CULTURE

Bill Eggleston’s Big Night

The eminent photographer William Eggleston celebrated his first major New York museum show since 1976 with an intimate dinner at the Whitney Museum of American Art last night. Looking dapper in a bright green bow...

by Julie L. Belcove

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The show itself is no less charming. Large but well edited, it hits all the high points of Eggleston’s career. One guest was overheard telling Hopper with ironic understatement, “There are some nice pictures here.”

Read the William Eggleston feature from our 2008 Art Issue here.

All photos by Steve Eichner.