She invigorated a staid if not stodgy arts scene as one of the city’s first and most prominent champions of the avant-garde.
Alice Denney, who invigorated the staid if not stodgy arts scene in Washington as one of the city’s first and most prominent champions of the avant-garde, died Nov. 20 at a hospital in the District. She was 101.The wife of a government lawyer, Mrs. Denney settled in Washington with her husband in the early 1950s and quickly emerged as a formidable presence in the cultural life of the capital.
Relying in large part on her personal charisma, Mrs. Denney set about opening galleries, organizing “happenings” and recruiting artists including In a similar vein, she orchestrated the NOW Festival in 1966, which brought Rauschenberg and Warhol, among other artists, and composer John Cage to Washington for a week-long artistic spectacle.
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