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David Whitney (1939 – June 12, 2005) was an American art curator, collector, gallerist and critic. He led a very private life and was not well known outside the art world, even though he participated naked in the 1965 Claes Oldenburg happening Washes.
Jun 14, 2005 · David Whitney, a respected curator and prominent collector of contemporary art who was Philip Johnson's companion, acerbic alter ego and behind-the-scenes art adviser for more than 40 years, died...
Jun 12, 2005 · Although Philip Johnson’s biographer Franz Schulze referred to him as a “wife” and he identified himself as the homemaker, David Grainger Whitney was an accomplished curator and editor, an avid art collector and gardener, a loyal friend to many artists, an art adviser to New York’s powerful elite, and an advocate of contemporary art.
David Whitney is a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley who studies visual perception, attention, and visually guided action. He uses various methods, such as psychophysics, neuroimaging, and TMS, to explore the mechanisms of human vision and visuomotor behavior.
Jun 14, 2005 · David Whitney, a respected curator and prominent collector of contemporary art who was Philip Johnson’s companion, acerbic alter ego and behind-the-scenes art adviser for more than forty years, died of lung and bone cancer on Sunday at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital, Randy Kennedy reports in the New York Times.
Feb 13, 2015 · The legendary architect and his companion, the curator David Whitney, spent their weekends in the world’s most famous transparent box. Or did they? Philip Johnson, left, with his partner, the art...
Learn about David Whitney, a distinguished art collector and curator who championed works on paper by artists such as Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol. Explore his legacy and his bequest to the Menil Collection, a new venue for modern and contemporary drawings.
