"Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV and the Movies, " at the Whitney Museum of Art, is another effort, however sketchy, to complicate assumptions about the 1960s.

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Lauder has long been entwined with New York City's art institutions, serving as president and chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as various committees at the Met since the 1980s.

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In Tokyo, she became a contemporary art curator before leaving for New York to work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York featured an exhibit of quilts a few years ago.

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For example, the Whitney Museum of American Art received a 10% interest in a 1983 Willem de Kooning painting, "Untitled VII, " in 1984, with the remainder promised either before or upon the owner's death.

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Architect and academic Fritz Haeg, whose work has been exhibited at Tate Modern in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art, has written a book, "Edible Landscapes", in which he calls for our lawns to be replaced by beautiful spreads of fruit and vegetables.

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The curator is to be Christopher Eamon of New York's Whitney Museum, who with an art consultant, Thea Westreich, helped build the Kramlich collection.

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"No single event, before or since, has had such an influence on American art, " wrote the Whitney Museum director Lloyd Goodrich at the time of its 50th anniversary.

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