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.
Whitney Biennial
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.
Opinion
Performance and Para-Fiction: Jennifer Kidwell on Playing Donelle Woolford
Donelle Woolford, the fictitious artist whose work has become a collaboration between Joe Scanlan, Abigail Ramsay, and me, has done an extraordinary thing. Her existence exhorts the public to rally and come to her defense, but has simultaneously exposed its inability to do so.
Art
Sources of Harm: Notes on the Alternative Artworld
Within and beyond the American artworld, the politics of race have assumed a central position this year with a degree of ugliness that feels particularly virulent.