The Dahesh Museum used to be at this location...Not any more...replaced by Bonhams and Butterfields Auction house..Next date for a contemporary Art sale is November 11...
Lectures, Panels, and Dialogues ARTIST TALK | 6:30 pm Dana Schutz and Jeremy Sigler Artist Dana Schutz speaks with poet, sculptor, and critic Jeremy Sigler as they bring together their unique perspectives to consider Schutz's work of the last ten years found in the exhibition Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels . Sigler is Associate Editor of Parkett and has published five books of poetry, most recently, Crackpot Poet (Black Square Editions/Brooklyn Rail 2010). In his 2007 Brooklyn Rail review of her work, he compared the simultaneous brutality and resolve of many of Schutz's canvases to an array of his own emphatic art and pop culture references. Dana Schutz received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2000 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2002. She has had solo exhibitions at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; and Site Santa Fe...
All ramps and additional galleries of the museum are currently closed due to the installation of John Chamberlain:Choices , opening on February 24. The admission price is reduced at this time, and advance tickets are not available. GO read more
THE WHITNEY TO PRESENT SELECTION OF EARLY SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS BY OLDENBURG, FILMS OF HIS EARLY HAPPENINGS, AND A SERIES OF WORKS BY OLDENBURG AND VAN BRUGGEN Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room Opens May 7, 2009 Press Preview: Wednesday, May 6, 10am-noon NEW YORK, April 6, 2009 – This spring, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents a selection of early sculpture and drawings by Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), as well as films of the artist’s influential Happenings, together with The Music Room, a series of works that Oldenburg made with his wife and artistic collaborator Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009). The presentation opens on May 7, 2009, and runs through August in the second-floor Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York, NY 10021 whitney.org/press Tel. (212) 570-3633 Fax (212) 570-4169 pressoffice@whitney.org Press Release Contact: Whitney Museum of American Art S...
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