Club Document: Celebrating SS24 with Erykah Badu, Michèle Lamy, and Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson
...Participant Inc.’s Lia Gangitano, Daisy Prince, Sam Penn, Parma Ham, Thomas Rom, Performance Space New York’s Pati Hertling, Whitney Mallett, Taylore Scarabelli, Michelle Duncan, Michael...
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...
Isabelle Huppert and Bruce LaBruce capture the profound power of deviance
“Maybe I have a twisted spirit,” says Isabelle Huppert. “But I never thought there was any perversity or brutality in any of the roles I’ve...
Cooper Brovenick’s diagnosis for the new age
...high-profile clients of his early mentor, interior design legend Whitney Robinson. A Modern Disease—like jetlag is his second presentation as a curator, a show that...
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...
Fine Print: A Tale of One City
...Whitney Mallett, the eponymous editor of The Whitney Review of New Writing, who’d graciously brought me as her plus-one. Most men wore blazers, except for...
50 years at church with the Poetry Project
...acoustic guitar in a Colette T-shirt screen-printed “VICTORIAN PUNK.” Photographed by Whitney Mallett. The electricity in the room swelled at around 8.30 when poet Cuthwulf...
The next wave of indie publishing
...Levy, describe the project as “too small to fail,” an approach that exemplifies their DIY editorial ethos. Whitney Mallett, who recently launched The Whitney Review...
Reckoning with the compound
...his depictions of New York City—which were recently revived in a thoughtful yet dull exhibition at the Whitney—the Cape Cod paintings show collections of barns...
For Donatien Grau, all roads lead to LA
...Koons to Raymond Pettibon, Whitney McVeigh to Huang Yong Ping, the show was a meditation on what might emerge from “the ultimate Platonic experience”—contemplation. Behind...
Inside Document, Feeld, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, and Mia Khalifa’s Pride party
...Edgerson, David Vivirido, Wali Deutsch, newly-appointed Curator of Photography for the Whitney Drew Sawyer, Charles Renfro, Daniel Gortler, Aziz Osko, Ignacio Muñoz, Jack Powers, Silvia...
ANOHNI and Johanna Constantine invoke art from apocalypse
...like a slow burn toward a certain kind of ending. But it also foreshadowed a recurring Blacklips image—a microphone and a cigarette. At the opening...
‘What Is Psychedelic’ details Aura Rosenberg’s appetite for impulse
...completed a couple of semesters at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. There, I was introduced to Clement Greenberg’s idea that Modernist painting was about...
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....
Whitney’s pain is our pleasure
...rapper. “When people come over and like Whitney, I love it, but don’t come to me asking if I’m Logic. This is me putting everyone...
Eileen Myles chronicles a people’s history of East River Park
...on the internet) by the ’90s for sure. New York became more like everyplace else. But the marble’s still here. I don’t mean that the...
Ashton Sanders and Kimberly Drew on the inextricable link between art and chaos
...Brown, for the Whitney Houston biopic. I had to really be in my body for that. But it is training. Acting definitely isn’t an easy...
Legacy Russell’s latest curation is a love letter to the quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama
...only road out was paved. “Isolation has always been the place’s curse,” wrote Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times, once the show had traveled...
Mickalene Thomas remixes tropes from art history to reveal everyday Black women as icons
...Thomas: It was probably around 1996. I moved to New York in February of ’95 to go to Pratt, and I saw your [Black Male]...
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...
Sarah Lewis brings her Vision & Justice project to Frieze New York
...exited Penn Station after being released on bail. A 2012 photograph of Braxton McKinney and Lavon Thomas by Bey hangs in Bey’s current exhibition at...
Frankie Alduino captures the longtime residents of Westbeth Artists’ Housing
...a 1999 Grammy. Now, it’s at the edge of one of New York’s most expensive neighborhoods; The new Whitney Museum is just two blocks away,...
Ray Moon does R&B on her own terms
...the intrigue of its title. Moon’s work is already varied. It ranges in influence from rap, to soul, to R&B, to house. She grew up...
Artist Sam Moyer creates a personal narrative in abstraction
...collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, The Morgan Library, and Fondation Louis Vuitton. Moyer chose to name the sculptures Doors for Doris, after the...
