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The 99 Percent Arts

Robert Bettmann | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: The 99%, Americans for the Arts, Arts Advocacy, Whitney Museum, Occupy Arts, Occupy Movement, Whitney Biennial, Arts News

The arts are positively integrated into the Occupy Movement in several ways, but they are also a front on which activists are attacking the economic system.

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PHOTOS: Whitney Biennial Opening Party

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Video, Paul Dano, Whitney Biennial, NY Around Town, Amanda Hearst, Whitney Museum, New York Art, New York News

Art kids and fancy celebrities gathered on the Upper East Side on Wednesday evening for the 2012 Whitney Biennial Opening Party, where attendees parti...

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David Smith's Show at the Whitney

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Sarah Lawrence College, Art Students League, David Smith, Willem De Kooning, Whitney Museum, Hans Hoffmann, Bolton Landing, Arts News

Oh, was I ever looking forward to seeing David Smith's work at the Whitney! I actually loved his early work best. Some of his sculpture looked...

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Manhattan on My Mind

Edward Goldman | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Manhattan, Willem De Kooning, New York, Neue Galerie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Museums, Diego Rivera, Whitney Museum, New York Art, Arts News

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Museums for Tolerance

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Vija Clemmons, Glenn Ligon, David Hammons, Museums, Theaster Gates, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, Whitney Museum, Arts News

The idea that art can broaden awareness of and exposure to "other" cultures is particularly well expressed in Los Angeles right now.

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Culture And Colors: An Autumn Sojourn To New England's Small Museums

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 01.25.2012

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In between museums I stop along the way... Late fall in New England offers some interesting exhibits for the cultural traveler and the last gas...

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Geometry And Anarchy: David Smith At The Whitney

Alexander Adler | Posted 12.05.2011

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"David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy" clearly presented too good an opportunity for the Whitney to pass up. Curated by Carol S. Eliel for LACMA, the exhibi...

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Steve Mnuchin, Meet Rose Gudiel

Peter Dreier | Posted 12.03.2011

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Gudiel would like Mnuchin to visit her at her home, because his OneWest Bank is trying to evict her and her family. If Mnuchin won't come to visit Gudiel, she will visit him, and bring some of her neighbors and friends with her.

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Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of The World

Alexander Adler | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Arts News

As an active participant in Die Brücke as well as Die Blaue Reiter and a professor at the Bauhaus, Lyonel Feininger played a vital role in cultural history of the 20th century as a socio-cultural aggregator.

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Whitney Museum Starts Construction On Massive Downtown Home

Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Video, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Renzo Piano, New York Real Estate, Meatpacking District, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, NY Real Estate, Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum, New York News

After years of scrapped expansion plans, the demolition of an historic pumping station and veal warehouse, and most recently, a swanky celebrity gala-...

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Doodle 4 Google Contest Winner

South San Francisco, CA Patch | Sean Carlson | Email the Author | 12:56pm | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Whitney Museum of American Art, Google, Illustration, Logo Design, Art, New York, Matteo Lopez, Maria Jauregui-Lopez, Drawing, Design, Branding, Logos, Whitney Museum, Doodle 4 Google, Doodle, Arts News

He may not be in space yet, but New York City is a pretty good alternative. Seven-year-old Matteo Lopez of South San Francisco is spending the weekend...

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Met Museum To Take Over Whitney Museum's Space

AP | Posted 07.12.2011

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NEW YORK — New York's Whitney Museum of American Art plans to give up its Madison Avenue building to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But offici...

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PHOTOS: New York Gallery Week 2011 Is Upon Us!

Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Bowery, Upper East Side, Performances, Galleries, Kara Walker, Painting, Sean Landers, Nygw, Ashley Bickerton, Lower East Side, Film Screenings, Soho, Contemporary Art, Chelsea, New York Gallery Week, Donald Judd, Whitney Museum, Free Events, Arts News

Make sure to wear your most comfortable shoes because this year’s New York Gallery Week is a three-day event comprised of 60 galleries and not-for-p...

