Lyonel Feininger was the Zelig of early modernism. Born in Manhattan to a German-American father who fought in the American Civil War, Feininger was sent to study violin in Leipzig when he was 16 but enrolled in art school in Hamburg instead. After an enormously successful career as an illustrator and cartoonist—mostly in Europe but Read More
“It’s a great treat to be here with such a fine audience of art lovers and artists,” cooed Debbie Harry, surveying the crowd at the Whitney’s groundbreaking gala last week. “Downtown people, uptown people, all kinds of New Yorkers.”
When Blondie’s right, she’s right–many of the museum’s supporters, arrayed in front of her at tables Read More
It wasn’t all that long ago that Richard Prince was an artist respected by curators and a few collectors who was largely overlooked by the art market. (He was best known for his 1983 Spiritual America, an unauthorized “re-photograph” of an nude, underage Brooke Shields.) A serious mid-career show at the Whitney in 1992 was Read More
The Danny Meyer restaurant opening in the Whitney Museum next month now has a (preciously post-modern) name: “Untitled.”
Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group is re-imagining the former Sarabeth’s space as an all-day breakfast spot inspired, it says, by vintage Madison Avenue coffee shops. Chef Chris Bradley, late of Gramercy Tavern, will serve seasonal staples seven days Read More
When the news broke last month that the Whitney Museum had sold an octet of brownstones next to its Marcel Breuer home on the Upper West Side, it intensified rumors that the institution planned to someday fully abandon the neighborhood for the new museum it is building next to the High Line. Now that Read More
