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Stanley Whitney on Finding His Way Through Erasure in the White Art World and Competition Among Black Artists
[…] Stanley Whitney, installation at Gagosian Rome. Photo: Matteo D’Eletto, M3 Studio. Courtesy Gagosian and the artist. You completed the college and in ’68 you last but not least went to New York, which was very diverse from now. The art bar scene was however alive. Yeah, there had been nevertheless the art bars. I was in Max’s Kansas Metropolis, Fanelli’s in ’68 there was still variety of a Bohemian art planet. Downtown was totally vacant. I experienced lived on Canal Avenue you could stroll Downtown all night with no a single on the avenue it’d be you and the rats. It’s unbelievable to see how speedily the town changed it was only 40 decades…
