The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Sixties Surreal, an ambitious, revisionist look at American art from 1958 to 1972 through the lens of the “surreal,” both inherited and reinvented. Encompassing the work of more than 100 artists, Sixties Surreal uncovers alternate histories and recontextualizes some of the decade’s best-known figures alongside those only recently rediscovered. Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, film, and assemblage, twenty percent of the works on view are drawn from the Whitney’s collection. One of Mike Henderson's experimental 16mm films, recently preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Dufus (1970), will be on view in the exhibition. At turns comical, incisive, freewheeling, and confounding, Henderson’s films disrupt categorization and trouble interpretation.
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