Old television with abstract blue light on screen and a large metal clamp resting on top.

Sculpture On view

Magnet TV

1965

Medium
Modified black-and-white television set and magnet
Dimensions
Overall: 38 3/4 × 19 1/4 × 24 1/2 in. (98.4 × 48.9 × 62.2 cm)
Accession number
86.60
Acquired
1986
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from Dieter Rosenkranz
Reproduction credit
© Nam June Paik Estate
Department
collection

About this work

Nam June Paik, Magnet TV, 1965. Modified black-and-white television set and magnet, overall: 38 3/4 × 19 1/4 × 24 1/2 in. (98.4 × 48.9 × 62.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Dieter Rosenkranz 86.60. © Nam June Paik Estate

Visual description

A 1960s television set with a horseshoe magnet on top, the image on screen warped into wispy, overlapping curves

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