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The 93 works of sculpture and painting come from the permanent collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Most of them previously unshown in Europe, these works chart the development of American culture and art from the 1950s to the 1990s, with a clear focus on New York, the very hub of cultural and artistic life, the place where anything and everything could and can happen. The exhibition covers the wide diversity of works produced in this period, ranging from the realism of Edward Hopper to instinctive spontaneity of Jackson Pollock's action painting; from the geometrical precision of Frank Stella to the irreverent irony of such street artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and concluding with the digitally-transformed images of Tony Oursler. This is the first such overseas exhibition on this scale that the Museum has ever directly put together from its permanent collection.