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2017 Whitney Biennial

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Best of 2017: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic December 20, 2017December 21, 2017

It was a powder keg of a year in visual art, with strong, politically inflected, deeply personal, and wildly inventive exhibitions that touched on the classics, courted controversy, and yielded new favorites.

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The Multifarious Feminism of the Whitney Biennial

by Anne Swartz May 12, 2017May 16, 2017

Through its feminist contributions, the exhibition offers a window onto some of our most pressing cultural concerns, as well as our shortcomings.

Posted inNews

Occupy Museums Hosts a Faux Graduation Ceremony at the Whitney Museum

by Julie Schwietert Collazo May 8, 2017May 9, 2017

Last Friday, Occupy Museums held a “counter-commencement” at the Whitney Museum of American Art that called attention to student debt and “speculative investment in art and culture.”

Posted inArt

Artist Collective Postcommodity on Recovering Knowledge and Making Border Metaphors

by Risa Puleo May 4, 2017May 6, 2017

With work on view in three current exhibitions, the members of Postcommodity discuss their desire to “mediate complexity.”

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Three Lessons from Artists’ Protests of the Whitney Museum in the 1960s–70s

by Caroline Wallace April 27, 2017April 27, 2017

Activist efforts targeting the Whitney Museum of American Art across the 1960s and ’70s provide a starting point to consider the ways in which activists today can effect meaningful changes.

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The Possibilities and Failures of the Racial Imagination

Avatar photo by Chloë Bass, Seph Rodney and Jillian Steinhauer April 18, 2017

Three writers consider the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till and the Whitney Museum’s public response to it.

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Surveying Landscapes for Clues to Political Violence

by Mengna Da April 14, 2017

Two films made almost 50 years apart use silent shots of landscapes to examine the conditions that drove two young people to criminality.

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A Syllabus for Making Work About Race as a White Artist in America

by Ryan Wong April 6, 2017April 6, 2017

This course offers a starting point: assignments for the white artist to understand their own racial position.

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Controversial Dana Schutz Painting Removed from Whitney Biennial Due to Water Leak [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 3, 2017April 6, 2017

Due to a “mechanical issue,” Schutz’s controversial painting and works by Maya Stovall and Julien Nguyen have been temporarily deinstalled.

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The Whitney Biennial Reminds Us America Is Not Post-Race

by Naeem Mohaiemen March 31, 2017April 12, 2017

A slow reading of Ajay Kurian’s work is influenced by a desire to view, parse, and converse with more work by artists of color, and is one of many strategies needed to challenge a dominant, incomplete idea of “American” art.

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Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco March 27, 2017March 29, 2017

Presuming that calls for censorship and destruction constitute a legitimate response to perceived injustice leads us down a very dark path.

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Whoopi Weighs in on Emmett Till Painting as Schutz Storm Reaches Daytime TV

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 27, 2017March 28, 2017

The debate over “Open Casket,” Dana Schutz’s painting in the Whitney Biennial, was a topic of heated discussion last week during an episode of The View.

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