{"id":1115,"date":"2016-05-04T08:31:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2016-05-04T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T15:33:29","slug":"june-leaf-at-the-whitney-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/04\/june-leaf-at-the-whitney-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"June Leaf at the Whitney Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2016\/juneLeaf01.jpg\" alt=\"June Leaf\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I recently saw the exhibition of drawings and sculptures by June Leaf and felt a familiar throwback to work that I really enjoyed 20 years ago.  The drawings are fun and fantastic.  In an art world that tends to take itself much to seriously, June Leaf&#8217;s exhibition is a reminder that art may be inquisitive, fun and simple to execute.  There&#8217;s a sincerity in the work that I generally don&#8217;t find in Contemporary Art.  <a href=\"http:\/\/whitney.org\/Exhibitions\/JuneLeaf\" target=\"_blank\">The show is up until July 17 at the Whitney Museum.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2016\/juneLeaf02.jpg\" alt=\"June Leaf\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2016\/juneLeaf03.jpg\" alt=\"June Leaf\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2016\/juneLeaf04.jpg\" alt=\"June Leaf\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2016\/juneLeaf05.jpg\" alt=\"June Leaf\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2016\/juneLeaf06.jpg\" alt=\"June Leaf\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw the exhibition of drawings and sculptures by June Leaf and felt a familiar throwback to work that I really enjoyed 20 years ago. The drawings are fun and fantastic. In an art world that tends to take itself much to seriously, June Leaf&#8217;s exhibition is a reminder that art may be inquisitive, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[753,749,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-art","category-fine-art","category-fine_arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}