Ask a Curator: / Around Day’s End: Downtown New York, 1970–1986 Tues, Oct 6, 2020, 7 pm

Ask a Curator:
Around Day’s End: Downtown New York, 1970–1986

Tues, Oct 6, 2020
7 pm

A woman in a cap, bra, shorts, and knee-high platform boots leans back on the hood of a parked car. A nearby building's sign reads Pentecostal Alpha y Omega.
A woman in a cap, bra, shorts, and knee-high platform boots leans back on the hood of a parked car. A nearby building's sign reads Pentecostal Alpha y Omega.

Anton van Dalen, Street Woman on Car, 1977. Graphite pencil on paper, sheet (sight): 22 3/4 × 29 in. (57.8 × 73.7 cm) Image (sight): 22 3/4 × 29 in. (57.8 × 73.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee 2016.7. © Anton van Dalen

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Join us for an interactive conversation with Laura Phipps, curator of Around Day’s End: Downtown New York, 1970–1986, and David Breslin, DeMartini Family Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives. They will present a brief overview of the exhibition and then take questions from the audience. 


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