One Last Week to See “Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight” at the Whitney Museum

MEATPACKING DISTRICT, NY — The 101-year old artist Carmen Herrara finally has what the New York Times calls "the show the art world should have given her 40 or 50 years ago: a solo exhibition at a major museum in New York, where she has been living and working since 1954."

The show is "Carmen Herrara: Lines of Sight," and it's at the Whitney Museum of American Art through Jan 9.

Why has it taken so long for Herrara to get mainstream recognition? Perhaps it's because the Havanna-born artist has often been exhibited in smaller shows of "Cuban artists," even though she has not lived in Cuba since the 193os. Furthermore, Herrera told the Guardian that an art dealer once told her, "you can paint circles around the men artists that I have but I'm not going to give you a show because you're a woman."

Thankfully, that didn't stop the Whitney this time. "Carmen Herrara: Lines of Sight" features more than fifty works, many of which have never been displayed before in a museum.

The show is open through Jan 9 at the Whitney Museum, 99 Gansevoort St.

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