He was interested in a kind of realism, inseparable from the cold structures and isolated people that populate his compositions.
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Warren Kanders, Former Whitney Museum Vice Chair, Vows to Exit Tear Gas Trade
Kanders, who was ousted from the Whitney board last summer after months of protest, says he will sell certain divisions of Safariland.
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In IRS Complaint, Attorney Accuses Whitney Museum of “Smear Campaign” Against Warren Kanders
Neal Sher accuses the Whitney’s leadership of being complicit in “unlawful conduct, harassment, threats and intimidation” against Kanders. He was disbarred by the District of Columbia in 2003 but practices in New York after a period of disciplinary suspension.
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Projecting $7M in Losses in 2020, Whitney Museum Lays Off 76 Staffers
Director Adam Weinberg says many of those who were laid off “work in visitor-related roles and are no longer able to fulfill their duties now that the Museum is closed.”
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Reimagining Museum Design, With Education at the Forefront
It’s time to conceive of museums as social, educational centers with libraries, classrooms, gathering spaces where everyone — especially young people — love to hang out.
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Artists No Longer Request Their Work to be Withdrawn from Whitney Biennial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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How Do Artists Get Into the Whitney Biennial?
I made a spreadsheet to find out what the participants in the Whitney Biennial have in common.
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Probing the Proper Grounds for Criticism in the Wake of the 2019 Whitney Biennial
In the wake of numerous critiques regarding the lack of perceived “radicality” in the Whitney Biennial, a critic analyzes the implications of artist Simone Leigh’s response.
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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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Indigenous Womxn’s Collective Stages Protest Inside 2019 Whitney Biennial
“Indigenous people and other people of color are violently under attack by Warren Kanders’ manufactured weapons of terrorism,” the protesters said in a statement.
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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 Colors of the Sixties
Spilling Over: Painting in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum expands the common understanding of a pivot point in American art, while basking unapologetically in the pure pleasure of looking.
