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Edward Hopper, Self-portrait sketches 1900

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Nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small it takes time—we haven't time—and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O’Keeffe, born on this day in 1887

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A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

Mark Rothko, born on this day in 1903

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[David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), Untitled (Falling man and map of the U.S.A.), 1982. Screenprint: sheet, 23 15/16 x 17 7/8 in. (60.8 x 45.4 cm); image, 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (31.8 x 31.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Print Committee 2001.269. © The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York]

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Happy birthday to Whitney Collection artist Jenny Holzer! UNEX Sign #1 (Selections from the Survival Series) from 1983 is one of the artist’s earliest works to present her Truisms—one-line aphorisms written by Holzer—with LED technology, a state-of the art means of public communication for government and institutional agencies. At the time of its making, the piece’s 54 statements may have been mistaken for ads, instructions, or public announcements. In a media-saturated world in which news and ads flash by for passive viewers, Holzer uses this instrument of communication to call us to attention.

[UNEX Sign #1 (Selections from the Survival Series) (1983) installed in the Whitney’s lobby, 2015. 📷 by Ron Amstuz]

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Happy birthday, Andy Warhol! The countdown begins for the artist's monumental retrospective, Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, opening November 12 at the Whitney. Visit whitney.org to purchase advanced tickets today!

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Happy Birthday, Hopper! The Whitney Collection is home to over 3,100 works by Edward Hopper, born on this day in 1882! Explore more of his works on whitney.org.

[Edward Hopper (1882–1967), Early Sunday Morning, 1930. Oil on canvas, 35 3/16 × 60 1/4 in. (89.4 × 153 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.426. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY]

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COMING SOON! Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 spans over sixty years of conceptual, video, and computational art.

[Nam Jun Paik (1932–2006), Fin de Siecle II, 1989. Video installation, 207 television sets with seven video channels, 168 x 480 x 60 in. (426.7 x 1219.2 x 152.4 cm). The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Laila and Thurston Twigg-Smith 93.129]