Photographer Alec Soth spent a year being a stranger in people’s homes
...[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 that...
Kunle Martins and Jack Pierson invite you to their ‘Pee Party’
...the Whitney. He had a party, and the second one is a photo I took of him on one of our first nights out together...
Tabitha Soren sees America’s collective anxiety in our fingerprint-stained screens
...a rudimentary copy-paste of the original source URL. It’s not just machines that cause destruction. Human touch, Soren illustrates, can be dangerous too. Meanwhile, anxiety—which...
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,...
Jenny Holzer’s powerful AIDS Day performance reminds us to keep fighting
...Whitney, Times Square, and Harlem. Left: Portrait of Jenny Holzer. “I’m working on #LightTheFight because the fight against AIDS continues,” said Holzer in a statement...
Eckhaus Latta’s first permanent New York store is a blank slate
...first permanent New York store in the same building. The new space, contrary to the brand’s pop-up shop/gallery exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American...
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,...
Has the internet broken the marketplace of ideas? Rethinking free speech in the Digital Age
...Brandeis famously wrote in his concurring opinion in the 1927 Supreme Court case Whitney v. California, “the remedy to be applied to [falsehood and fallacies]...
Amy Winehouse and the dead celebrity hologram industry
...the U.S, there are now two big hologram companies: Hologram USA and Pulse Evolution. Hologram USA was planning a Whitney Houston hologram tour in 2016,...
New York sees Andy Warhol’s “Shadows” for the first time since 1998
...1978-1979 Shadows series are hanging in the ground level space at Calvin Klein’s headquarters through December 15 as a pre-cursor to the mammoth upcoming exhibition...
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...
New York’s unreciprocated love for Benedetta Barzini
...Whitney and Philip Johnson invited me to spend my weekends in Johnson’s amazing glass house in Connecticut. We would sit there in front of the...
Meet New Pandemics, the modeling agency that’s looking to bring queer visibility to the forefront
...him on her knees, armed with camera, while images from the 1980s that included Jean-Paul Goude’s iconic Island Life album cover of Grace Jones, voguers...
Eckhaus Latta brings its inner circle to Bushwick for Spring/Summer 2019
...earned a LVMH nomination and became the first fashion brand to have an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in over 20 years....
Vaginal Davis skypes with artist Bjarne Melgaard about toe sucking, Xerox parties, and her many personas
...and infiltrated galleries and museums with his unique visual assault. His work has appeared in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, recent solo shows in Paris, and...
Eckhaus Latta tests the boundaries between fashion, art and commerce at The Whitney
Eckhaus Latta: Possessed, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s first fashion-focused exhibition since 1997, is all about possessions. Possessing clothes, in particular. There, visitors will...
The story of Ser Serpas’s improvised and lucid readymades
...how you operate as an artist? Serpas—I’ve worked at both The Whitney and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. Those experiences have been invaluable for giving me consistent...
David Wojnarowicz’s sleepless nights come to the Whitney
...his work is just as relevant now, and until September 30, a retrospective of his work will be on view at the Whitney Museum of...
In Furs by Lorna Simpson
...view at Hauser & Wirth, she spoke with Daniella Rose King, a writer and curator and the Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s...
Voyaging into Lucy Dodd’s magical family space
...in New York City, a getaway map, in case you want to follow her lead. In her first show since a 2016 Whitney solo exhibition,...
The unfinished business of William Eggleston’s Los Alamos
...the land. And that, ultimately, it will vanish just as fleetingly. Writing about Democratic Camera, Eggleston’s 2008 retrospective at the Whitney, The New Yorker’s Peter...
Casey Spooner and Michael Stipe penetrate queerdom
...because I couldn’t deal with all the bad Cher and Whitney Houston remixes. I’m a kid of the 80s, I was raised on Madonna’s “Blond...
Tartan, Geneva, New York by Lyle Ashton Harris
...histories. As a young artist studying at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia and at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New...
OMA Architect Shohei Shigematsu Speaks of Building Confidence with Critic Fred Bernstein
...expansion of the Whitney Museum in 2001. It included a huge cantilevered structure that looked like it was shaking a fist at the Upper East...
Centered Rhyme by Elaine Lustig Cohen and Hermès
...distinctly American visual idiom for an impressive roster of clients, including the Jewish Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, architects Eero Saarinen and Richard...
Revelations of Truth
...Vija Celmins shows gems of early works, including a black and white painting that is part sumani, part burning forest. Stanley Whitney also presents his...
Polymath Yvonne Rainer Discusses How She’s Remained Radical for 50 Years with RoseLee Goldberg
...it. RoseLee—You’ve taught for years in art schools, in California, and before that in the Whitney program. It seems to me you are revered and...
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...
Douglas Crimp and Malik Gaines on Queer Liberation and the Decline of Radicalism
...artists in the Whitney Biennials around that time. We’ve moved some from there. It was also the time when the Museo del Barrio was founded...
Documentary Practices: Quentin Bajac & LaToya Ruby Frazier
...I became fascinated with him during my time at the Whitney Independent Study Program. We talked a lot about Adorno’s seminal essays and the understanding...
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...
The Met’s Beatrice Galilee and architect Elizabeth Diller on new approaches to architecture
...that building mean to the public after the Whitney Museum moved out? It looks the same, it is the same, but is radically different—it’s both...
Performa founder RoseLee Goldberg and artist Shirin Neshat reflect on the performance art biennial
...form, a sign that performance art has truly arrived. Spaces like The Tanks at the Tate Modern, the theater in the new Whitney Museum of...
HBA’s Shayne Oliver discusses the future of fashion with artist Rashaad Newsome
...recent years shown performances and works at The Whitney, The New Museum, and MoMA/PS1, to discuss Italian fashion, prisoners, and why you shouldn’t call Oliver...
Lauren Cornell in Conversation with Cory Arcangel
...artist Cory Arcangel, himself the subject of previous shows at The Whitney, MoMA, and The New Museum, on curating pre-social media, art startups, and self-help...
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...
Miuccia Prada and OMA still remember a time when art could scandalize
...Whitney Museum of American Art in 2001, was also about dispersion and ephemera, of the digital sort. At that point, art looked like it might...
The enduring resonance of artist Jack Goldstein’s insular nihilism
...he slipped rather seamlessly into obscurity until the 2004 Whitney Biennial where his films appeared with renewed interest. Goldstein’s ability to distill an image to...
MoMA PS1 founder Alanna Heiss looks back on a lifetime of guerrilla art
...space. For instance, I went up to the Whitney, MoMA and the Guggenheim and asked them if they wanted to be part of an art...
