The concept of performing and creating work within various exhibition sites was born out of necessity when the Dawn lost her studio, and it has now become an integral part of her artistic practice.
Robert Bettmann | Posted 05.14.2012
The arts are positively integrated into the Occupy Movement in several ways, but they are also a front on which activists are attacking the economic system.
Brett Baker | Posted 04.13.2012
Artists speak the same language, that of the studio, enabling them to ask questions that get beyond basic biography and into the how and why. Enjoy these 10 virtual visits to the Whitney, the Armory Art Fair, artists' studios and exhibitions.
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 03.23.2012
For the past 80 years, the Whitney Biennial has introduced to the public the undercurrents running through contemporary art. This year, the Biennial f...
Chris Vroom | Posted 05.06.2012
Art fairs have become an essential ritual in the rhythm of the art world with collectors, curators, museum groups and artists regularly joining hundre...
Posted 03.01.2012
Art kids and fancy celebrities gathered on the Upper East Side on Wednesday evening for the 2012 Whitney Biennial Opening Party, where attendees parti...
ARTINFO | Posted 04.30.2012
The Whitney Biennial always draws fire from critics, but this year we're witnessing what seems like an unprecedented amount of actual anti-biennial ac...
Posted 02.29.2012
An intimate setting and unusual mediums are emphasized at this year's biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Of the 51 artists featured, a la...
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 01.09.2012
Today Herb Tam wrote about the problems already plaguing the 2012 Whitney Biennial since the artists names were leaked last month. Tam writes on his b...
Posted 12.22.2011
Forget WikiLeaks, this week is all about Whitney Leaks. The Whitney Biennial, the large-scale New York exhibition known for setting trends and setting...
Zac Hill | Posted 02.18.2012
The idea is simple enough: it's a series of interconnected vignettes that explore how -- as individuals in society -- we are simultaneously isolated and drawn together by our dependence on communication technology.
Doreen Remen | Posted 05.25.2011
Sue de Beer concentrates on giving form to that intense adolescent turmoil that we're all familiar with, modifying conventions of movie-making to help make her point.
David Coggins | Posted 05.25.2011
Stephen Malkmus is the slacker king who can't help it. That he's not even a slacker makes his elevation more remarkable still. He's knowing in the e...
Allison K Gibson | Posted 05.25.2011
MuseumNerd's original avatar Chances are, if you're on Twitter and you're an art lover, you've become acquainted with the thoughtful and entertaining...
Nicole Campoy-Leffler | Posted 05.25.2011
Curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari have indeed found the pulse of the art world in America
artinfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011
One has to sympathize with New York gallerists this week: with the Whitney Biennial opening, little attention is being paid to events elsewhere in the...
Alex Geana | Posted 05.25.2011
If the Biennial is supposed to have its thumb on the pulse that is American culture, they have succeeded. I didn't like what I saw, either.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011
The Whitney Biennial's curator flags five pieces exclusively for HuffPost readers, and we check out this year's recession-friendly art on Opening Night.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Score one for the home team, including a local comic artist. Twelve Los Angeles-based artists have been chosen to participate in the 2010 Whitney Bie...
Carolyn Castiglia | Posted 05.25.2011
If working class people can get t-shirts with prints created by artists, why should we complain that we don't have health care? Got an open wound? Take that Jeff Koons t-shirt, shred it up and use it as a tourniquet.
Yasmine Mohseni | Posted 05.21.2012