Interview
A New Online Project Rethinks How We Learn About Artists and Archive Their Life and Work
Now working at New York University, Glenn Wharton is responsible for the comprehensive David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base. Joan Jonas is next.
Whitney Museum of American Art
News
Protesters Stage Intervention at Whitney’s Wojnarowicz Exhibition to Highlight the Enduring HIV/AIDS Crisis
A dozen protesters gathered at the Whitney Museum of Art to condemn the institution's lack of modern context about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in relation to Wojnarowicz's artwork.
Art
A Torch Song for David Wojnarowicz, Who Powerfully Documented the AIDS Crisis
Wojnarowicz embraced an activist's approach to life and art by producing hundreds of artworks in a span of a decade, before succumbing to his own AIDS-related illness in 1992.
Art
Rituals of Liberation Intended to Unsettle at the Whitney Museum
Last night's performance at the Whitney Museum reminded the audience that they are all on unceded indigenous land, while exploring the implication of settler colonialism.
Art
Zoe Leonard Transcends Time at the Whitney Museum
A survey show at the Whitney Museum of American Art asserts ideas about the collapse of time in spaces natural and constructed.
Art
Why Most People Don't Get Grant Wood
This exhibition of work by Grant Wood at the Whitney Museum, offers an opportunity to reconsider a very unusual artist who has been pigeonholed as irretrievably conservative and sentimental.
Performance
An Exuberant Exhibition Embodies the History of American Modernist Ballet
Transmissions shows, deftly and in detail, that ballet is not the rigid art form that some envision it to be.
Interview
The Corniness and Complexity of Grant Wood
Steven Biel, who wrote a book about the ironic journey of "American Gothic," considers the Grant Wood retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Art
The Permanence of Toyin Ojih Odutola's Invented World
In Ojih Odutola's conception of the world, its inhabitants never fell — not from divine grace, not from political autonomy, and certainly not from self-regard.
Art
The Ebbs and Flows of Resistance in the Art World
After a moment of incredible unity around the #J20 Art Strike, the art community's protest movements have fragmented as the reality of everyday life under Trump has set in.
In Brief
Whitney Museum Launches Emoji Designed by Laura Owens
The new pack of 50 stickers is based on a series of ceramic sculptures Owens made based on the beloved facial icons.
Art
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.