Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whitney, confused reflections on the body aesthetic...
...Focus on the Figure," a show of some 50 paintings that opened last month at the Whitney Museum in New York, is to put in perspective the developments in American figurative art over the past two decades. It begins with Pop art, with its images of commercial representation; it takes in artists like Alex Katz and Larry Rivers, makes a bow to de Kooning's women, and then sets up some large-scale American realist art from the '70s, contrasted with the perverse and gritty fantasies of Chicago School artists like Jim Nutt and Ed Paschke. From there...
...flickering retrospective for Nam June Paik at the Whitney...
...course, video has no monopoly on that; most art of any kind, in this overloaded art world, is clumsy, narcissistic and obscure. Still, even video does not have to be, and some of it is not. An indication of this may now be seen at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan through June 27. The Whitney has long been conscientious about video art, showing it in regular programs through the 1970s when other museums would hardly condescend to touch it. Now the Whitney becomes the first American museum to give a retrospective show to a video artist. He is Nam June...
Doubles--1 Cummings. Tamayo (P) d Evans Schulman, 6-0 6-1 2 Sheburne-Susan Whitney (P) d Pe-Kaufman, 6-1 7-5 3 Loonun-Tracy Kunchika (H) d Weinberg Amanda Carney...