This Friday and Saturday, the Whitney Museum will host the Independent Study Program’s 50th Anniversary Symposium, with panels and talks featuring former students and visiting faculty.
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At the Whitney, a Fashion Exhibition Doubles as a Retail Store
Museum visitors may touch, try on, and purchase clothing and accessories designed specifically for the exhibit by fashion design duo Eckhaus Latta.
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ACT UP Returns to the Whitney Museum’s Wojnarowicz Retrospective, This Time as Guests
HIV/AIDS activists return to the New York museum, while the museum updated their wall placards to reflect the continuing crisis and the recent action.
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A New Online Project Rethinks How We Learn About Artists and Archive Their Life and Work
Now working at New York University, Glenn Wharton is responsible for the comprehensive David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base. Joan Jonas is next.
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Protesters Stage Intervention at Whitney’s Wojnarowicz Exhibition to Highlight the Enduring HIV/AIDS Crisis
A dozen protesters gathered at the Whitney Museum of Art to condemn the institution’s lack of modern context about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in relation to Wojnarowicz’s artwork.
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A Torch Song for David Wojnarowicz, Who Powerfully Documented the AIDS Crisis
Wojnarowicz embraced an activist’s approach to life and art by producing hundreds of artworks in a span of a decade, before succumbing to his own AIDS-related illness in 1992.
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Why Most People Don’t Get Grant Wood
This exhibition of work by Grant Wood at the Whitney Museum, offers an opportunity to reconsider a very unusual artist who has been pigeonholed as irretrievably conservative and sentimental.
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The Permanence of Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Invented World
In Ojih Odutola’s conception of the world, its inhabitants never fell — not from divine grace, not from political autonomy, and certainly not from self-regard.
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Best of 2017: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
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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Marking the Winter Solstice with a Shout at the Whitney Museum
Celebrate the winter solstice with Sibyl Kempson’s rituals tuning in to the sun.
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Laura Owens and the Death of the Auteur
Owens’s mid-career works feel completely sterile, mainstream, and middlebrow — with just enough insider info to flatter the viewer who knows something about Roland Barthes.
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The Whitney Biennial Reminds Us America Is Not Post-Race
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.