Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Without adequate federal funding, we will have fewer rotating exhibits." --Jane Heffner, director of Development, Whitney Museum of American...
...finds matching grants for public television. It funds exhibits and theater productions, opera and ballet; it foots the bill for necessary but mundane chores which would never interest a private supporter, like the cataloguing of the Whitney's entire collection. It backs controversial exhibits which corporations hesitate to support. But most of all, a grant from the NEA legitimizes an organization in the eyes of corporate and private patrons. A theater company with a $100,000 federal grant usually finds private sector support much easier to come by. "The NEA has generated at least $5 for every federal dollar spent...
Among his best-known works are the UNESCO World Headquarters in Paris, the Whitney Museum in New York City, the headquarters of the federal departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development is Washington...
...turned their forging talents to toolmaking. In the 18th century, craftsmen gathered in the manufacturing hubs of England, France, Germany and Sweden to fashion tools that would enable machines to produce items like clocks and locks. The trade flourished most dramatically in America. In the early 1800s, Eli Whitney helped to pioneer mass production, using standardized, interchangeable parts at his Connecticut musket factory. By the early 1900s, the toolmaker's skills enabled machines to engrave the Lord's Prayer on a sliver of metal less than one-hundredth of an inch wide...
...These are, of course, the portraits by Chuck Close-familiar items in the art of the 1970s-now gathered in a retrospective of Close's work, which, after its debut last fall at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, opened last week at New York's Whitney Museum of American...