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Whitney Museum Announces 2019 Biennial Participants, But One Artist Withdraws
Artist Michael Rakowitz withdrew his participation, opposing the “toxic philanthropy" of Whitney vice chairman Warren Kanders.
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W.A.G.E. Asks Artists to Demand Payment and Withhold Content from 2019 Whitney Biennial
In a letter sent this afternoon, the organization urged, "We invite you to use your exceptional status as a worker who can claim both the freedom to dissent and the right to be paid to withhold your labor in solidarity with Whitney staff who cannot."
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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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The Multifarious Feminism of the Whitney Biennial
Through its feminist contributions, the exhibition offers a window onto some of our most pressing cultural concerns, as well as our shortcomings.
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Occupy Museums Hosts a Faux Graduation Ceremony at the Whitney Museum
Last Friday, Occupy Museums held a "counter-commencement" at the Whitney Museum of American Art that called attention to student debt and “speculative investment in art and culture.”
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Artist Collective Postcommodity on Recovering Knowledge and Making Border Metaphors
With work on view in three current exhibitions, the members of Postcommodity discuss their desire to "mediate complexity."
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Three Lessons from Artists’ Protests of the Whitney Museum in the 1960s–70s
Activist efforts targeting the Whitney Museum of American Art across the 1960s and ’70s provide a starting point to consider the ways in which activists today can effect meaningful changes.
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The Possibilities and Failures of the Racial Imagination
Three writers consider the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till and the Whitney Museum’s public response to it.
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Surveying Landscapes for Clues to Political Violence
Two films made almost 50 years apart use silent shots of landscapes to examine the conditions that drove two young people to criminality.
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A Syllabus for Making Work About Race as a White Artist in America
This course offers a starting point: assignments for the white artist to understand their own racial position.
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Controversial Dana Schutz Painting Removed from Whitney Biennial Due to Water Leak [UPDATED]
Due to a "mechanical issue," Schutz's controversial painting and works by Maya Stovall and Julien Nguyen have been temporarily deinstalled.
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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.