"Being from the city, I'm used to the billboards of Times Square. I've been around image-making so heavily, my sensibility is being surrounded by images, and then, yeah, growing up with the internet. I love the internet so much."
Samia Halaby, a Palestinian artist born in Jerusalem and raised in Lebanon who immigrated to the United States in the 1960s, and Taína Cruz, a young artist from Harlem and the Bronx who recently graduated from Yale, meet in Halaby's Tribeca studio. The two represent the oldest and youngest artists in the Whitney Museum's 2026 Biennial, a major contemporary American art survey. During their conversation, they explore themes including ancestry, propaganda, billboards, perspective, rejection, the internet, intuition, financial considerations, and sustaining artistic practice throughout one's lifetime. Cruz discusses her experience growing up surrounded by urban imagery and the internet, while Halaby brings decades of navigating and resisting art world structures.
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