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#WhitneyBiennial
2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing is here!
We spoke to Biennial curators Chrissie Isles and Meg Onli along with Whitney director Scott Rothkopf about the exhibition that Rothkopf calls, "a laboratory...a space for experimentation [and] for asking hard…
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Beyoncé is wearing a shirt with Andy Warhol’s “Skull” 1976 from Whitney Museum of American Art, they have exclusive archives of nearly 650 films produced by Andy Warhol.
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We're just 3 days away from the opening of Edward Hopper's New York!
This exhibition is the first to focus on Hopper's rich and sustained relationship with NYC, where he lived from 1908 to 1967.
Read more and reserve timed tickets now at .
#HopperNY
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Merry Christmas! Sending you not one, but three,
#EdwardHopper
Christmas cards from the collection.
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Current mood. Paul Sharits's October Anxiety (1981).
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In Edward Hopper's Drug Store (1927), an illuminated shop window beckons nighttime passersby. In typical Hopper fashion, the painting is void of people, but filled with markers of human presence.
Read about Hopper's use of the window in his works:
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Merry Christmas! Sending you not one, but three, Edward Hopper Christmas cards from the collection.
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Vincent Punch, one of the Whitney's longtime guards (for over 20 years!), has a knack for capturing spontaneous visual arrangements that take place every day in the galleries. We loved this recent snap of a visitor with Georgia O'Keeffe's Music, Pink and Blue No. 2 (1918).
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Pamela Colman Smith was the first to create images for every tarot card in the Minor Arcana. 🌞🗡🌹 Discover these colorfully illustrated cards, on view now at the Whitney, with curator Barbara Haskell.
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Hopper is coming soon! Edward Hopper's New York opens on October 19.
We are thrilled to present the first exhibition to explore Edward Hopper's life and work in New York.
Reserve advance tickets:
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Good morning! 🌞 It's a brand new day in a brand new year. Here's to 2024.
—
Roy Lichtenstein, Sunrise, 1965
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Happy Hopper-ween from the Whitney! 🎃
Maniac Pumpkins created this Jack-‘o-lantern masterpiece inspired by Edward Hopper’s Automat (1927), on view now at the Museum. Guests at last week’s festivities had the chance to see artwork in pumpkin form.
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What better way to usher in the
#spring
season than with
#AndyWarhol
's flower silkscreens from 1970?
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Edward Hopper was a lover of theater, as evidenced by the numerous ticket stubs he and his wife Jo methodically kept. 🎟
Fittingly, the theater was also a favorite subject for Hopper. He set several of his compositions within theater interiors, focusing on quiet moments.
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Artist Dyani White Hawk draws from generations of Lakota artists and traditions to create her massive 14-foot-long beaded abstract painting.
Full video:
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Using over 30 million tiny glass beads, this life-sized kitchen took Liza Lou 5 years to make, and it's on view at the Whitney for just a few more days.
See this fan-favorite sculpture in Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 through this Sunday, February 20.
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Happy birthday to our founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who was born on this day in 1875. A professional sculptor, preeminent patron, and collector, Mrs. Whitney was a passionate champion of American art and artists, leading her to establish the Museum 91 years ago.
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The artist behind the world's most famous tarot deck was almost lost in history. ✨🔮
In 1909 artist Pamela Colman Smith created the first tarot card deck to feature fully illustrated, symbolic images. The set of 78 cards is now on view at the Whitney.
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"Paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it—I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers."—Georgia O'Keeffe
Busy New Yorkers are invited to swing by to check out O'Keeffe's The White Calico Flower (1931), newly on view.
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NYC was the subject, setting, and inspiration for so many of
#EdwardHopper
's most celebrated artworks. Edward Hopper's New York will look at the artist's unique relationship to the city, he said, "I know best and like most."
#HopperNY
Get all the details:
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"Every time I think about color it’s a political statement."—Emma Amos, born
#onthisday
in 1937
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It's officially winter! Celebrate the first day of the new season with Rockwell Kent's The Trapper (1921), on view now in our collection galleries.
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Something new is on view! While the Museum was closed on Tuesday, the Whitney's art handling, exhibitions, and registration teams installed Lee Krasner's The Seasons (1957), a celebrated Abstract Expressionist painting from the collection.
