Art
On the eve of the #J20 Art Strike and a solidarity event it's organizing at the Whitney Museum, the collective has released a statement outlining art's role in the fight against fascism in the US and around the world.
Art
1971: A Year in the Life of Color studies two exhibitions essential to the ongoing relationship between black American artists and modernism.
In Brief
“Left Right Left Right (1995), a piece by Annette Lemieux at the Whitney Museum that consists of 30 images of raised fists, has been turned upside-down at the artist's request.
Art
If Frank Stella’s ambition and insatiable visual voracity were exhilarating at first, the paintings’ often overbearing size and physicality also left the viewer, time and again, with the unsettling feeling of being wrestled to the ground.
Art
If measured as a flame to kindling, John D. Graham was arguably the most consequential figure in 20th-century American art.
Art
“We are frail flowers in the field,” wrote Danny Lyon, the politically active, compassionate photojournalist, after leaving New York for Bernalillo, New Mexico, in 1969.
Art
Thirty years is a long time to step away. Jill Kroesen was deeply enmeshed in the downtown performance scene of the 1970s before she disappeared.
Art
In her memoir, The Girl Who Fell to Earth (2012), Sophia Al-Maria, who was raised as a bicultural Muslim, says she feels like a “deep-sea diver, adjusting constantly to the pressures of […] two very different environments.”
Art
With the rise of artists desperate to align themselves with one compromised avant-garde tradition or another, it is useful to remember that Stuart Davis never fit in.
Art
Three circular pools are flourishing with aquatic plants on the fifth-floor terrace of the Whitney Museum of American Art, part of Virginia Overton's exhibition Sculpture Gardens.
Art
There is the artist’s artist, and there is June Leaf.
News
When Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney set up her sculpture studio in Greenwich Village's MacDougal Alley, one 1907 newspaper headline blared: "Daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Will Live in Dingy New York Alley."