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The “Ten Cents a Dance” title points to the world of the taxi-dance hall, where patrons bought individual dances, often for ten cents a song. American artist Reginald Marsh was especially drawn to New York’s crowded public entertainment scene in the 1930s during the Depression, and here he turns a commercial leisure space into a study of gender, labor, class, and performance. A horizontal nightclub scene opens like a stage. In the foreground, a line of women gathers along a bar or railing, their bodies angled toward one another in casual conversation and practiced display. They wear satin evening dresses in pale and vivid tones, hugging close to the body, with bare shoulders, fitted waists, and bright accessories. Their skin tones vary subtly within Marsh’s warm, theatrical palette. Hair is waved, curled, or pinned into glossy 1930s styles. One woman leans forward for maximum attention to her cleavage as others tilt their heads, glance sideways, or fix their attention on someone just beyond the picture space. Behind them, the room compresses into a dense social crush of figures, lights, and architectural fragments, making the atmosphere feel humid, noisy, and alert. These women are glamorous, but the painting is not a simple celebration. Their poise suggests professionalism more than pleasure. They are working, waiting, scanning, and negotiating. Marsh, born in Paris in 1898 to American artist parents and raised in the United States, built his career around the spectacle of modern urban life, often focusing on bodies in motion and crowds under pressure. In this painting, desire and exhaustion sit close together. The women’s elegance offers allure, yet the compressed setting hints at their economic precarity and the constant demand to be seen. The result is both seductive and unsettling for a portrait not of one heroine, but of a system in which femininity itself becomes part of the transaction.
“Ten Cents a Dance” by Reginald Marsh (American) - Tempera on composition board / 1933 - Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) #WomenInArt #ReginaldMarsh #Marsh #WhitneyMuseum #AmericanArt #SocialRealism #DanceHall #art #arttext #WomenAtWork #AmericanArtist #BlueskyArt #TheWhitney #1930sArt
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Photo by Matt Dutile for Frenchette
Down at the #WhitneyMuseum at the end of the High Line, Frenchette Café & Bakery is open to the public. Sampling their sophisticated pastries with coffee or tea can be a wonderful end to a tour or walk in the area. Try the gougères or variations on their much-praised croissant.
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Unlock 30 years of dance history with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dataset—2,200+ performances, 30,000+ archives spanning 1958–1989. Discover AAADT’s legacy! Free data download: https://myumi.ch/n1QEm #AAADT #UMich #artsresearch #NationalEndowmentfortheArts #nadacArtsData #WhitneyMuseum
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Unlock 30 years of dance history with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dataset—2,200+ performances, 30,000+ archives spanning 1958–1989. Discover AAADT’s legacy! Free data download: https://myumi.ch/n1QEm #AAADT #UMich #artsresearch #NationalEndowmentfortheArts #nadacArtsData #WhitneyMuseum
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Twenty four hours in #NewYorkCity
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At the Whitney, and all I can see is peepee.
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[Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (America), 1994 (96.74.1a-l) as installed in the stairway of the Whitney Museum of American Art. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. Photograph by Ronald Amstutz]
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Follow Alice down the rabbit hole is this most trippy of dance performances-- Read the review to find out why it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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NYC animator Marina Zurkov’s exhibit ‘Parting Worlds’ can be seen at the Whitney Museum on Floor 5 until Jan. 11th 2026.
Tickets are free Fridays 5-10pm.
The link for the event can be found in our bio!
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CLAIR OBSCUR
New York, 2025 (Christophe Rivière)
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Getting wired at the Whitney.
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At the Whitney Museum in New York City. It was described as a different POV of Michelangelo’s Adam.
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Celebrate a Century of Alexander Calder’s Iconic Circus at The Whitney Museum in October gothamtogo.com/celebrate-a-...
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Sneak Preview Whitney Museum Sixties Surreal Art Plus “Shifting Landscapes” Review Garden Glamour by Duchess Designs url:gardenglamour-duchessdesigns.com/blog/sneak-preview-of-th... #whitneymuseum #americanart #surrealart
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Happy 60th Birthday, Thelma Golden! 🥂
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"Sixties Surreal is an ambitious, scholarly reappraisal of American art from 1958 to 1972, encompassing the work of more than 100 artists" #WhitneyMuseum whitney.org/exhibitions/...
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Whitney Museum's "Sixties Surreal" opening celebrated 1960s art, showcasing Surrealism's dreamlike style reflecting diverse cultural shifts from civil rights to space exploration. With 100+ striking pieces, it honors boundary-breaking voices of the decade. #whitneymuseum #sixtiessurreal #surrealism
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SUBLIMINAL | SUBLIME
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Robert Irwin, Scrim veil, 2013
Whitney Museum of American Art
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#ArtJournal entry The amazing @alfonsoibato.com who’s been one of the few folks I’ve had the pleasure to get to know from #Bluesky
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Painted with love and respect in the style of the brilliant #AmySherald who’s exhibition #AmericanSublime I had to privilege of attending at #WhitneyMuseum
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Despite his now mythic status among American artists, he initially struggled to break through in the fine art world, supporting himself as an illustrator until his forties.
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Despite his now mythic status among American artists, he initially struggled to break through in the fine art world, supporting himself as an illustrator until his forties.
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Three woman stand looking at a massive picture of Chairman Mao.
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A visit to The Whitney and Little Island
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