Whitney Museum of American Art

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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.

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.

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

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.