How a resort art fair is reshaping a small island nation’s art world—and taking it global
...Liverpool Biennial, among others—had refused to participate. He felt conflicted about showing in a resort that symbolized the very tourism industry his work critiques. “For...
The curators shaping the future of archives: Drew Sawyer
...gearing up for the 2026 Whitney Biennial. In his practice, Sawyer treads a careful line between honoring the authenticity of an object, while finding its...
Vaginal Davis skypes with artist Bjarne Melgaard about toe sucking, Xerox parties, and her many personas
...notions of queerness and infiltrated galleries and museums with his unique visual assault. His work has appeared in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, recent solo shows...
Sarah Gavlak’s New Wave Art Wknd transforms West Palm Beach into an artistic haven
...to visit that friend, and I thought, Why isn’t anyone doing a contemporary art gallery here featuring artists who appear in the Whitney Biennial or...
The sincere glamor of Candy Darling
...starlit autonomy. (The artist Greer Lankton would later make dolls of Vreeland and Candy, the latter for the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Many of Lankton’s dolls...
Taja Cheek makes curation a collaborative art
...guest curator for the 2024 Whitney Biennial’s performance program. As L’Rain, Cheek’s releases regularly top “best of” lists, and she’s toured with acts like Animal...
For artist Keegan Monaghan, empathy needs no context
...implicates the audience.” It’s the Evanston-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s third show with James Fuentes, having previously exhibited at Parker Gallery, the Whitney Biennial, and Simone Subal....
Jacolby Satterwhite is using the past to create art about the future
...flesh-and-blood reality. Painstakingly rendered and dense with creative detail, Satterwhite’s genre-bending work has been widely celebrated and featured in prestigious art world institutions, including the...
Olaf Breuning refreshes his cheeky creativity in the Hudson River Valley
...Swiss-born artist approaches his work with a heavy dose of humor, as in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, where he created an army by connecting teapot...
Brendan Fernandes reinterprets Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham’s ‘strange beauty’
...1991, as both reveled in the act of creative collaboration. Document spoke to Fernandes about the performance, which comes off the heels of his participation...
Why do curators still equate the ‘queer experience’ with pain?
...it seemed, rested on the boxes I hadn’t checked. After visiting the 2019 Whitney Biennial, one image, a photograph by gender non-conforming artist Elle Pérez...
On the ground in Puerto Rico, with 4 artists on the frontline of revolution
...the 2019 Whitney Biennial. “There are so many reasons,” she continued. “It’s been an accumulation of long years of corruption and abuse, and above all,...
An artist infiltrates The Hamptons’ cult of wellness
...year’s Whitney Biennial. The film, Human Design even begins in Restoration Hardware. “I got obsessed with the African wood carving that I saw in there,”...
Finding beauty in the in-between at the Venice Biennale
...the upcoming Whitney Biennial—makes sumptuous, addictive paintings and sculptures. There is also the queer, brilliant, borderline abstract “painter,” Ulrike Müller, who works mostly in tapestry...
Photographer Alec Soth spent a year being a stranger in people’s homes
...the [Sleeping by the Mississippi] pictures were going to be in the Whitney Biennial. I was a nobody…something does change if it ends up being...
Raúl de Nieves creates a magical carousel with Bulgari and Art Production Fund
...idea of fantasy. De Nieves made waves at the 2017 Whitney Biennial with sculptures coated in beads that sat in front of stained glass windows,...
Artist Larry Bell tells architect Frank Gehry about his addiction to beginnings
Artist Larry Bell is in the middle of an overdue career resurgence. Following his 2017 Whitney Biennial installation, which occupied the museum’s entire fifth-floor terrace,...
Sterling Ruby’s Basin Theology
...same body of work that is on view now at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of Michelle Grabner’s portion of the museum’s...
Tartan, Geneva, New York by Lyle Ashton Harris
...videos, such as in the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo and the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Together, they not only provide a very personal history of...
OMA Architect Shohei Shigematsu Speaks of Building Confidence with Critic Fred Bernstein
...good thing. Having one big idea wasn’t something I thought I could do. “What used to be the ‘Bilbao effect’ is now the ‘biennial effect,’...
Our Guide to Art Basel Miami 2016
...a politically-engaged showing that directly confronts racism in America, including several powerful paintings from Henry Taylor, already one of the most talked about artists in...
Rematerializing Technology
...work continues the artist’s brilliant gaze with a new set of collaborators—including punk ballerina Karole Armitage, Whitney Biennial artists Kate Gilmore and Heather Rowe, French...
Striking a pose with Brooklyn-based multi-hyphenate artist K8 Hardy
...when, as part of the Whitney Biennial, she sent a top made of found bras down a runway conceived by fellow artist Oscar Tuazon. So...
Performa founder RoseLee Goldberg and artist Shirin Neshat reflect on the performance art biennial
...in history and giving people context. It took me a while to figure out I was going to do a biennial. One reason for the...
En Plein Air: New York’s Artists Residencies
...work featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and is a member of artist collective ALLGOLD, this year’s recipient of the inaugural residency at The Print...
Ryan McNamara and Curator Piper Marshall on Performance Art in Museums and McNamara’s New Show
...practicalities are still being ironed out. Piper—Shannon Jackson gave a very provocative lecture about this at Artists Space [on the occasion of the Whitney Biennial]...
Stuart Comer By Zackary Drucker
...had a very busy year. After curating the top floor at the Whitney Biennial, Comer prepares his first show at MoMA this fall. Here, he...
