May 2013
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As with a line, every story needs a beginning.
– Experimental Jetset Check back tomorrow to hear the full story.
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It would be much easier to present the history of art as a simplistic line—but...
– Donna De Salvo, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs Work is in progress at the Museum! More soon.
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A museum should never be finished, but boundless and ever in motion.
– Goethe Some big changes are afoot at the Whitney. Stay tuned!
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Art . . . should be something that liberates the...
—Keith Haring, born today in 1958. Haring’s Altar Piece (1990) is on view now in I, YOU, WE.
April 2013
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March 2013
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Tell Him I have eyes only for Heaven / as I look...
Jay DeFeo inscribed the back of her painting The Eyes with this stanza from a contemporaneous poem by Philip Lamantia. The artist used the first line as the full title of the work for several years before it became known simply as The Eyes.
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That which takes us by surprise—moments of happiness—that is inspiration.
– Agnes Martin, born on this day in 1912.
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