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How Hauser & Wirth Took Over N.Y.C.’s Museums This Spring

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[ad_1] Earlier this month the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrated the opening of an exhibition by the painter Amy Sherald — Michelle Obama’s official portraitist — with a champagne toast over lush arrangements of daffodils and yellow ranunculus. At the Museum of Modern Art, another recent blowout event honored an ambitious retrospective of the … Read more

Jazzed About Abstraction: Jack Whitten’s Show Is a Peak MoMA Moment

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[ad_1] “I’m a product of American Apartheid,” the artist Jack Whitten wrote, a blunt fact that led him to project, in his art, a very different reality, one of “infinite diversity in infinite combinations.” It was a vision that propelled and buoyed him through a nearly six-decade career. “This is why I get up in … Read more