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...says. Early on, Uglydolls appealed mostly to adults, but a younger crowd now accounts for an even share of the market. "There are 30-year-olds who buy the dolls because they look good on their modern sofa, there are 4-year-olds, and there are guys at the Whitney who put them in their office," says Horvath...
...CHET WHITNEY Sioux Falls...
...Whitney S. F. Baxter ’07, an economics concentrator, said he would have concentrated in sociology or psychology if he could have pursued a secondary field in economics...
...newest works of art, so if there is any institution likely to seek out unconventional architects, it's that one. All the same, who expected that Diller and Scofidio, well known as skeptics about the whole idea of museums, would end up designing one? When New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art gave them a big retrospective three years ago, they underlined their ambivalence about becoming insiders by having a little robot programmed to roll around for the duration of the show drilling holes in the gallery walls...
...time of the Whitney retrospective, Diller and Scofidio had already been at work for two years on the ICA project. So for all their ambivalence, they were plainly well on their way to making peace with the idea of museums--or at least the ones they could have a hand in shaping. Plus, they say, there had been a generational shift in the people who run the art world. "People were coming into institutions," explains Diller, "who were rethinking the contemporary museum." One of the people she's talking about would have to be Jill Medvedow, the cheerful locomotive...