{"id":5086,"date":"2015-05-17T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2015-05-17T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T17:45:11","slug":"the-new-whitney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/the-new-whitney\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Whitney"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Whitney.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Whitney Museum recently opened its new digs in Chelsea. My first (tiny) apartment in New York was in Chelsea (20th & 8th), of course, that was before Chelsea became an art center. I plan to pay my first visit this summer.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>

I read a slashing review, A Monument to Tastelessness<\/em>, <\/a>by THEODORE DALRYMPLE<\/a> in the City Journal. Dalrymple is a doctor and an author. I enjoyed his book about Africa, Zanzibar to Timbuktu<\/a>. <\/i>The review, subtitled The new Whitney Museum looks like a torture chamber, is scathing. He also excoriates Michael Kimmelman’s piece in the NY Times, A New Whitney<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>saying, “I have seldom read a piece of criticism in which the fundamental question was avoided in so pusillanimous a fashion.”<\/p>\n

As I have yet to visit the museum, I’ll withhold comment. Dalrymple is an incisive thinker. His experience as a doctor to the poorer classes in Africa and Europe infuse his writing with an interesting perspective, although his liberalism is old fashioned by today’s standards, That’s fine by me because so is mine.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>In the Studio Oct. 14 2012<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Here is a different review–a typical art world fawning-type review–of the new museum.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The new Whitney. The Whitney Museum recently opened its new digs in Chelsea. My first (tiny) apartment in New York was in Chelsea (20th & 8th), of course, that was before Chelsea became an art center. I plan to pay my first visit this summer. 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