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Interview

Why Liberate Tate Joined the #WhitneyPipeline Protests

I interviewed a member of Liberate Tate as to why the group decided to take part in the #WhitneyPipeline protests and what it has accomplished in its own struggle with the Tate.

News

Art Protest Groups Join Forces for Guerrilla Ribbon-cutting at New Whitney Museum

Last night, The Illuminator was in Manhattan's Meatpacking District to project mayday messages on the facade of the soon-to-be-opened Whitney Museum, while a group of two dozen protesters supported by 23 sponsoring organizations launched a guerrilla inauguration for the "fracked gas pipe museum."

News

Breaking Down the Demographics of the New Whitney Museum's Inaugural Exhibition

We took a look at the cultural and gender breakdowns of all the artists in the Whitney Museum's inaugural exhibition in its new building to assess how fresh these perspectives really are.

In Brief

As It Prepares to Relocate, Whitney Museum Expands Online Database from 700 to 21,000 Works

Projects like “Exhibition on the Screen” wed the democratization of art with the preservation of its sense of immediacy — and allow those who cannot afford to travel to cities like New York or London, much less live in them, to share in the arts.

Art

Saying Goodbye to the Old Whitney Museum with a Digital Drug Trip

Last night the Whitney Museum said goodbye to its Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue with a gala and party. There, the institution announced the opening date of its new home in the Meatpacking District — May 1, 2015 — and unveiled the last artwork commissioned for the Breuer building.

News

Downtown Manhattan Museum Migration Gathers Momentum

Collector and publisher Peter Brant — whose Brant Publications Inc. publishes Art in America, Interview, and Antiques — is joining the influx of museums to downtown Manhattan.

Art

Guarding Jeff Koons

"Is it about, that the guards matter? Or is it about the matter of the guards … And we thought it's basically about both those things."

News

Man Vandalizes Jeff Koons Retrospective [UPDATED]

A man briefly disrupted the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum this afternoon, splashing red paint against a wall and signing his name.

Art

Postscript to the Whitney Biennial: An Asian-American Perspective

Now that the Whitney Biennial is finally over, did anyone notice that Patty Chang, Nikki S. Lee, and Laurel Nakadate weren’t included, just to mention three mid-career, Asian-American women artists who were conspicuously absent?

Art

Have a Nice Day: Jeff Koons and the End of Art

Gleaming in the ghost-light of fluorescent tubes, the vitrine-encased vacuum cleaners that open the Whitney Museum’s Jeff Koons retrospective are nothing short of spectacular. The rest of the work, however, with few exceptions, reveals itself to be as thin, puerile and derivative as the artist’s har

Art

Material Boy: Jeff Koons at the Whitney

Given that he's a goliath figure in the art world whose output spans three decades, it may come as a surprise that Jeff Koons's Whitney retrospective is the artist’s first major solo show at a New York museum.

Art

Jeff Koons: The Early Reviews

"There is something nightmarish about Jeff Koons," Peter Schjeldahl began in his 2008 review of the artist's retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago for the New Yorker. This verdict had long arrived — it has always seemed that the critical wagons were circled on the subject of Koo