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"Painting is about people who structure light. Bill de Kooning was a master at that."—Jack Whitten (pictured) on Willem de Kooning, who was born
#onthisday
in 1904.
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Artwork: Willem de Kooning, Door to the River, 1960. Photo: Filip Wolak
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Hopper is here. Experience NYC through Edward Hopper's POV at the Whitney through March 5.
Head to to reserved timed tickets to Edward Hopper’s New York.
#HopperNY
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New York City was home to Edward Hopper for six decades. Rediscover our beloved city from the iconic American artist's perspective in Edward Hopper's New York, on view through March 5.
Speakers: Whitney Director Adam Weinberg and Curator Kim Conaty
#HopperNY
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Sending you not one, but three, Edward Hopper Christmas cards from the collection. ❤️
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Last chance! Natalie Ball: bilwi naats Ga’niipci closes this coming Monday, February 19.
"My work always calls back to narrative, and my work always calls back to community, to ancestors, to right now, and identity," Ball told us.
More:
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"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way—things that I had no words for."—Georgia O'Keeffe
What better way to celebrate O'Keeffe's birthday today than with this rhythmic painting from 1918, Music, Pink and Blue No. 2.
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It's Edward Hopper's birthday! The beloved American artist was born on this day in 1882.
Although Hopper drew and painted numerous self-portraits in his early years as an artist, this is one of the few he completed during the mature phase of his career.
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Sunday in NYC (w/tix) or via
#FBlive
: Indigenous women share poems/stories/songs @ Words for Water.
#StandingRock
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Kiss me, stupid! Wishing everyone a happy New Year from the Whitney. ✨🎉
—
Joel Meyerowitz, New York City, 1965, 1965, printed 1999
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Today we're sharing Hollywood Africans (1983) by Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was born
#onthisday
in 1960.
Hollywood Africans is one of a series of Basquiat's paintings that feature images and texts relating to stereotypes of African Americans in the entertainment industry.
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Next Tuesday at 7 pm, step into Edward Hopper's New York with the organizers of the exhibition, Kim Conaty and Melinda Lang.
This edition of Ask A Curator will focus on how Hopper formed his unique vision of an iconic city. Join us for free on Zoom:
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When the
@HomeDepot
employee tells you that they are sold out of all the 12-foot skeletons.
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In this work and others from the late 1940s and 1950s,
#EdwardHopper
returned to the motif of the woman by the window. When preparing, Hopper sketched his 68-year-old wife Jo in slightly varying poses, ultimately transforming her into a younger version of herself.
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Ruth Asawa practiced drawing every day, referring to the act as her "greatest pleasure and the most difficult." 〰
Ruth Asawa Through Line—the first exhibition to explore Asawa's work through the lens of her lifelong drawing practice—is now open.
More:
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Happy birthday to our founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, born on this day in 1875. A professional sculptor, preeminent patron, and collector, Mrs. Whitney was a passionate champion of American art and artists, leading her to establish the Museum 92 years ago.
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What's your favorite Rothko color combination?
We're celebrating Mark Rothko's birthday today with one of our favorites from the Museum's collection—Four Darks in Red (1958).
Read more:
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Celebrate Edward Hopper's 140th birthday at the Whitney this Friday!
Enjoy "Hopper Day" surprises and themed specials at the Whitney Cafe and Studio Bar in honor of the beloved painter. Join us starting at 10:30 am, with Pay-What-You-Wish admission from 7 to 10 pm.
#HopperNY
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To everyone observing Yom Kippur beginning tonight, wishing you G'mar Chatimah Tovah.
For this day of solemn contemplation and reflection, we're sharing this meditative work by Mark Rothko.
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Don't worry, Edward Hopper's Early Sunday Morning hasn't gone far!
From the fifth floor up to the seventh, we're excited to share that the painting remains on view at the Museum after its feature in
#HopperNY
.
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Happy Birthday to Georgia O'Keeffe, who was born
#onthisday
in 1887. Today we're sharing Ladder to the Moon (1958) from the collection.
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We're celebrating
#MarkRothko
's birthday today with Four Darks in Red (1958) from the Whitney's collection.
What's your favorite Rothko color combination?
