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Whitney Biennial curator Anthony Elms took on the nebulous meaning of "American art" most directly in his selections, but the results don't really say a lot about what it means to be American — at least not in a way that makes it distinct from Canadian, Australian, Argentinean, or some other nationa
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On the third floor, 2014 Whitney Biennial curator Stuart Comer professed to "provide a kaleidoscopic glimpse of this historic moment," emphasizing work that seemed in flux and in transition from one medium to another, one state to another, or even across borders and identities.
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The 2014 Whitney Biennial has many things: oversized ceramics, big abstract and figurative paintings, experimental jazz, videos of people having sex, and bead curtains. What it doesn’t have all that much of is politics.
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During the opening remarks for the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Chief Curator Donna de Salvo said that this year's exhibition was "one biennial with three distinct points of view," so we've decided to explore that diversity in perspectives with three separate photo essays of the Biennial — one per
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What is most important to us — as writers, thinkers, makers, and believers in the arts? What happens when the world we live in no longer feels like the one we knew? In a culture of disappointment, what do we need to continue making work? To continue believing in the work that we make?
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One of the reasons Hyde’s book is so loved, and why the Hopper exhibition is so relentlessly moving, is because they give cause for celebration; for honoring those protracted dialogues with our inner muses, when they are both abundant, generous and nourishing, and when they are truculent, belligeren
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When Robert Irwin abandoned his Venice beach studio in 1970 he did not know where he would go next.
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My family took a lot of trips when I was young, and often we didn’t arrive at our destination until long into the evening. I still recall the disorientation of awaking somewhere with no idea how we’d gotten there — the hotel felt unmoored from reality, as though we’d travelled to an entirely differe
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We’ve all heard the tales, dripping in posthumously-applied glamour, of New York City in the 1920s. These stories are usually set in smoky speakeasies with women donning flapper dresses and short bobs, saxophones smoothly slithering along a bar full of bootlegged liquor and men in fedoras and suits.
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PARIS — "What should a museum look like, a museum in Manhattan?" architect Marcel Breuer asked in explaining his design for the Whitney Museum of American Art. "Surely it should work, it should fulfill its requirements, but what is its relationship to the New York landscape? What does it express, wh
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The Whitney Museum is going back to basics, or at least that's what you might think with their new brand identity redesign that was unveiled today. Created by Amsterdam-based Experimental Jetset, the new logo is an acute replacement to the rectilinear typeface rolled out 13 years ago and designed by
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Years ago, Al Held invited me to his place in Boiceville, New York, to see two large paintings that he had all but completed. They were immense, brightly colored works in which geometric forms floated, weightless.