Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
What's scarier than a hairy, giggling artwork in an empty gallery? Probably a lot of things, but this is still pretty creepy.
Registrar Brenna Cothran lets us sneak a peek at how she uses a flashlight to examine Lynn Hershman Leeson's 'Giggling Machine, Self Portrait as Blonde' (1968), on view in Sixties Surreal.
Psst: Leeson will be delivering this year's Annenberg Lecture at the Whitney on November 5—don't miss it: whitney.org/events/annenberg-lecture-hershman-leeson
Learn more about 'Giggling Machine, Self Portrait as Blonde,' and other works in the Sixties Surreal exhibition here: whitney.org/exhibitions/sixties-surreal
Book tickets to visit: whitney.org/general-admission
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What's scarier than a hairy, giggling artwork in an empty gallery? Probably a lot of things, but this is still pretty creepy.
Registrar Brenna Cothran lets us sneak a peek at how she uses a flashlight to examine Lynn Hershman Leeson's 'Giggling Machine, Self Portrait as Blonde' (1968), on view in Sixties Surreal.
Psst: Leeson will be delivering this year's Annenberg Lecture at the Whitney on November 5—don't miss it: whitney.org/events/annenberg-lecture-hershman-leeson
Learn more about 'Giggling Machine, Self Portrait as Blonde,' and other works in the Sixties Surreal exhibition here: whitney.org/exhibitions/sixties-surreal
Book tickets to visit: whitney.org/general-admission
#whitneymuseum #lynnhershmanleeson #contemporaryart #multimediaart #spooky #spookyseason #registrar #behindthescenes #americanart #sixtiessurreal #1960s #surrealism #arthistory #currentexhibitions #exhibition
