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Whitney Museum of American Art

February 2023

  • Rachel Rossin - The Maw Of

    Refigured: exhibition explores identity through alternate worlds

    In a new exhibition at the Whitney, five artists tackle how concepts of self can cross between physical and virtual realms

May 2022

  • Yun Gee, Street Scene, 1926. Oil on board, 11 1/8 × 16 1/16 in. (28.3 × 40.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Lawrence H. Bloedel Bequest 77.1.18.

    ‘It’s so joyful and full of promise’: a modernism exhibition aims for hope

    At a new exhibition at the Whitney in New York, a look back at early 20th-century modernist art offers optimism and also a rare diversity

August 2020

  • Daily life, New York, USA - 07 Jul 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Erik Pendzich/REX/Shutterstock (10704877ae) The Whitney Museum of American Art is seen closed during the COVID-19 pandemic More than 22 museums in NYC have received federal aid in Paycheck Protection Program loans ranging from $150K to $10M. Topping the list is the Whitney Museum , which received a loan between $5-10M. Daily life, New York, USA - 07 Jul 2020 The government identified about 650,000 mostly small businesses and nonprofits that received taxpayer money through a federal program that was designed to soften job losses from the coronavirus but also benefited wealthy, well-connected companies and some celebrity owned firms.

    'I felt taken advantage of': the story of another Whitney museum controversy

    The New York institution has cancelled an upcoming exhibition after anger from artists whose work was being used without their permission

July 2019

  • MIchelle Obama<br>FILE- This April 30, 2015 photo shows an exterior view of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Seven artists have asked the museum to remove their work from its biennial showcase of American art over a museum board member’s ties to the sale of law-enforcement supplies including tear gas. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

    Whitney museum trustee resigns after protests over sale of teargas

  • The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York was ‘saddened’ at the artists’ withdrawal.

    Whitney artists withdraw over board member's ties to teargas company

May 2019

  • Press Preview of Whitney 2019 Biennial<br>epa07567909 A person looks at paintings by artist Kyle Thurman as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2019 Biennial in New York, New York, USA, 13 May 2019. The exhibit, which runs from 17 May until 22 September, features seventy-five active American artists’ work including paintings, sculptures, installations, films and videos, photography, performance, and sound. EPA/JUSTIN LANE

    Whitney Biennial 2019: why is this year's show so safe?

    The show, increasingly typified by controversial resistance art, is presenting a mostly safe front this year despite a growing protest over a Whitney trustee

November 2018

  • Detail of Ethel Scull 36 Times, 1963 by Andy Warhol

    Pop's dark star: the return of Andy Warhol

    He predicted Trump, selfies and social media – but a blockbuster retrospective reveals that it’s the overlooked later work which can truly move us today

July 2018

  • Clarissa Tossin, Chu Mayaa Production Still 2, 2017

    'We're building a bridge' – the exhibition shining a light on Latinx artists

  • Self-Portrait of David Wojnarowicz, 1983–84

    David Wojnarowicz: remembering the work of a trailblazing artist

May 2018

  • Robert Indiana

    Pop artist Robert Indiana, creator of LOVE, dies aged 89

    The reclusive artist’s stacked-letter Love sculptures were instantly recognisable, overshadowing his other work – though he had a retrospective at New York’s Whitney

September 2017

  • Keith Haring’s Ignorance = Fear / Silence = Death, 1989

    A brief history of protest art from the 1940s until now - in pictures

    The role of art in confronting important political and social issues is brought to the forefront at a new exhibition at the Whitney in New York

March 2017

  • Whitney Biennial protest

    Whitney Biennial: Emmett Till casket painting by white artist sparks anger

    Dana Schutz’s depiction of the mutilated body of a 14-year-old African American boy has been accused of using black death as racialized ‘spectacle’

July 2016

  • Dislocation … detail from the video Black Friday by Sophia Al Maria, filmed in an unopened mall in Qatar.

    Artist Sophia Al-Maria: 'People hate Islam, but they're titillated by it too'

    As her first solo show opens in New York, the Qatari-American artist talks about Gulf pop culture, gross veil fetishes – and why she’s not playing the ‘native informant’

June 2016

  • Danny Lyon: Message To The Future at The Whitney
Danny Lyon, Maricopa County, Arizona, 1977

    The Whitney launches major retrospective of Danny Lyon - in pictures

    Danny Lyon: : Message to the Future opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art on 17 June and runs until 25 September

April 2016

  • Cecil Taylor performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, April 14, 2016, as part of Open Plan.

    Cecil Taylor review – double helping of magic from free jazz pioneer

    At the opening of a gallery show devoted to his work, the 87-year-old composer and improvising pianist shows why he’s still a force like no other

February 2016

  • Andrea Fraser: filling the fifth floor of the Whitney with sound.

    Andrea Fraser: the artist turning the Whitney into a prison

    The artist and provocateur is filling the New York gallery’s immense fifth floor with nothing but sound from Sing Sing jail – drawing a link between two institutions bookending American society
  • Laura Poitras (b. 1964), ANARCHIST: Data Feed with Doppler Tracks from a Satellite (Intercepted May 27, 2009), 2016. Pigmented inkjet print mounted on aluminum, 45 × 64 3/4 in. (114.3 × 164.5 cm).

    Laura Poitras: Astro Noise review – Citizenfour director loses the plot

    The Oscar- and Pulitzer-winner’s art show looks feeble, and worse, diffuses the violence and illegality of the years after 9/11 into kitsch and melodrama
  • Director Laura Poitras arrives to attend the Chaplin award at Alice Tully Hall in New York April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz - RTX1AK2M

    Laura Poitras: using art to illuminate a world that would rather remain unseen

    With a name taken from Edward Snowden the film-maker’s art show Astro Noise at the Whitney Museum, reveals the vast scale of the post-9/11 surveillance state

December 2015

  • Museu do Amanhã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    10 of the best new museums

    After an alternative to the usual museum trips? This roundup of new and improved exhibition spaces and galleries should be just the ticket

November 2015

  • Justin Torres reading Moby Dick at the Whitney Museum.

    Moby-Dick marathon at the Whitney: an orgy of cetology and Frank Stella

    In New York this weekend, visitors to the museum were treated to the twisting and gorgeous sentences of Herman Melville read aloud
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