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8/9/2003

Public Programs

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

September 2003

Looking Ahead: the new season of "Architecture Dialogues" invites artists and architects who explore the body in public space.

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See America through Global Eyes

Reading Group
Writing American Effects
Three Tuesdays: September 9, September 23, October 7
7 pm

As a historical backdrop to "The American Effect" exhibition, this reading group will study the many ways the United States has inspired, amused, and outraged the global community--particularly in Europe. Discuss three great books on three separate nights.

September 9: Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America" (1835)

September 23: Fanny Trollope, "Domestic Manners of the Americans" (1832)

October 7: Monique Truong, "The Book of Salt" (2003)

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Discover New Artists and New Curators

Initial Public Offerings (I.P.O.): New Artists, New Curators
Kambui Olujimi and Christopher Myers
Thursday, September 18
7 pm

Photographer and independent curator Kambui Olujimi and artist and award-winning children's book author Christopher Myers read from and discuss their shared interests--history, myth, and mythmaking--in their work.

"Initial Public Offerings (I.P.O.): New Artists, New Curators" features salon-style dialogues between some of the most exciting curators, artists, and writers working in New York today.

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Go Inside "Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue"

Lecture
Wednesday, September 24
7 pm

Toby Kamps, curator of the exhibition "Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue," discusses the sources and process behind Kelly's masterful "figure/ground" paintings. Kamps is the curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.

Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021
1 (800) WHITNEY
Transportation
Subway: 6 to 77th Street (walk two blocks west to Madison Avenue)
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4 to 75th Street

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