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Jun 14, 2005 · David Whitney, a respected curator and prominent collector of contemporary art who was Philip Johnson’s companion, acerbic alter ego and behind-the-scenes art adviser for more than forty years, died of lung and bone cancer on Sunday at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital, Randy Kennedy reports in the New York Times. He was sixty-six. Though probably best known in New York social circles as a legendary architect’s publicity-shy éminence grise, Whitney was a force of his own ...
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Nov 2, 2022 · PHILIP JOHNSON’S PARTNER, David Whitney, was an avid gardener. He would make these exuberant gardens throughout the Glass House grounds, until Johnson and Whitney recalibrated the landscape to fit a more austere, controlled aesthetic. That erasure of Whitney and his authorship on the land held the clues to what I could add to the site without departing too much from its history.
WHEN DAVID A. ROSS first arrived as director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1991, there was intense skepticism among art-world denizens. The museum’s board had said publicly it wanted a more scholarly balance after Tom Armstrong’s contentious reign, remembered as a lovefest of contemporary solo shows by the gallery establishment ...
NEW YORK: THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL. By Thomas McEvilley. AT LAST THERE’S A VOICE TO HEAR. For the first time, the curators of the painting and sculpture sections of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s last four biennial—Richard Armstrong, Richard Marshall, and Lisa Phillips (who had two collaborators in 1985 and since have done it alone ...
DAVID DEITCHER. By David Deitcher. SCANNING THE BOOK DISPLAY in the reading room at the Whitney Biennial, I was dismayed to come upon the pale-green and pink slip case of Wayne Koestenbaum’s The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, which I happened to be enjoying at home. Its presence on the Whitney’s hit list ...
DAVID A. ROSS. By Reena Jana. AS ABRUPTLY AS THE DEATH of a Silicon Valley dot-com, David A. Ross’s flashy three-year stint as director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art came to an end on August 16, when he unexpectedly resigned. The departure was so sudden that even Ross’s wife, speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle, called her ...
Jan 25, 2022 · The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has announced the artists who will be participating in the 2022 Whitney Biennial. Titled “Quiet as It’s Kept,” after a colloquialism inspired by novelist Toni Morrison, jazz drummer Max Roach, and artist David Hammons, all of whom have invoked it in their works, the event will feature the work ...
Sep 16, 2016 · The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced that David Breslin, currently the chief curator of the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, will join the institution as curator and director of the collection.
Oct 7, 2019 · The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York announced today that David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards will cocurate the eightieth edition of the Whitney Biennial, which will open in the spring of 2021. Breslin has served as curator and head of the Whitney’s collection since 2016 and was recently appointed the museum’s inaugural director of ...
