Art
Marking the Winter Solstice with a Shout at the Whitney Museum
Celebrate the winter solstice with Sibyl Kempson's rituals tuning in to the sun.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art
Laura Owens and the Death of the Auteur
Owens’s mid-career works feel completely sterile, mainstream, and middlebrow — with just enough insider info to flatter the viewer who knows something about Roland Barthes.
Interview
Anti-Gentrification Activists Protest Laura Owens Exhibition at the Whitney Museum
An alliance of activists from Los Angeles and New York highlighted the role of the artist and her dealer, Gavin Brown, in artwashing the gentrification of working-class neighborhoods.
Art
Watch Alexander Calder's Kinetic Sculptures in Rarely Activated Motion
Watch Alexander Calder's kinetic sculptures in rare activations through videos shared by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Art
Jill Magid Takes a Calder Mobile for a Spin at the Whitney Museum
Magid will activate one of Calder's standing mobile sculptures whose base and top were mismatched and separated in the 1960s.
Art
Arto Lindsay Explores the Brazilian Avant-Garde at the Whitney Museum
In conjunction with the Hélio Oiticica retrospective, Lindsay has organized a series of concerts and events that illuminate the enduring impact of this period in Brazilian art.
Art
A Dance Performance Commemorates the Americans with Disabilities Act
On July 28, the Heidi Latsky Dance, a modern dance company that includes people with disabilities, will perform along the High Line and at the Whitney Museum's outdoor galleries.
In Brief
Katy Perry Serves Up Bland Performance Art Prank at the Whitney Museum
The pop superstar’s half-baked viral stunt turned out flatter than a botched soufflé.
News
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.”
Art
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.
Interview
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.
Art
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.