Whitney Biennial

News

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.

Art

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.

Opinion

Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till

Presuming that calls for censorship and destruction constitute a legitimate response to perceived injustice leads us down a very dark path.

In Brief

Whoopi Weighs in on Emmett Till Painting as Schutz Storm Reaches Daytime TV

The debate over "Open Casket," Dana Schutz's painting in the Whitney Biennial, was a topic of heated discussion last week during an episode of The View.

Interview

“What Does It Mean to Be Black and Look at This?” A Scholar Reflects on the Dana Schutz Controversy

Christina Sharpe says the issue at the heart of the dispute over the Emmett Till painting is not representation so much as intimacy and our relationship to violence.

Art

The Greatest Biennial of All

The Whitney Houston Biennial is back, showing the work of 167 women artists.

Interview

A Moving Image Artist Finds Freedom After Abandoning the Film Industry

After her first feature screened at Sundance, Cauleen Smith lost patience with the film industry's conservatism and devoted herself to art; her work is currently in the Whitney Biennial and Migrating Forms at BAM.

News

In Fake Letter, “Dana Schutz” Demands Removal of Controversial Painting from Whitney Biennial

This morning, several outlets published an open letter purportedly written by artist Dana Schutz and demanding that her painting "Open Casket" be removed from the Whitney Biennial.

News

Protesters Block, Demand Removal of a Painting of Emmett Till at the Whitney Biennial

Artists are calling for the removal of Dana Schutz's painting "Open Casket" from the 2017 Whitney Biennial, while others want more drastic action.

Art

The Violence of the 2017 Whitney Biennial

One of the themes of this year's Whitney Biennial appears to be violence, and not every artist has the ability to transform it into a successful work of art.

Art

Painting on Message at the 2017 Whitney Biennial

This year, the Whitney Biennial includes plenty of painting. And — for the most part — the painting is on message. It’s eccentric figuration with political content.

Art

An Omnivorous Tour of the 2017 Whitney Biennial

See highlights from the 2017 Whitney Biennial, which opens to the public later this week.