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“What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.“—Louise Nevelson. See her drawings and prints in the exhibition, Louise Nevelson: The Face in the Moon, open today at the Whitney!
[Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), Untitled, 1928. Fabricated red chalk on paper: sheet, 17 5/8 × 13 3/8 in. (44.8 × 34 cm); mount: 19 9/16 × 15 ½ in. (49.7 × 39.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist 69.220. © 2018 Estate of Louise Nevelson/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
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As part of our ongoing celebration of Pride this month, we’re highlighting works from three Whitney Collection artists who have either identified with, or fought for, the LGBTQ community through their art. David Wojnarowicz refused a signature style, adopting a wide variety of techniques with an attitude of radical possibility. His work spans photography, painting, music, film, sculpture, writing, and activism. David Wojnarowicz: A History Keeps me Awake at Night opens at the Whitney July 13!
[David Wojnarowicz with Tom Warren, Self-Portrait of David Wojnarowicz, 1983–84. Acrylic and collaged paper on gelatin silver print, 60 × 40 in. (152.4 × 101.6 cm). Collection of Brooke Garber Neidich and Daniel Neidich]
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“Art is what you can get away with."—Andy Warhol.
Opening at the Whitney Museum this fall, Andy Warhol–From A to B and Back Again represents the first Warhol retrospective to be organized by a U.S. institution in over thirty years. Read more in The New York Times.
[Portrait of Andy Warhol at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971. Photo © Jack Mitchell]
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