Tag: Edward Hopper

Nighthawks and Automats: The New York City of Edward Hopper

Post author By Greg Young
Post date February 3, 2023
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Within the New York City of Edward Hopper‘s imagination, the skyscrapers have vanished, the sidewalks are mysteriously wide and all the diners and Chop Suey restaurants are sparsely populated with well-dressed lonely people. In this art-filled episode of the Bowery Boys, Tom and Greg look at Hopper’s life, influence and specific fascination with the city,… Read More

Tags art, artists, automats, Edward Hopper, Greenwich Village, paintings, Robert Moses, Washington Square, Whitney Museum

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Art Insanity: The elegant audacity of the Armory Show of 1913, the daring exhibit that awed and outraged America

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date January 11, 2013
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The monster within the Armory’s ‘Chamber of Horrors’: Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Nude Descending A Staircase No. 2 PODCAST The Armory Show of 1913 was the mainstream debut of modernist art — both European and American — to New York City audiences. Galleries had previously devoted themselves to the great European masters, antiquity and American landscapes as… Read More

Tags 69th Regiment Armory, Alfred Stieglitz, Armory Show, Edward Hopper, Enrico Caruso, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pablo Picasso, theodore roosevelt