Alice Denney (born 1922 ) is a curator and arts administrator. To some, she is considered to be the grande dame of the Washington, D.C. avant-garde and the mentor to a number of Washington's artists and arts administrators. She was the first director of the Jefferson Place Gallery, intimately involved in the founding of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, and founder of the Washington Project for the Arts.
She helped with the exhibition "The Popular Image", which included Robert Rauschenberg's "Concerto #5", with the Judson Dance Theater.
She brought the exhibit "Punk Art", to the WPA, in 1978.
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“Glorious bouquets and storms of applause ... are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one’s own life.”
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