Word: whitney
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...have an artist make a car and call it his work of art? In 1966 a California sculptor named Don Potts set out to do exactly that. The result of his six years of labor, entitled My First Car, is on view this week at New York's Whitney Museum. It is not a car, to be precise, but a set of four components - a wooden mockup chassis, a chassis with engine, and two bodies, one of metal, the other of stretched glider cloth - all of which could theoretically be fitted together...
...York Herald's founder, started the paper in 1887 as the Paris edition of the Herald. In 1935 it became the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, which it still strongly resembles in typography. After the parent paper died in 1966, Publisher John Hay Whitney took on the Post and Times as partners in the Paris survivor...
...rare solo concerts, in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, Jazz Pianist-Composer Duke Ellington received an even rarer compliment. Togo's Ambassador to the U.S. presented him with a block of his country's stamps honor ing four great composers. "Ah," said the delighted Ellington, "Debussy, Bach, Beethoven-and Duke...
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS. In its 43-year history, the Museum of Modern Art has mounted 1.000 one-artist exhibits. Only five were by women. At the Whitney, eight out of 129 one-artist shows in the last decade were by women, and at the Corcoran, there were four women out of 80. Of 52 such shows at the Los Angeles County Museum, none has been by a woman...
SURVEYS. The survey shows held by some museums are catalysts for new talent. At the 1969 Whitney Painting Annual, 6% of the artists were women. This year the figure rose to 24%. Last year's Corcoran Biennial had no women among 21 artists; the 1971 Young Los Angeles Artists show had three women...