Finally, a Polaroid camera for going out
...Polaroid is partnering with a group of creators pushing artistic boundaries with the campaign “Go Create.” London-based musician Arlo Parks and Lizzo’s creative director Quinn...
Justine Kurland’s ‘SCUMB Manifesto’ creates a vision of female artistic legacy
...was asked to speak about Andy Warhol for The Whitney during his exhibition. Valerie Solanas was my way of accessing that exhibition. Avery: You have...
Pacifico Silano’s ‘I wish I never Saw the Sunshine’ collages queer identity from the tattered folds of gay erotica
...this collection from this former curator from the Whitney who passed away. I found out about it because my therapist said, ‘Hey I have a...
American Artist and Legacy Russell are hacking the cultural mainframe for a nonbinary future
...July 2020, they digitally Looted the Whitney, replacing the images of art on the museum’s website with photographs of plywood in reference to the boarded-up...
Meet American Artist, the artist who ‘looted’ the Whitney
...about. Alex: You ‘looted’ the Whitney. Can you explain how that happened? You replaced all of the art on the Whitney’s home page with photographs...
Buck Angel and Rachel Mason select 7 radically queer books for Pride
...section. Her work has been featured at the Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art, The Whitney, and LACMA. Decades later the two would meet at Outfest...
Montez Press Radio brings us the best (and weirdest) of the downtown arts and culture scene
...with—like a bunch of your smartest friends hanging out and talking shop.” The Literature and Art of AIDS “The summer we started Montez Press Radio...
At 80-years-old, Harlem photographer Shawn Walker finally gets his due
...Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Cincinnati Art Museum after the COVID-19 crisis passes. The exhibition...
The DIY magic of Art-Rite, the magazine that redefined the 1970s art scene
...America, but they decided to go it one better and launch their own. Art-Rite, as it would soon be known, came into being when 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...
Samuel Jablon and Mark Flood talk dirty words, hedonism, psychotropic drugs
...Whitney. Defend yourself! Samuel: I sort of came up through an activist poetry background. One of my teachers was Amiri Baraka, who was the Poet...
Jordan Nassar’s new apartment exhibition lives between the Israel, Palestine binary
...the new Whitney Museum show, Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, can speak to the historical interplay between Arab and Jew better than most. Some...
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...
Pope.L layers performances and haunted places to question dominant historical narratives
...place […] before I’ll be representationed like that.” In The Escape, liberation—and its counterpart, confinement—are symbols with many faces. Pope.L: Choir will be on view...
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...
David Antonio Cruz, the artist giving LGTBQ victims of violence a place in art history
...rape, exploitation, and assault during their journey to the United States. “I call her the diva,” said Cruz. “I was really thinking about Whitney Houston...
Pyer Moss becomes NYFW’s hottest ticket with its message of black liberation
...The Blood, the gospel choir that provided the show’s soulful soundtrack that included Donny Hathaway’s “Little Ghetto Boy,” Whitney Houston’s “Where Do Broken Hearts Go,”...
Gia Kuan, the PR powerhouse behind New York’s fashion renaissance
...who worked with Chanel, Armani, The Whitney, and more. “ I was really, really drawn to what she was doing,” said Kuan. “I actually had...
Nobody puts these bangers in the corner: ‘Dirty Dancing’ keeps on giving three decades later
...shot Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” to the highest echelons of sing-along fame, and Saturday Night Fever, the film that shot John Travolta...
Paradise Garage’s final nights: crying and dancing at the definitive rager of ’80s NYC
...by the hottest artists of the era, featuring everyone from Grace Jones to Whitney Houston, Sylvester to Divine, Klaus Nomi to New Order, Gwen Guthrie...
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,”...
2019 in photojournalism: encapsulating the stories we can’t afford to forget
...year, the 62nd of the competition, esteemed judges including Whitney Johnson of National Geographic and Barbara Stauss of Mare Magazine surveyed nearly 80,000 photo submissions...
Finding beauty in the in-between at the Venice Biennale
...Whitney Biennial—makes sumptuous, addictive paintings and sculptures. There is also the queer, brilliant, borderline abstract “painter,” Ulrike Müller, who works mostly in tapestry and ceramic....
As funding scandals shake the art world, two museums seek new alternatives
...“What’s happening right now, with Sackler, the Whitney board member linked to tear gas, and the Museum of Natural History abandoning the Brazilian American Chamber...
