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American arts curator (1922–2023)
Alice Denney
Born (1922-11-08 ) November 8, 1922Died November 20, 2023(2023-11-20) (aged 101) Nationality American Occupation(s) Art
curator , arts administrator
Alice Denney (November 8, 1922 – November 20, 2023) was an American art curator and arts administrator. Denney has been considered to be an important figure of the Washington, D.C.
avant-garde arts and had been the mentor to a number of Washington D.C.'s artists.
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Life and career
Alice Denney was born on November 8, 1922.
[1] She was the first director of the
Jefferson Place Gallery .
[3] She was intimately involved in the founding of the
Washington Gallery of Modern Art (in 1961),
[4]
[5] and was the founder of the
Washington Project for the Arts (in 1975).
[6] Denny served as the assistant director of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art.
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Denney helped with the exhibition, The Popular Image (1963),
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[7] at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art which included
Robert Rauschenberg 's "Concerto #5", with the
Judson Dance Theater .
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[9] In 1978, she brought the exhibit Punk Art , to the Washington Project of the Arts.
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Denney died from a stroke on November 20, 2023, at the age of 101.
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References
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c Rosenberg, Susan (2016-11-01).
Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art . Wesleyan University Press. p. 54.
ISBN
978-0-8195-7663-7 .
^ Richard, Paul (1986-06-01).
"Shaking Up the Arts Scene" . Washington Post .
ISSN
0190-8286 . Retrieved 2021-08-31 .
^
"Archives Directory for the History of Collecting, Jefferson Place Gallery" . The Frick Collection .
Archived from the original on 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2021-08-31 .
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b John Anderson (2012-03-12).
"What Happened in Washington" . Washington City Paper . Retrieved 2021-08-31 .
^ Mccray, W. Patrick (2020-10-20).
Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture . MIT Press. p. 93.
ISBN
978-0-262-35950-4 .
^ Carrigan, Margaret (2015-12-17).
"A Washington, DC, Nonprofit Reflects on 40 Years of Championing Local Artists" . Hyperallergic .
Archived from the original on 2015-12-24. Retrieved 2021-08-31 . started in 1975 by art curator and activist Alice Denney
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"The Warholstars Timeline" . Warholstars.org .
Archived from the original on 2001-11-22. Retrieved 2021-08-31 .
^ Sally Banes (1993).
Democracy's body: Judson Dance Theater, 1962-1964 . Duke University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8223-1399-1 .
^ Hopps, Walter; Rauschenberg, Robert; Davidson, Susan; Brown, Trisha (1997).
Robert Rauschenberg, a Retrospective . Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Guggenheim Museum. p. 243.
ISBN
978-0-8109-6903-2 .
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"Punk Art Exhibition, III. Punk Years, 1976–79" . 98bowery.com .
Archived from the original on 2009-05-10. Retrieved 21 May 2018 .
^ Mattson, Kevin (2020).
We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America . Oxford University Press. p. 138.
ISBN
978-0-19-090823-2 .
^ Langer, Emily (29 November 2023).
"Alice Denney, Washington's impresario of the experimental, dies at 101" . The Washington Post . Retrieved 30 November 2023 .
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