"The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000".WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). If you thought the Whitney bit off more than it could chew with Part I (1900-1950) of its encyclopedic en·cy·clo·pe·dic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an encyclopedia. 2. Embracing many subjects; comprehensive: "an ignorance almost as encyclopedic as his erudition" survey "The American Century," wait till you see Part II. Instead of cozily sized, determinedly modernist paintings selected by one curator, the second act, chosen by a squadron led by now former Whitneyite Lisa Phillips, includes everything from a barnful of canvases by the AbExers short-shrifted in Part I to the last word in installation. In this post-"triumph" segment the artwork is complemented with sites that explore "American cultural, social and political developments from 1950 through the 1990s." In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , fifty years of gargantuan art "contextualized" by the propinquity PROPINQUITY. Kindred; parentage. Vide. Affinity; Consanguinity; Next of kin. of toaster ovens and Simpsons reruns. Sept. 26, 1999-Feb. 13, 2000. |
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