Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly 37 years since Marsden Hartley died at the age of 66, and he has long since become a fixture in every history of U.S. art. But owing to a series of internecine disputes, it was only this year that New York City's Whitney Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago succeeded in assembling and documenting a definitive retrospective of his career. The show, after its opening at the Whitney, is now in Chicago, will move on to Fort Worth and finally to the University Art Museum in Berkeley. The accompanying catalogue by Barbara Haskell-the Whitney curator...
...graphite mixed with epoxy resin wrapped around molds like vinyl wallpaper and then baked under pressure in an oven the size of a boxcar. The unpainted fuselage looks like a black plastic drainpipe but it is as tough as titanium; only carbide-tipped drills can cut through it. Pratt & Whitney engines concealed in each side of the plane drive the distinctive 90-in. propeller sticking out of the back of the plane. Because it weighs only 3,850 Ibs., the plane uses one-fifth as much fuel as the current Lear jet, and cruises at 350 m.p.h...
...collection of models for metal outdoor sculpture Nevelson has done in just the past decade At the Wildenstein Gallery is a rich assemblage of wood constructions and collages. But in many ways the centerpiece of the Nevelson celebration is an exhibition called "Atmospheres and Environments" at the Whitney Museum...
...years later, Jordan was named executive director of the United Negro College Fund, and he moved to New York City; in his first twelve months the organization raised a record $8 million for its 36 member colleges. When Whitney Young Jr. drowned in Nigeria in 1971, Jordan succeeded him as head of the National Urban League. It had been founded in 1910 to help black migrants from the rural South find jobs, housing and education in Northern cities...
Boeing surely deserves credit for excellence in aircraft design, but don't forget the contribution made by the jet-engine companies, including Pratt & Whitney, General Electric and Rolls-Royce. The plane is designed around the engine. Recent advances in technology far surpass those of the airframe makers. The principal reason that Boeing and the other companies are venturing into new models is that these advances cut fuel costs while improving thrust and reliability...