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Hopper Horrors at the Whitney January 03, 2024
Hilton Kramer, who founded this magazine in 1982, was one of the great defenders of the art of Edward Hopper. He was especially concerned with the scandalous treatment given to Hopper by the Whitney Museum of American Art following the artist’s death...
Rear Window December 30, 2022
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) was the painter of small-town America. This we know. That his small town happened to be New York City, his home for nearly sixty years, we may not know. “Edward Hopper’s New York,” now on view at the Whitney Museum of Americ...
The Delight of Edward Hopper’s Solitude December 13, 2022
The nucleus of this moment of recovery might be located, however improbably, at the show of Edward Hopper’s paintings of New York, which opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in October and will persist until March 5th. The show fills an entir...
Hollow City November 04, 2022
At first, Edward Hopper’s New York, an exhibition at the Whitney Museum, a few blocks from where that restaurant once stood, seems like a straightforward case of grass-is-always-greener thinking. There’s more than a little in curator Kim Conaty’s com...
