Wahbeh is the Benjamin and Irma Weiss Director of Research Resources at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Farris’ role is quite unique in the sense that he oversees and serves as a central hub for all of the various teams that manage information at the Whitney: the archives, library, collections documentation – it is a rather unique and interdisciplinary role for a museum. In our chat we’ll explore Farris’ decades of experience working in incredibly interesting art archives, and how the Whitney integrates archives and documentation into their care of their collection of over 800 highly complex time-based media artworks.
Links from the conversation with Farris
> The Whitney Museum of American Art: https://whitney.org
> David Tudor's archives at the Getty: https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/guides_bibliographies/david_tudor/index.html
> The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art: https://www.art.org/
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