Arts & Entertainment

RiverArts' Season Kicks Off with Exclusive Tour of the Whitney Museum

RiverArts members can participate on a tour of the Whitney Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 21.

Distinguished art curator Barbara Haskell will host an exclusive RiverArts "members' tour" of her exhibition: "Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World" at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan on Wednesday, September 21 at 1:30 p.m.

Haskell is an art historian, who has curated at the Whitney Museum of American Art since 1975.

She has previously worked at the San Francisco Museum of Art and Pasadena Museum. Among the exhibitions she has curated are The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-1950 (1999), and BLAM! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 (1984). In addition, Haskell has curated retrospectives and authored accompanying scholarly monographs on a range of early-20th-century and post-war American artists.

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So what's the Rivertowns connection?

Ardsley's Bettina Speyer said she and her mother met Haskell a few years ago "through some common friends" when Haskell was beginning to curate the Feininger show.

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"My mother also knew Mr. and Mrs. Feininger when she lived here in her 20s," Speyer said. "Both my mother and I helped Mrs. Haskell with the translation, respectively from German to English and French to English of letters between Mr. Feininger and intellectuals or friends of the time."

Through this connection, Speyer was able to arrange the exclusive tour of the exhibit with the curator herself.

Advance purchase of tickets is required; tickets cost $10 for RiverArts members, plus museum admission fee. Register for the event here.

Find out more about joining RiverArts here.

Read a review of the exhibit on New York Public Media's "Sunday Arts" page here. 


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