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The Whitney's Collection
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Modern
Venue: Whitney Museum of American Art
Cost: Adults: $15.00
Senior citizens: (62 and over): $10.00
Students with valid ID: $10
Members, New York City public high school students with valid student ID, and children under 12: Free
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In 1931, before the Whitney Museum of American Art opened to the public, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney made a gift that became the basis of the institution’s holdings of modern art. Her devotion to the work of living artists has defined how the Whitney has developed ever since.
Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Willem de Kooning, and Ed Ruscha are just a few of the American innovators on view in this presentation of works from the Whitney's collection. This exhibition highlights four broad themes that underscore the key developments of twentieth-century art in America: "Form Building, Form Breaking," "City and Machine," "The Figure and Its Realities," and "Mind, Body, Gesture." While these developments are grounded in historical periods, their qualities and ideas also overlap and connect, extending into the work of living artists who found new ways to apply them to creative expression.
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction
-- Arts - Painting, Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Whitney Museum of American Art
Cost: Adults: $15.00
Senior citizens: (62 and over): $10.00
Students with valid ID: $10
Members, New York City public high school students with valid student ID, and children under 12: Free
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Although Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) has long been celebrated as a central figure in twentieth-century art, the abstract works she created throughout her career have remained overlooked by critics and the public in favor of her representational subjects. In 1915, O'Keeffe leaped into abstraction with a group of charcoal drawings that were among the most radical creations produced in the United States at that time. In these and subsequent abstractions, O’Keeffe sought to transcribe her ineffable thoughts and emotions. While her output of abstract work declined after 1930, she returned to abstraction in the 1950s with a new vocabulary that provided a precedent for a younger generation of abstractionists. By devoting itself to this largely unexplored area of her work, Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction is an overdue acknowledgment of her place as one of America’s first abstract artists.
The exhibition includes more than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures by O'Keeffe as well as selected examples of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographic portrait series of O’Keeffe. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by the organizers, excerpts from the recently unsealed Stieglitz-O’Keeffe correspondence, and a contextual chronology of O'Keeffe's art and life.
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction travels to The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., February 6-May 9, 2010, and to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, May 28-September 10, 2010. The curatorial team, led by Whitney curator Barbara Haskell, includes Barbara Buhler Lynes, curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center; Bruce Robertson, professor of the history of art and architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Hutton Turner, professor and vice provost for the arts at the University of Virginia and guest curator at the Phillips Collection; and Sasha Nicholas, Whitney curatorial assistant.
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Steve Wolfe on Paper
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Drawing/Illustration
Venue: Whitney Museum of American Art
Cost: Adults: $15.00
Senior citizens: (62 and over): $10.00
Students with valid ID: $10
Members, New York City public high school students with valid student ID, and children under 12: Free
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For over two decades, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) has created objects and drawings of astounding craft and visual presence that investigate the intersections among material culture, intellectual history, and personal and collective memory. Working in the tradition of trompe l’oeil, his pieces often quite literally fool the eye on first inspection: tattered books, worn album covers, and vinyl records appear pristine but these are objects made from modeling paste, screenprints, drawings, and many other media, and they reproduce not just the thing but the individuality an object takes on as it is consumed by one or more individuals. Wolfe's objects are, in real life, ones that must be used and physically manipulated in some detailed way—books have every page turned, records every groove worn. The patina of time is thus inevitable and necessary, and leaves a record of the object’s meaning as it passes from the user's hand to mind. In essence, this is the subject of Wolfe’s work. Thus the tears, creases, and basic wear points to human contact rather that generic existence as a product become metaphors of enlightenment and culture.
Wolfe invests his creations with both personal history and personal touch: an almost erotic representation of the fact that one can fall in love with that which is ephemeral. Wolfe’s transformations of common objects require the viewer to re-think what they mean as such. Co-organized by Carter E. Foster, Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Franklin Sirmans, curator at The Menil Collection, this exhibition and accompanying catalogue will focus on the artist’s works on paper, some of which are purely drawn, but many of which combine aspects of drawing, painting, collage, and printmaking.
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Roni Horn aka Roni Horn
-- Arts - Postwar/Contemporary, Arts - Installation, Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Whitney Museum of American Art
Cost: Adults: $15.00
Senior citizens: (62 and over): $10.00
Students with valid ID: $10
Members, New York City public high school students with valid student ID, and children under 12: Free
Note: Friday's 6-9pm pay-what-you-wish admission!
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Central to the work of Roni Horn (b. 1955), one of the leading artists of her generation, is an exploration of identity and the issue of doubling as it relates to love, sex, and gender. Horn has been engaged equally in an investigation of landscape, primarily her creation of an Icelandic iconography. Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, a landmark exhibition co-organized by Tate Modern and the Whitney, is the most comprehensive presentation of Horn's work in the U.S. to date, highlighting Horn's innovations in multiple forms, including books, cast glass works, installations, sculpture, drawings, and photography. Horn's subtle explorations of the complex relationship between object and subject have expanded the vocabulary of every medium in which she works, resulting in a body of concentrated visual power and intellectual rigor. Roni Horn aka Roni Horn is comprised of approximately 60 works that vary in scale from small drawings to room-sized photographic installations to sculpture weighing several tons. The exhibition arrives at the Whitney following its presentation at Tate Modern. Working closely with Horn herself on the project are Tate Modern curator Mark Godfrey; Donna De Salvo, the Whitney's Chief Curator and Associate Director of Programs; and Carter Foster, the Whitney's drawings curator.
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