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Seven Years After Jack Whitten’s Death, His Studio Remains Nearly Untouched

Cross Fitnesss7 months ago010 mins

FEW ARTISTS ARE as closely associated with Lower Manhattan as Jack Whitten, the subject of a major retrospective opening this month at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In 1962, as a student at Cooper Union, he became one of the first artists to settle below Canal Street, at an address on the corner of…

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Even Without Its Most Famous Son, Carter’s Hometown Remains a Destination

Cross Fitnesss9 months ago014 mins

Plains has no major hotel, a single small gas station and only a couple of restaurants, neither of which is usually open for dinner. Still, for the longest time, the tiny town had something that no other place in Georgia did: Jimmy Carter making it his home. Especially as Mr. Carter withdrew from public life,…