![]() Whitney, always a controversial museum awkwardly balancingĪ historical view of American art with surveys of livingĪmerican artists, managed to alienate both the conservatives Was a professor of American literature, Max Anderson hadĪs much as dropped off the earth for 12 years, running University where his father, Quentin Anderson '35, Native, having been born and raised near Columbia "the biggest mouth in the world" for its ability toĬhew people up and spit them out. But after all, the Whitney is in New York,Ī city that architect Frank Lloyd Wright called, Talking about," said gallery owner Paula Cooper Roman art history, curators, collectors, and gallery Although Hilton Kramer, a conservativeĪrt critic and editor of The New Criterion, praisedĪnderson's scholarship in classical Greek and Of a museum." But the public proved a harder HUE AND CRY ANDERSON HOW TOWho understands how to maintain a dynamicīalance between the public and scholarly roles Has the proven ability to integrate the demands With the accolades and high praise that are toīe expected at these events, Lauder noted that "Max Next hire to be a "superman" a curator, administrator, and fundraiserĬombined "who can lead the museum and the staff and the trusteesįour months later, Lauder named Maxwell Anderson '77 to Leonard Lauder, told a New York Times reporter that he wanted his The chairman of the museum's board of trustees, Whitney Museum of American Art in March 1998, So what if the hiring of director MaxwellAnderson '77 created a buzz in the NewYork art world? The real question is: cana little-known classicist restore lustre to afading museum of contemporary art?ĭavid Ross resigned from his position as director of the ![]()
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