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    The Whitney Biennial

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    The 2017 Whitney Biennial Meets Strong Sense of New Place The 2017 Whitney Biennial will feature well-established individuals and collectives focusing on emerging artists who bring influences, trends and potentials. The Audience will meet the biennial exhibition on March 17 in the museum’s new downtown building. The Whitney Museum of American Art is well-known for its new building and the biennial exhibition. The Whitney Biennial aims to provide a main stream and a history of modern and contemporary

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    The Whitney Museum of American Art has often been referred to a citadel of American Art, partially due to the museums façade, a striking granite building (Figure 1), designed by Bauhaus trained architect Marcel Breuer. The museum perpetuates this reference through its biennial review of contemporary American Art, which the Whitney has become most famous for. The biennial has become since its inception a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today. Since the Museum's opening in 1931

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    loved and always loved? Whitney Houston sings about how she “will always love you.” Whitney Houston’s music represents R and B that has its fair share of love songs. Love is the most important thing in order for relationships to survive. As shown in her music, Whitney Houston, and others in her music genre, have had love experiences that help them make music. Whitney Houston was born August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey. Whitney Houston lived in New Jersey as a child. Whitney dropped her first album

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    but Bonnie found this quite surprising. It was her aunt, Whitney Houston, the sister of her beloved mother. While Bonnie was face-timing her mother she asked her "Mom....Did you know that aunty is dating daddy?" Her mother instantly began to weep, and as her tears glistened on Bonnie’s I-pad, Bonnie began to feel a fire ignite in her heart. She decided to do it, she had to kill her father. She

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    Who is Whitney Houston? Whitney Houston was a top female artist with several number 1 singles. She became a pop sensation after her first album. Whitney was born in Newark, New Jersey. Her mother was a gospel singer in church and many other entertainment centers allowing Whitney to grow up singing with her mom. In 1985 her first album was released with her single “You Give Good Love.” It became the first female album on the charts. A year after her first album was released she won a grammy award

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    Brief Biography of Whitney Houston Whitney Houston had been an actress and a singer. She had been born August 9th, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey. Her family had already had a musical reputation as her mother was Cissy Houston and her cousin was Dionne Warwick. In 1978, she had sung with her mother as a backing vocalist in the song, ‘Every Woman’. From there she had also sung as a backing vocalist with many different artists. In 1985 she released her first album ‘Whitney Houston’ and it had become the

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    Whitney Houston was born on August 9, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, into a talented singing family. The youngest of three children, her mother, Cissy, was a successful backing singer. Whitney's singing career began in the local gospel choir but she quickly graduated to backing singing with the likes of Lou Rawls and Chaka Khan, when she also worked as a model. At the age of 18, Whitney was signed to record label Arista Records, with whom she produced the album, 'Whitney Houston' with 'Saving All My

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    Whitney Houston Background Whitney Elizabeth Houston, was a famous American singer, actress, producer and model. Born on August 9th of 1963 in Newark, New Jersey and sadly deceased on the 11th of February of year 2012 in a hotel in Beverly Hills, California. John Russel Houston an Army serviceman and entertainment executive was the father of Whitney and Cissy Houston a gospel and soul singer was her mother, Cissy was Whitney’s inspiration, role model, mentor, best friend, the most important person

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    Whitney White was a beautiful woman, only 30 years old, but she had received something she didn’t expect, a daughter. She now had to take care of the child all on her own, since the father had left her, but on July 6th, in the year of 1962, she decided all of that was going to change. She strutted along the Broadwalk, as her charming hazel, hair glistened in the cool wind. She was putting her sunglasses over her chocolate brown eyes when she spotted Chris Mustard, her jerk husband, out of the

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    Whitney Houston was born to a family that were singers. She was the youngest of three children and was related or friends with lots of talented singers, Aretha Franklin was her grandmother. She began singing in a choir at church and soon went on to become a background singer. When she was 18 she had her first record deal. With her second album she had to first album by a women to enter the number 1 charts. On July 18, 1992 she got married to the singer Bobby Brown. They had one child whom they named

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