Activist organization Decolonize This Place believes “the museum can be made responsive to people rather than to the dictates of capital, that it can foster creativity and memory rather than functioning as a tool to launder the reputations of the ultra-wealthy.”
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Artists No Longer Request Their Work to be Withdrawn from Whitney Biennial
In the wake of Warren Kanders’s resignation from the board of trustees, the eight artists wrote to the museum curators permitting their work to remain in the galleries.
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After a Protest at the 2019 Whitney Biennial Opening, Activists March to Warren Kanders’s Townhouse
One protestor promised, “If you take peace from the people, we take peace from you.”
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An “Alternative Museum Guide” Explains the Kanders Controversy to Whitney Biennial Visitors
An altered replica of the Whitney Museum’s spring guide, released by the collective (D)IRT, was created in an effort to educate museum visitors about the Whitney’s relationship to gentrification, diversity, and controversies surrounding its board.
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Activist Arrested During Protest on Subway Ride to the Whitney Museum for Protest Against Warren Kanders [UPDATED]
The protesters occupied the C subway line from East New York to Chelsea, and were confronted with large police forces at the final stop. One protester was arrested.
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Student Organizations Occupy the Whitney’s Lobby to Demand the Ousting of Warren Kanders
The students drew parallels and connections between the museum’s board of trustee’s vice chair and other board members at their universities
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Almost 50 Whitney Biennal Artists Sign Letter Demanding Removal of Warren Kanders from Museum Board
Over 100 artists, including participants of the upcoming biennial, have added their signatures to an open letter released earlier this month calling for the removal of the weapons manufacturer as a vice chair.
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A Heated Fifth Week of Protest at the Whitney Museum Centers Palestinian Liberation
Protesters were challenged by disgruntled museumgoers, youth organizers performed a Dabka, and activists gave impassioned speeches about Whitney vice chair Warren Kanders’s association with Palestine through weapons companies.
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Decolonize This Place Holds a Pizza Party in the Whitney Museum
Two Sudanese students, along with an activist greatly involved in curtailing the gentrification of Brooklyn, offered impassioned teach-ins on their causes at the potluck.
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“The Institution Should Not Be Safe As Long As We Are Not Safe”: A Third Week of Protests at the Whitney
One activist called the protest an opportunity for museumgoers to consider “the role that our cultural institutions play in our everyday decisions and choices, and the effect that that has.”
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Over 120 Prominent Scholars and Critics Demand Removal of Whitney Museum Vice-Chair
In a public letter released today, a group of theorists, critics, and scholars joins activists and members of the Whitney staff in the demand to remove Warren B. Kanders from his position as vice-chairman of the museum’s board of trustees.
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The People’s Cultural Plan Supports 9 Weeks of Art and Action at the Whitney
Community control of cultural institutions, which would replace board members, could reshape cultural life in the United States.
