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Whitney Museum Workers Surprise 2022 Biennial Guests With Union Protest

by Jasmine Liu March 30, 2022March 30, 2022

Half of the museum’s workers earn less than $20 per hour, and many are temporary workers with no benefits.

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Roy Lichtenstein’s Manhattan Studio Gifted to Whitney Museum

by Jasmine Liu February 24, 2022February 25, 2022

The Pop artist’s Greenwich Village studio will host the museum’s Independent Study Program starting in 2023.

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Jennifer Packer Shows Us the Responsibility of Seeing

by Seph Rodney February 8, 2022February 15, 2022

Most everything in this show, is unsure, a maybe, might be there, might not be, could fulfill your hopes, might leave them by the side of the road.

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Here Are the 63 Artists In This Year’s Whitney Biennial

by Jasmine Liu January 25, 2022January 25, 2022

This year’s show is the first since a tumultuous 2019 edition rocked by protests over former trustee Warren B. Kanders’s connections to tear gas manufacturing.

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The Journey Behind Liza Lou’s Behemoth Beaded Kitchen

by Julie Schneider June 6, 2021June 7, 2021

Today, “Kitchen” and its themes of women’s work and thankless labor are as sharp and fresh as ever.

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The Financial Reasons for Abolishing Museum Boards

by Clark Filio June 6, 2021June 7, 2021

My investigation into the financial realities at the Whitney Museum following the controversial Tear Gas Biennial made me realize nonprofit endowments are not doing okay.

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Whitney Museum Voluntarily Recognizes Union

by Valentina Di Liscia June 1, 2021June 1, 2021

The museum has recognized the collective bargaining unit, bypassing the union election.

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Citing Job Insecurity, Whitney Museum Workers Are Unionizing

by Valentina Di Liscia May 18, 2021May 18, 2021

Since the start of the pandemic, the Whitney has laid off approximately 20% of its staff.

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Julie Mehretu Reminds Us That Borders Are Meant to Be Trespassed

by Daniella Brito May 3, 2021May 10, 2021

Mehretu’s remarkable mid-career survey blazes through the Whitney Museum of Art, illuminating over two decades of her extensive practice.

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Dave McKenzie Brings His Methodical Approach to the Whitney Museum’s Facade

by Dessane Lopez Cassell April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

Debuting May 1, McKenzie’s Disturbing the View takes its inspiration from New York’s “squeegee men.”

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The Living Legacy of the Kamoinge Workshop, a Force in Black Photography

by Rachell Morillo January 20, 2021January 19, 2021

The influential collective created a rigorous yet non-hierarchical sphere of influence, which challenges the very tidiness of retrospectives like Working Together.

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In a Whitney Museum Exhibition, Jewish Artists Go Unrecognized and Unexamined

by Jeffrey Shandler January 6, 2021January 5, 2021

It seems that, in reinscribing the Mexican muralists who were “written out” of American history, the curators of Vida Americana replaced one exclusion with another.

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