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 Lauder Gives Whitney
 Museum $131M 

Massive donation requires Whitney to stay in landmark building

New York Times New York Times Mar 19, 08 11:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York's Whitney Museum announced yesterday that its chairman, the cosmetics executive Leonard Lauder, would donate $131 million to boost the institution's endowment. The gift is a transformational sum for the museum, which is devoted to American modern art, and one of the largest donations ever made to a museum endowment. But Lauder's gift has a catch, writes the New York Times : he's requiring the museum to halt plans to move out of its famous building on Madison Avenue. More »

More about:  art • Ronald Lauder • Whitney Museum • Leonard Lauder • Lauder family philanthropies

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Whitney Biennial: Recession Art

Survey of American art world strikes a modest note

New York Times New York Times Mar 7, 08 10:20 AM CST
(Newser) - This weekend sees the opening in New York of the Whitney Biennial, the always controversial survey of contemporary American art. The theme this time around is lowered expectations, writes Holland Cutter for the New York Times , and the result is a modest, low-key, sparsely populated affair. "A biennial for a recession-bound time? That’s one impression it gives," writes Cotter. More »

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Changes in Lauder Dynasty Hardly Cosmetic

Incoming prez and CEO-apparent is first from outside family

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Feb 27, 08 2:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Estée Lauder might be a massive, publicly owned company, but it’s also a family business, tightly controlled by the Lauder clan—until now. On Monday, it will welcome new president Fabrizio Freda, who will likely eventually replace CEO William Lauder—and become the first outsider to run the cosmetics giant. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the complicated family politics. More »

More about:  family • CEO • University of Pennsylvania • cosmetics • Proctor • Ronald Lauder • Whitney Museum • Leonard Lauder • Lauder family philanthropies • Estee Lauder

Kara Walker's Art Shocks, Awes

Exhibit at the Whitney has 'nightmarish quality'

Ebony Feb 3, 08 7:33 PM CST
(Newser) - American artist Kara Walker stirs up “a toxic stew of race, sex, power and history” with her work—now enjoying a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York—exploding antebellum stereotypes about black bodies, Rosalind Cumming-Yeates writes in Ebony . The youngest artist ever to receive a Macarthur “genius” grant (at 27), Walker uses the period technique of silhouettes to trace slavery’s horrors. More »

More about:  art • race relations • slavery • Whitney Museum • MacArthur genius

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