Whitney Museum of American Art

Veracity

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson | Posted 05.05.2012

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A sense of humor is a good thing in life and in art, but with the advent of the internet, the proliferation of misinformation and the spreading of sometimes damaging untruths has become rampant, redundant and sometimes dangerous.

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To Give and Give Not

Daniel Grant | Posted 10.30.2011

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Breaking a promise -- or changing one's mind, whatever you want to call it -- to donate money or objects to a museum (or any other nonprofit institution) is rare, but it does happen, sometimes in spectacular fashion.

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Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of The World

Alexander Adler | Posted 09.17.2011

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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

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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

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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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What's Black and White and Tread All Over?

Gabrielle Selz | Posted 05.25.2011

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The title, Step in the Arena, referencing a song by the rap singer Gang Starr, is at once a call to arms and a warning to step into the arena -- where a black man's gift is merely flesh.

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BLOG WATCH > Tauba Auerbach's Psychedelic Marble Quarry On WhitneyOnSite

whitney.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the second part of Whitney on Site: New Commissions Downtown, artist Tauba Auerbach transformed the corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets in...

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Leonard A. Lauder Backs Whitney Museum Building Downtown

nytimes.com | CAROL VOGEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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After 25 years of false starts, the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art has taken a step that will redefine the 80-year-old institution. It vo...

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Whitney Museum Receives Major Artwork Gift From Emily Fisher Landau

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The Whitney Museum of American Art has received a major gift of more than 350 works of art from a longtime benefactor. The museum sa...

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NEW MUSEUM: Whitney Museum Opens Satellite Location Downtown

ArtCulture | June 24th, 2010 | Posted 05.25.2011

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The High Line is about to get a new neighbor. Nestled next to the southern entrance of the park at Gansevoort and Washington streets, the Whitney's Do...

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Whitney Museum's Downtown High Line Design By Renzo Piano

nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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As expansion efforts go, the Whitney Museum of American Art's record of futility is hard to match. Over 25 years it commissioned six expansion designs...

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Whitney Museum In Talks To Lease Marcel Breuer Building To Met

Art+Auction: In the Air | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the Whitney Museum of American Art's board of trustees meets next Tuesday to formally vote to approve its $680 million expansion into the Meatpac...

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Kathryn Bigelow's Life in Art

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

It's undeniably a great thing that a woman won for the first time, but probably more surprising that Bigelow made the transition from collaborating on art world films to directing in Hollywood.

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America at a Crossroads (Again): Bruce High Quality Foundation and the Whitney Biennial

David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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The best piece in this year's Whitney Biennial will knock you on your ass, and make you afraid to look in the mirror.

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Georgia O'Keeffe Arrives At The Whitney

The New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are two types of people Barbara Haskell hopes to surprise with the Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition opening on Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Whitney Mus...

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NYC's Whitney to Receive $131M Gift

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Cosmetics executive Leonard A. Lauder says he will give $131 million to the Whitney Museum of American Art, the largest donation in t...

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