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Move Over Graceland! Memphis to Build William Eggleston Museum

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photos, Photography, Art, Photographers, Museums, Memphis, William Eggleston, Moma, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Arts News

"At this writing I have not yet visited Memphis, or northern Mississippi, and thus have no basis for judging how closely the photographs in this book ...

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What Were Your Favorites in 2010?

Artlog | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Nyc, Pipilotti Rist, Galleries, Ps1, Marina Abramovic, Slidepollajax, Artlog, Whitney, Nyc Art, Exhibitions, Moma, Best, Art Galleries, Art Exhibitions, Whitney Museum, New York News

To mark the end of 2010, we paused to consider what has been cool, interesting, and noteworthy in recent months. Remember, art is more fun when experienced with the ones you love.

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BLOG WATCH> New Work By Artist R.H. Quatyman At SFMOMA on Daily Serving

dailyserving.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the 1950s, San Francisco poet Jack Spicer wrote that he considered a collection of poems to be a community meant to "echo and re-echo against each ...

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Art in Anticipation: 11 Reasons to Look Forward to 2011

Rebecca Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Whether he's striking down the pope with a meteorite or restraining his dealer to a gallery wall with masking tape, Maurizio Cattelan does it with wit and panache. This promises to be an unprecedented and, likely, unorthodox installation.

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Whitney 'Downtown' Museum Plans Revealed (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post | Grace Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renzo Piano, NY Culture, Nyc Culture, New Whitney Museum, High Line, New York News, High Line Park, Whitney Museum, New York News

The Whitney Museum of American Art has revealed plans for its new downtown museum, set to break ground on May 24th, 2011. The 200,000-square-foot bui...

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Top Ten Best And Top Ten Worst Art Moments Of The Decade (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: MOCA Los Angeles, Best Art Moments, The Barnes Foundation, National Portrait Galley, Worst Art Moments, Marina Abramovic, Slidepollajax, Whitney Museum, Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery Protests, Arts News

As 2010 winds down and we begin looking forward to 2011, we thought to look back at the highest highs and the lowest lows of the past 10 years. Two es...

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A Short Jaunt Through the Whitney's Meat & Bone Collection

Spread ArtCulture | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: East Village, Kisa Lala, Peter Hujar, New York, Charles Ledray, Yves Klein, Paul Thek, Robert Wilson, Village People, Sperone Westwater Gallery, Whitney Museum, Human Bone, Arts News

Charles LeDray's works at the Whitney Museum are that of an obsessive-compulsive genius who has created a universe in the miniature.

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Edward Hopper And Friends At Whitney Museum

Yahoo! News | ANN LEVIN, for the Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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Almost Political By Accident: Artist Kara Walker

Robert Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kara Walker makes some of the most unsettling and thought-provoking art that you'll see anywhere these days. Her principal subject is power and its ab...

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Revisiting His Final, Unfinished Film On The Anniversary Of River Phoenix's Death

Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Lachman, River Phoenix, Slater Bradley, Whitney Museum, Dark Blood Film, Filmmakers, Dark Blood, River Phoenix Film, Film, Film by River Phoenix, Arts News

Seventeen years ago this week, on October 31st, 1993, River Phoenix died after overdosing on drugs at The Viper Room in L.A. At the time he was wor...

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Pink Socks & Patent Leather Shoes -- a Madison Avenue Art Walk

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta | Posted 05.25.2011

If the gracious and pricey Upper East Side is the Gold Coast of Manhattan, then Madison Avenue is the waterfront for art lovers.

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Paris Has Its Seine, Vienna Has Its Danube, London Has Its Thames and We (Lucky Us) Have Our L.A. River

Lisa Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Screw developers. I'm thinking about the L.A. river's ability to offer a haven for thoughtfulness and a deeper way of considering one's transitory time here on this planet.

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