Stop Calling the Whitney Biennial “Safe”

Art-world people love lobbing this low-hanging critical fruit at the exhibition. This year especially, the moniker is ill-fitting and glib.

Stop Calling the Whitney Biennial “Safe”
Installation view of Diane Severin Nguyen's In Her Time (Iris’s Version) (2023–24) (photo Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic)