This yearโs show is the first since a tumultuous 2019 edition rocked by protests over former trustee Warren B. Kandersโs connections to tear gas manufacturing.
Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial Has Been Postponed to 2022
The next biennial, previously slated for the spring of 2021, has now been delayed by a year due to the pandemic.
David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards Will Curate the 2021 Whitney Biennial
Edwards and Breslin, two of the museumโs in-house curators, will curate the 80th edition of the biennial.
The Whitney Museum Launches Digital Resource for Past Biennials
The open archive provides public access to information about artists and their artworks dating back to the biennialโs first edition in 1932.
Whitney Museum Announces 2019 Biennial Participants, But One Artist Withdraws
Artist Michael Rakowitz withdrew his participation, opposing the โtoxic philanthropyโ of Whitney vice chairman Warren Kanders.
The Violence of the 2017 Whitney Biennial
One of the themes of this yearโs Whitney Biennial appears to be violence, and not every artist has the ability to transform it into a successful work of art.
An Omnivorous Tour of the 2017 Whitney Biennial
See highlights from the 2017 Whitney Biennial, which opens to the public later this week.
Put Texas Quail Rigs in the Whitney Biennial
There are no Texas quail rigs in the Whitney Biennial, but then again New York casts a long shadow of bullshit over American aesthetics, its credentialed scenesters busy strip-mining consumer culture to produce elaborate corporate pranks.
2014 Whitney Biennial to Feature 3 Curators on 3 Floors
In the New York Times, Carol Vogel reports on the future of the Whitney Biennial, that ever-controversial summary of American art. For the 2014 edition of the show, there are a few new surprises โ mainly, that the old, monolithic model of curating has been totally dismantled.
Poor Forrest, Dead and Gone
To walk into the artist Robert Goberโs installation of paintings, photographs and writings by Forrest Bess โ a visionary painter and self-described, self-surgically-altered โpseudo-hermaphroditeโ โ was to encounter art frontloaded with (as the reader put it) โcultural significance while also being visually intoxicating, or mesmerizing, you can choose a description.โ
Down and Out at 75th and Madison
I left the 2012 Whitney Biennial with a feeling of leadenness that no amount of free coffee (available at Mondayโs press preview, and many thanks for that) or Werner Herzogโs video ode to beauty (โHearsay of the Soul,โ 2012) could alleviate.
Sothebyโs Art Handlers & OWS Protest Whitney Biennial VIP Party
Tonightโs Whitney Biennial VIP Party brought together two sectors of the art world that continue to butt heads in this post-Occupy Wall Street world. Chic art world partygoers were lined up on Madison Avenue waiting to drink champagne at the Sothebyโs-sponsored Biennial, while a few dozen protesters and an inflatable cat were bringing attention to the museumโs association with the auction house that has locked out union art handlers since early August.