Breakfast with the Director
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
8:30–10 am
José Clemente Orozco, Zapatistas, 1931. Oil on canvas, 45 × 55 in. (114.3 × 139.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York; given anonymously, 1937. © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City. Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, New York
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Floor 8, Tom and Diane Tuft Trustee Room
Fellow and Sponsor members
This edition of the semiannual breakfast features an engaging conversation between Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, and curator Barbara Haskell.
Since joining the Whitney’s staff in 1975, Haskell has shaped not only the Museum but also the broader field of American art. Her past Whitney exhibitions include the landmark surveys The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900–1950 (1999) and BLAM! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance, 1958–1964 (1984). She has also organized retrospectives and authored monographs on Grant Wood (2018), Stuart Davis (2016), Georgia O’Keeffe (2009), Agnes Martin (1992), and Marsden Hartley (1980), among many others. In 2003, she was awarded the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
Haskell’s upcoming exhibition, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945, explores the profound influence Mexican artists had on the direction of art in the United States.
Fellow and Sponsor members are invited to this event. The invitation is for two individuals per membership household. Registration instructions will be provided by email.
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