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Here's what sold at Art Basel 2024 in Basel Switzerland.

I was riding up the elevator in the Whitney Museum’s Marcel Breuer building in the spring of 1977, “minding my own business” as it were, and unaware of a forthcoming shock, when the large elevator doors opened. I was stunned and thrown backwards by a John Cage-type experience of nothing. At first, I timidly stood still, but then with the danger of a closing elevator door, I stepped out onto the fourth floor of the museum where I encountered Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977) by Robert Irwin.

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has named Kim Conaty chief curator.

The Whitney Museum of American Art is spotlighting the late art and technology innovator's prescient "AARON" series

Introducing Art in America's Spring 2024 Issue