“A pair of group exhibitions featuring the work of emerging artists will go on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the first half of 2016. These shows both examine off-kilter and stagey approaches to representation as a means of exploring pressing social issues. The first… Read More
“Over the past three decades, Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner have been very astute collectors of contemporary art. This exhibition presents a selection from their recent gifts of nearly five hundred fifty works by American artists to the Whitney Museum, and more than three hundred works by European… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Frank Stella: A Retrospective brings together the artist’s best-known works installed alongside lesser known examples to reveal the extraordinary scope and diversity of his nearly sixty-year career. Approximately 100 works, including icons of major museum and private collections, will be shown.… Read More
“Archibald Motley offers a fascinating glimpse into a modernity filtered through the colored lens and foci of a subjective African American urban perspective. Fusing psychology, a philosophy of race, upheavals of class demarcations, and unconventional optics, Motley’s art wedged itself between, on the one hand, a Jazz Age set… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “The Whitney Museum of American Art will open its new Renzo Piano designed home with an ambitious exhibition that reexamines the history of American art from 1900 to today. America Is Hard to See presents new perspectives on the Whitney’s collection, reflecting on art in the… Read More
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