Tag: Whitney
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The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial
As my friend Anthony Elms pointed out to me recently, the Whitney Biennial is a kind of neither-here-nor-there entity: too big for a tight thesis to be legible, too small to provide a true scope of what’s happening in the United States art world. (He should know: He curated a floor of the 2014 edition.) read more
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Whitney Biennial Sneak Peek
Daily Newsletter Impressions from the leading survey of American art, Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum shutters, arts leaders react to Mamdani’s pick for culture commissioner, and more. The Whitney Biennial, a leading survey of American art, opened to the press yesterday. This one is different: moody, contemplative, and with a proclivity for immersive experiences. We’re still read more
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Meet Maia Chao, the Art World Anthropologist Making Her Whitney Biennial Debut
Drawing from her background in anthropology, Maia Chao often approaches art with an observation, then a question: Where does the art in doctors’ offices come from? How do you make a living as an artist? Building on these inquiries, often through mimicry or replication, leads to works that can make the mundane feel absurd, beautiful, read more
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First Impressions From the 2026 Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial bills itself as the pulse-check of what American art looks like now. This year’s edition, curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, with Beatriz Cifuentes and Carina Martinez, consists of the work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives. It’s themeless, but spotlights ideas of “relationality,” including family, technology, and mythology. I appreciate read more
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Our Critics Are Split on the Weirdest Whitney Biennial in Recent Memory
The Whitney Biennial is both the most important recurring art exhibition in the US and, often, the most polarizing one. During a year when notions about what does and doesn’t constitute Americanness are the subject of everyday discourse, this survey of American art has now returned for its 82nd edition at the Whitney Museum in read more
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The 2026 Whitney Biennial Includes a Video Game Designed by Leo Castañeda You Can Play At Home
While the Whitney Biennial isn’t set to open its 2026 edition to the public until Sunday, anyone can get a sneak peek at one work in the show: Camoflux Recall Grotto. The work, a video game by Colombian artist Leo Castañeda, is available to play on the web from any computer. For the work, Castañeda read more
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Middle East museums brace for war; Whitney Biennial news
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. Good Morning! Museums across the Middle East are under threat amid bombing attacks. Seventy-five museum and biennial exhibitions to see this spring. Diya Vij has been selected to become commissioner of New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs. The Headlines LINE OF FIRE.As the death read more
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Whitney Biennial shifts to infrastructural interventions
This year’s Whitney Biennial spotlights “the greater United States”—a term from historian Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire. It describes not only the country’s 50 states but also its occupied countries, annexes, military bases, and territories. Strategically, Immerwahr argues, words like “colony” and “empire” have been evaded by officials since World War II—but that’s read more
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Gagosian Plans Lichtenstein ‘Brushstroke’ Show, Following Last Year’s $150 M. Auction Run and Ahead of Whitney Retrospective
This spring, Gagosian will open its 14th exhibition dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein. Titled “Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes,” the exhibition draws exclusively from the Lichtenstein family collection and will feature paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and works on paper from the 1970s and ’80s. Opening March 19 at the gallery’s 541 West 24th Street space, the show lands read more
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How to Get Into the Whitney Biennial
Daily Newsletter Queens Museum leader quits, Gabrielle Goliath sues, vintage gay porn as political art, and more. Let’s say you’re a US-based artist and you’re dreaming of one day being included in the Whitney Biennial, the pinnacle of market and institutional recognition. If you think the way to get there is simply a combination of read more
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