Art-world people love lobbing this low-hanging critical fruit at the exhibition. This year especially, the moniker is ill-fitting and glib.
Whitney Biennial
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It’s Bye Boomers, Hello Millennials at This Year’s Whitney Biennial
The 81st edition of the renowned exhibition is younger, more geographically diverse, and not so male anymore, Hyperallergic’s analysis shows.
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Can’t Make It to the Whitney Biennial? Stream These Films Online Instead
A partnership between the museum and Mubi will make a selection of films in this year’s biennial available to watch online from the US, UK, and Canada starting April 12.
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These Are the Artists in the 2024 Whitney Biennial
The 81st edition of the historically controversial show will open on March 20.
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Giving Voice to an Artist Silenced too Soon
A “show within a show” at the Whitney Biennial pays homage to the visual and literary art of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, whose life was cut short through an act of brutal violence.
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The Whitney Biennial Is Dangerously Quiet About US Imperialism
The absence of an explicit framing of American art, in all of its diversity, as a visual culture of empire distorts and hampers our ability to understand — and reimagine — our social world.
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Here Are the 63 Artists In This Year’s Whitney Biennial
This year’s show is the first since a tumultuous 2019 edition rocked by protests over former trustee Warren B. Kanders’s connections to tear gas manufacturing.
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The Whitney Biennial Has Been Postponed to 2022
The next biennial, previously slated for the spring of 2021, has now been delayed by a year due to the pandemic.
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David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards Will Curate the 2021 Whitney Biennial
Edwards and Breslin, two of the museum’s in-house curators, will curate the 80th edition of the biennial.
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The Whitney Museum Launches Digital Resource for Past Biennials
The open archive provides public access to information about artists and their artworks dating back to the biennial’s first edition in 1932.
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Whitney Museum Announces 2019 Biennial Participants, But One Artist Withdraws
Artist Michael Rakowitz withdrew his participation, opposing the “toxic philanthropy” of Whitney vice chairman Warren Kanders.
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The Violence of the 2017 Whitney Biennial
One of the themes of this year’s Whitney Biennial appears to be violence, and not every artist has the ability to transform it into a successful work of art.
