Word: whitneys
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...result, Yale--on the strength of 22 points from center Chris Dudley and guard Ken Wheeler--knocked off the Crimson, 106-95, before 1745 fans at Payne Whitney Gymnasium...
Elis, 106-95 at Payne Whitney...
With so many contenders for the title of Most Overrated Young American Artist, it is hard to award the palm. But one of the strongest candidates would certainly be David Salle, who at 34 is having what is called a "mid- career retrospective" of 42 enormous paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. After closing at the Whitney on March 29, the exhibition will travel through next January to museums in Los Angeles, Toronto and Chicago. As a sign of cultural inflation, it would be hard to beat...
...well. Its stress lies on connoisseurship and comparison, rather than on telling the whole story of 20th century art. The Met's modern collection is not equal to that task anyway. Apart from decorative arts and furniture, it consists of some 6,000 works and is smaller than the Whitney's; it hardly begins to compare in scope and depth with MOMA's 65,000 objects...
...given early in the century by Retailer George A. Hearn for acquiring contemporary American paintings, the Met did not have an active department of contemporary art until Henry Geldzahler joined it as / curator in 1967; and even then it was seldom in real competition with either MOMA or the Whitney...