Hints and tips:
...To January 15, whitney.org...
...The fair returns to The Shed arts centre in Hudson Yards....
...A new version of this is being built in China, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Cheng Leng and Hudson Lockett report....
...To March 5, whitney.org...
...Schumer called it “one of the worst decisions that any governor on either side of the Hudson has made”....
...BS The Unseen Saul Leiter (Thames & Hudson, £35) When American artist and colour photography pioneer Saul Leiter died in 2013, a foundation was set up to catalogue his archive of 40,000 photographic slides...
...She was deeply engaged in the civic life of Washington, DC, and in 1972, she was the first African-American woman to exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art....
...The Whitney always has captivating 20th-century and contemporary American art on show....
...On Little Island, a whimsical new park floating atop the Hudson River at 14th Street, I’m one of the more than 400,000 people to visit since it opened in May....
...Smith was at the opposite pole of sensibility from Hudson Valley luminism....
...He advanced a pro-development agenda that, among other things, made possible the $25bn Hudson Yards development — with office towers, luxury condominiums and a shopping mall fit for Dubai — erected on the...
...MoMA and the Guggenheim, the Frick and the Whitney are “temporarily closed”, which feels like interminably shut....
...His parents bought the property in 1970 from an American socialite and racehorse owner called Liz Whitney Tippett. “She hosted Rock Hudson, Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Rooney here,” he says....
...Hudson Yards, the gigantic new Manhattan development, has been criticised as a ghetto for the one per cent....
...“This would be a drastic measure for India, it would put them in a terrible position,” said Rabeha Kamaluddin, a partner at the US law firm Dorsey & Whitney....
...His best building is arguably the Whitney Museum, now the Met Breuer, a rare building named after its architect....
...“The mortgage industry would welcome a liberalisation,” says Joseph Lynyak, partner at Dorsey & Whitney, a law firm....
...In 2015, the Whitney Museum of American Art relocated to new premises with almost 50,000 sq ft of gallery space on Gansevoort Street, just south of Chelsea....
...The Lenfest looks like an uptown outpost of the Whitney, a behemoth that blends industrial brawn with classical grace....
...The buildings around the High Line have begun to engage with watery views and Hudson Yards will release a vast swath of waterfront property on to the market....
...Breuer designed the Wassily chair and the former home of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, now the Met Breuer....
...The aircraft had accumulated about 48,000 flight hours and was powered by engines made by IAE, a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney of the US, Germany’s MTU and three Japanese companies....
...Hudson Clearwater, 447 Hudson Street (+1212-989 3255; www.hudsonclearwater.com). The Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street (+1212-570 3600; www.whitney.org)....
...It is no coincidence that the new Whitney is also close to Chelsea, home to the city’s thriving art scene....
...North is the Empire State Building; south, along the Hudson river, the Statue of Liberty appears in the distance....
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