"Transmissions" at the Whitney

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Alastair Macaulay reviews Nick Mauss' exhibition.

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The most pressing reason to see “Transmissions,” Nick Mauss’s exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is its generous array of sculpture, photographs and dance designs, almost all from a place and time — New York, between 1930 and ’60 — when the city was becoming the center of modernism in the arts. But the juxtapositions show that “Transmissions” is a work of creative imagination as much as revelation. You go to sample it as history; you absorb it as poetry.