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Have you noticed the absence of glass in many of Edward Hopper's windowed compositions?
That's the case here in Tables For Ladies (1930), where Hopper eliminated any material evidence of glass to create a sense of immediacy between the viewer and the subject.
#HopperNY
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In honor of National Native American Heritage Month, today we're sharing Wendy Red Star's Peelatchixaaliash / Old Crow (Raven).
Through written notations, Red Star surfaces personal details about the individual, as well as information on Indigenous history, regalia, and customs.
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Good morning. 🌅 Start your day with Georgia O'Keeffe's Morning Sky (1916) from the collection.
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🕰️It's the final countdown! Edward Hopper's New York opens to the public next Wednesday, October 19.
Psst: Member Previews start today—join now for early access to this show and much more.
#HopperNY
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Today's gloomy NYC weather reminds us of this Cecil C. Bell work from the collection—Rainy Day, Lower Manhattan (1944). 🌧
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Soir Bleu (1914) is a vivid homage to the years
#EdwardHopper
spent in Paris. Hopper depicts an odd assortment of people gathered under a tent at the end of a party including a working-class man smoking a cigarette, a sex worker and a clown, and a bourgeois couple.
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"New York Movie is one of Hopper's most radical compositions. It's remarkable to have a painting where nearly down the middle is a wall that seems to almost slice the space in half."
Hear more from
#HopperNY
Curator Kim Conaty:
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Following the election, Annette Lemieux requested that Left Right Left Right (1995) be reinstalled upside down:
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From here on out, our days are only getting longer.
Celebrate the winter solstice today with Rockwell Kent's Moonlight, Winter (c. 1940) from the collection.
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Edward Hopper's New York is almost here! Opening October 19, this exhibition offers an unprecedented look at Hopper’s life and work in NYC.
Visit to read more and get excited for this monumental look at Hopper's life and work.
#HopperNY
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It's
#CyTwombly
's birthday! The artist was born
#onthisday
in 1928.
Twombly is best known for his scribbles and smudges like the ones here in Untitled (1964/84). The artist began this painting in 1964, returning to complete it twenty (!) years later.
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Celebrate
#Marisol
's birthday today with Women and Dog (1963–1964)—a beloved painting/collage/carving/assemblage from the collection.
Fun fact! These women are all self-portraits. A photograph of the artist herself is applied directly onto the face of one of the figures.
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Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 closes in less than one month on February 20! The exhibition looks at how visual artists have explored the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades. Tickets:
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Get into the groove with Georgia O'Keeffe's abstract painting Music, Pink and Blue No. 2 (1918) 🎶
This Whitney fan-favorite is on view now in At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism. Read more:
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Lee Krasner created her 17-foot-long painting The Seasons in her late husband Jackson Pollock's studio. Curatorial Assistant Roxanne Smith tells us about how this massive work came to be.
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Opening 1 week from today! At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism looks at the complexity of American art produced between 1900 and 1930.
On view May 7, 2022—January 2023. Read more:
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Happy Mother's Day from the Whitney! In celebration of mothers everywhere, we're sharing Betye Saar's collage Mother and Children in Blue (1998).
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Big news! The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation is gifting 400 works to the
#WhitneyCollection
! We're creating a hub for the exhibition and conservation of Lichtenstein's work—and the world's largest study collection of the artist. Read more via
@nytimesarts
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Jasper Johns's fascination with the concepts of the mirror and double, which inspired both the retrospective's title, Mind/Mirror, and its bipartite structure at
@philamuseum
and the Whitney. For today's
#MindMirrorMonday
we're spotlighting our Doubles and Reflections gallery.
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In celebration of the unofficial start of summer,
#EdwardHopper
's Second Story Sunlight.
#MemorialDayWeekend
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Who's watching the
#USOpen
this weekend? 🎾 We're celebrating the final days of the tournament with this Edward Hopper watercolor from the collection.
—
Edward Hopper, (Tennis Players) (detail), 1916–1920
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Activations of
#AlexanderCalder
works take place @ 12, 2, 4, 7:30, 8, & 9 pm.
