Whitney Museum of American Art

One of the most interesting American artists today, Zoe Leonard, was born in 1961 in Liberty (New York). Even though photography remains her primary medium, Leonard is best known for her complex series, installations, and site-specific interventions. At the turn of the 70s and 80s, the artist was among the leading figures of the New York's art scene, included in "Times Square Show" (1982), the show organized by the COLAB, and at the same time involved in feminist and LGTB movements. The following

Alphabet Fun in New York City “Hi!” Livi greeted with a smile and a wave of her hand. “I’m Livi and this is my sister Jojo.” She said, gesturing to her sister, who stood smiling beside her on the crowded sidewalk.”We’ll be your tour guides today.” Jojo said, while Livy added, “We love to travel and find things in each city that represent letters in the alphabet.” The two walked down the street, sky scrapers reaching up to the clouds on each side of them. “Today we are in New York City and you

In New York there was an art museum called The Whitney Museum of American Art they were the first ones to display Chucks works of art. From there Chuck had became more and more known because of his art works and other exhibits displaying his canvas’s. “Even during those recurring moments in the cycle of art world fashion when painting has been pronounced dead, the relevance of his work has remained evident. One of

its unlikely origins to a pair of Parisian Republicans. In 1865, political activist Edouard René Lefebvre de Laboulaye and sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi went to a dinner party and came away with the notion of building a monument honoring the American conception of political freedom, which they would then donate to the Land of Opportunity. Twenty-one years later, on 28 October 1886, the 151ft (45m) Liberty Enlightening the World, modeled on the Colossus of Rhodes, was finally unveiled in New York

the painting, but again views the beautiful young woman. The label continues to explain, “but Hopper transformed her, like the rest of the scene, according to his own internal vision rather than faithfully adhering to realistic detail.” (Whitney Museum of American Art) Although this painting is not truthfully how she looked this day, it is how Hopper views her, so is it really

Appreciation of art is like the appreciation of a novel. One may read a title of a novel and be amazed and curios but will never appreciate it fully if the novel is not read from cover to cover. For any piece of art, one needs to learn about the artist, the story behind the piece and the purpose of the piece. In addition to learning about the work, as a woman, I find myself leaning more towards the appreciation of the work of women artists who use their talent and skills to express themselves and/or

Martin Wong is an Asian-American modern artist that is known for his innovative painting through expressive paintings that explore the subject of sexuality, ethnic, and racial identities. He became famous in his contributions in the urban art expressionism. There is a sense of poetic depictions in his images that paved way for the widening of the development of twentieth century modern art. He is considered to be one of the pioneering artists that explore expressionism representing the urban life

40 years ago, when I looked at the swirling frosting on a shop counter, I couldn’t help but see gooey gobs of oil paint. Not long ago, the Whitney Museum in New York, looked a bit like a bakery window, and it was because of all the paintings that featured my unique menu of cakes and pies. I guess I could have picked anything really, but my heart was set out to paint cakes and pies. I really don’t know, I just painted these 8 or 10 pies on plates and thought, "well, no one can take me seriously now"

people he teamed up with Bill and Melinda Gates to boost Woodlawn High School in Chicago. He is a board member of the Whitney Museum and also serves in a similar capacity at Chicago University. He is also a Board of Director of ‘Chicago’s Public Education Fund’. More Philanthropy Griffins has also donated to other institutions in Chicago including The University of Chicago, The Art Institute, and Lurie Children Hospital. With his wife, in 2009, they started the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation

Stuart Davis: In Full Swing The National Gallery of Art recently acquired the Stuart Davis: In full Swing Exhibition from the busy Whitney Museum in New York. The exhibition progresses thoroughly from each room to the next dedicating each room to the artist’s own progression with his art throughout his life time. As you walk from room to room, you realized that Europe was not the area in which art moved from movement to movement and artist grew and changed. In USA, artist like Stuart Davis reacted