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Warren Kanders, Former Whitney Museum Vice Chair, Vows to Exit Tear Gas Trade

by Hakim Bishara June 9, 2020November 5, 2020

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

by Hakim Bishara May 18, 2020May 19, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia April 3, 2020April 6, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Hakan Topal December 18, 2019December 19, 2019

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Artists No Longer Request Their Work to be Withdrawn from Whitney Biennial

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jasmine Weber and Zachary Small July 25, 2019July 26, 2019

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?

by John Yau June 9, 2019December 18, 2019

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

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney June 7, 2019February 1, 2022

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

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jasmine Weber, Hakim Bishara and Hrag Vartanian May 18, 2019October 7, 2019

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

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber May 16, 2019May 16, 2019

“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

by Hakim Bishara April 13, 2019October 7, 2019

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

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli April 6, 2019December 27, 2019

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.

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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

Avatar photo by Ilana Novick April 6, 2019October 7, 2019

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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