#CalderHypermobility
[© Calder Fdn]
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We're thrilled to debut
@obia_thethird
's first solo museum exhibition in NY this fall! Learn more:
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After a tough winter, spring is finally here! We're welcoming the new season with this Georgia O'Keeffe painting from the collection, It Was Blue and Green (1960).
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Wishing a happy birthday to artist
#ShirinNeshat
today.
In Unveiling (1993), a self-portrait, the artist wears a chador—a type of veil worn by Iranian women while in a public space—and her face and chest are inscribed with lines of text by poet Forough Farrokhzad.
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You're invited to a free three-part virtual course in conjunction with our exhibition Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing.
The course dates are January 18, January 25, and February 1 at 6 pm. Read more and register:
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We're celebrating American photographer
#RobertMapplethorpe
, who was born
#onthisday
in 1946, with his Self Portrait (1980) from the collection.
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Happy
#LunarNewYear
! We're celebrating the Year of the Tiger with Katherine Schmidt's Tiger, Tiger (1933) from the collection. 🐅
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Yellow Pumpkin is back! 🟡⚫️
Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkin returns to Naoshima island after typhoon
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"To be a woman abstract artist in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s was a radical endeavor," writes Senior Curatorial Assistant Sarah Humphreville.
Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950 is on view through next Sunday, March 13. More:
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How well do you know New York City? Guess the spot depicted in this Edward Hopper painting—reply with your answer. ⬇️
We'll reveal the location later today along with a current-day photograph of that spot! 👀
#HopperWasHere
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Did you know that E.E. Cummings was passionate about both painting and poetry? He called them his "twin obsessions."
Interested in the parallels between color and music, Cummings used spiraling color planes to create visual equivalents of sound in works such as Noise Number 13.
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It's Cy Twombly's birthday! 〰 The abstract painter, sculptor, and photographer was born
#onthisday
in 1928.
Fun fact: The artist began this painting in 1964, returning to complete it 20 (!) years later.
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This brisk NYC winter day is the perfect occasion for
#EdwardHopper
's Manhattan Bridge from 1925–26.
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We're celebrating
#LeeKrasner
's birthday today with Still Life from our collection. The artist was 30 years old when she created this drawing in 1938.
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We're here to add some sunshine to your post-long weekend blues with Edward Hopper's Sunlight on Brownstones (1956).
There are just a few more days to see
#HopperNY
! Book your tickets now before the exhibition closes on March 5:
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Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing is now open!
Combining observation, memory, and improvisation, Packer's intimate renderings of friends and family along with her floral tableaux recast the traditional genres of portraiture and still life.
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Don't cry—it's Roy Lichtenstein's birthday! Here's to the beloved Pop artist today on his centennial.
We're thrilled to be presenting a retrospective of Lichtenstein's work opening in 2026. Stay tuned!
—
#RoyLichtenstein
, Crying Girl, 1963
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Charmion Von Wiegand, whose work is on view in Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950, was born
#onthisday
in 1896.
A journalist as well as visual artist, von Wiegand was instrumental to the acceptance and understanding of abstraction in the U.S. during that time.
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It's
#PiDay
, so we're legally obligated to share Wayne Thiebaud's Pie Counter from 1963. 🥧
"One makes a pie out of ordinary stuff, like raisins, squash or apples and gift wraps it, in a sense with a crust. It’s very magical, very special," the artist explained.
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Thanks to the members who joined us for preview days of Edward Hopper's New York! The exhibition opens to the public tomorrow, October 19. Learn more at .
#HopperNY
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Photos: @ haelinyart_, @ lliuart, @ schoelkopfgallery on Instagram
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In honor of
#EdwardHopper
's 140th birthday today, we want to know...What's your favorite Hopper artwork?
Quote tweet us with your fave from the collection—there are over 3,000(!) to choose from:
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The
#MetBreuer
opens today! Big congrats to our friends
@metmuseum
. Here's a look back to our opening there in 1966.
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Artist Richard Diebenkorn was born
#onthisday
100 years ago. We're joining
@Diebenkorn_fnd
and others in celebrating
#Diebenkorn100
with Ocean Park
#152
from the collection.
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Curator Kim Conaty tells us about how
#JasperJohns
created Skin with O'Hara Poem (1965) using oil on his own face and hands.
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, a joint retrospective at the Whitney and
@philamuseum
, is on view through February 13.
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