Art
The Buried Artwork at the New Whitney Museum
While some 600 works in the Whitney Museum of American Art's collection bask in the light of the new building's wide windows and roomy galleries, one piece is hidden within the walls.
Whitney Museum of American Art
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The Triumph of Revisionism: The Whitney’s American Century
With America Is Hard to See, the exhibition inaugurating its luminous new Renzo Piano building, the Whitney has reclaimed its role among the city’s museums as the engine of the new.
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At the New Whitney Museum, America Is Actually Very Easy to See
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum of American Art, which opens to the public today, is predicated on the elusiveness of a cohesive and stable national identity in the United States.
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From Calder to Kruger, the New Whitney Museum's First Show
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.
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From the Couches to the Conservation Labs, the Whitney Museum's New Building
They say you don't realize what you were missing until you get it. Well, New York City was missing a building for showing modern and contemporary art.
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.
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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.
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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."