What not to miss at this year’s edition of America’s most important survey of contemporary art.
May 13, 2019
Deceptively Playful Portraits Mask Personal Traumas
At first glance, Susan Carr’s paintings and sculptures appear whimsical and carnivalesque, but grow frightening upon closer inspection.
Forensic Architecture’s Project at Whitney Biennial Reveals Museum Vice Chair’s Company May Be Complicit in War Crimes
The research group looks into the potential use of Sierra Bullets-manufactured bullets in Gaza, which prompted a response from the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.
The Rise of the Queer Press After Stonewall
Next week at the New York Public Library, founding members of the Gay Liberation Front will discuss the rise of the queer press in the 1960s and ’70s and how it continues to make an impact today.
A Choreographer’s Struggle to Restage Merce Cunningham
The documentary If the Dancer Dances follows the Stephen Petronio Company as they put their own spin on one of Cunningham’s most celebrated works.
The Vilcek Foundation Presents Ralston Crawford: Torn Signs
An inaugural exhibition at the new Vilcek Foundation headquarters features the later works of modernist artist, Ralston Crawford, through a variety of mediums. On view from May 13 to November 13.
Feeling Down? Here Are the Best Bob Ross Pep Talks
All 403 episodes of The Joy of Painting are on YouTube. Here are five of the most inspiring installments.
Plastic Capitalism Traces the Phenomenon of “Waste Art”
Plastics have drastically altered our society and environment. A new book by Amanda Boetzkes looks at the material as an artistic medium and eco-cultural signifier.
Walid Raad Uses Fact and Fiction to Tell a Powerful History of Beirut
Raad exposes the way in which our accepted notions of historicizing events are simultaneously fact and fiction.
How a 19th-Century Photographic Technique Erased a Māori Tradition
Michael Bradley revisits the wet plate photography technique that had removed Indigenous tattoo traditions from photographic records.