Art
Best of 2015: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
Occasionally, we are forced to venture beyond Brooklyn to see art.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art
The Precarious Lives of Freelance Museum Educators
Museum educators are crucial to museums’ long-term public engagement, but these freelancers lack the job security of a full-time, salaried position.
Art
The Freelance Educators Who Teach Children to Love Museums
Museum education is a significant aspect of the way museums interface with their audiences, and freelance educators have made themselves crucial to the operation of many of New York’s main art institutions.
Art
An Early Thanksgiving: The Wagner Gift to the Whitney
Opening in the shadow of the Paris attacks, the exhibition Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner represents — as Adam Weinberg, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, said in his remarks at the press preview — “a celebration of what matters in life.”
Opinion
An Open Letter to Frank Stella on the Occasion of His Whitney Retrospective
Dear Frank Stella, Your object-paintings choke me.
Art
Something Worth Arguing About: Frank Stella Fills the Whitney
Frank Stella: A Retrospective, which opened yesterday at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is a brilliantly curated, blatantly overhung masterstroke of an exhibition that turns the artist’s weaknesses into strengths and his strengths into powerhouses.
Opinion
The Changing Façades of the Whitney Museum
New Yorkers caught a glimpse of a hidden, historic slice of the Whitney Museum last week when the original inscription of the institution surfaced for the first time in over 50 years.
News
The Unlikely Connection Between the Whitney Museum and Riot Gear
We all know it costs a lot of money to sit on the board of a major art museum, so naturally the question becomes: where does that money come from?
News
The Unlikely Connection Between the Whitney Museum and Riot Gear
We all know it costs a lot of money to sit on the board of a major art museum, so naturally the question becomes: where does that money come from?
Art
Listening Is the New Performing
The Whitney Museum of American Art made a particularly savvy choice by teaming up with Issue Project Room to present David Rosenboom’s Propositional Music, a three-day concert series spanning 50 years of his extraordinary compositions.
Interview
Finally, a Documentary About Eva Hesse's Life and Work
Eva Hesse's life story has all the requisite elements of a rousing documentary or tear-jerking biopic.
Art
The New Whitney Museum, a Machine for Looking at Art — and Being Seen Looking at Art
In 1977, Jean Baudrillard published his take on a shiny new art museum that had just opened in Paris.