Word: whitneys
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...founder of abstract expressionism honored at the Whitney...
Willem de Kooning will be 80 in April. To have reached such an age, still bravely painting, is to have outlived all one's enemies and most of one's friends; by now his reputation can hardly be diminished, which may be why the Whitney Museum has had no choice but to enlarge it a little more. If de Kooning is not quite an American Picasso, at least he has been in every art history book, and in the mind of every artist, for the past 30 years. His career started late-he did not even have...
...With these and other gaps, one gets a less than full picture of the artist at his best, up to his 60th year. By the time the show gets to Europe and other early works have dropped out, it will be patchier still; a pity, since the Whitney plainly wants the show to revise art history with a bang, installing de Kooning in Pollock's place as the central hero of abstract expressionism...
Seven of the nine honorees attended the ceremony. Absent was artist Georgia O'Keeffe, a painter whose works hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney museum, and more than 40 other museums...
...young men who like horses better than hogs were especially pleased by Three Little Pigs. The process that made the porkers pink was Technicolor and the two pleased young men were the cousins John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, who last week announced that they had bought a substantial share of Technicolor Motion Picture Corp...