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2012 Whitney Biennial List, Leaked

by Paddy Johnson on December 21, 2011

Thanks to GalleristNY for publishing an email with the names of the Whitney Biennial artists. So far the blog’s only been able to confirm 8 of the 51 names, but we’re republishing the list with some initial thoughts.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: The Whitney Biennial, It’s Good

by Art Fag City on March 5, 2010

Piotr Uklanski (left), Untitled (Red Dwarf), 2010, Resin on fiberglass and aluminum, Piotr Uklanski (back wall), Untitled (The Year We Make Contact), 2010, Jute, hemp, macrame, and pigment My Whitney Biennial review is on the front page of the L Magazine today. The teaser below: Everyone likes their homework done for them. In theory, this […]

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Gearing Up for The Whitney Biennial

by Art Fag City on February 3, 2010

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON If the Meet the Biennial Curators press breakfast is any indication — and it never is — this year’s Whitney Biennial will be really great. I maintain an optimistic outlook regardless of whether it’s effective PR spin for a couple of reasons: The exhibition isn’t obnoxiously ambitious in scale. Fewer artists […]

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The Whitney Biennial: Two VERY Different Takes

by Art Fag City on April 14, 2008

Daniel Joseph Martinez, Divine Violence, 2007, installation view, The Project, New York, automotive paint on wood panel, dimensions variable Steven Squibb writes about the Whitney Biennial, at ArtCal Zine, Much has been made of the supposed theme of the show, ‘lessness,’ as though the works on display were trying to provincialize and impoverish themselves to […]

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: The Whitney Biennial – The New Has Never Looked So Old

by Art Fag City on March 26, 2008

Leslie Hewitt, Make It Plain (2 of 5), 2006. My review of the Whitney Biennial now online at the L Magazine. I’ve pasted a large portion of it below. Between the Whitney Biennial's two exhibition spaces, one sprawling through four floors of the museum and the other at the Park Armory building, the institution's survey […]

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Richard Lacayo on the Whitney Biennial

by Art Fag City on March 19, 2008

Frederick Charles photograph of Joe Bradley’s installation at the Whitney at Time.com wins the award for least representative image of the Biennial. Any other shot in the museum would have included four or five works due to the nature of the exhibition design. Looks like it’s Whitney Biennial day here at AFC. My own write […]

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Highlights and Lowlights at the Whitney Biennial

by Art Fag City on March 5, 2008

An in depth review of the Biennial is forthcoming, but in the meantime I’d like to share a few highlights and lowlights from the show. Not bad! An installation shot of the fourth floor, featuring the work of (from right to left) Heather Rowe, Rodney McMillian, and Olivier Mosset. Photo AFC John Baldessari, Installation view, […]

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The Whitney Biennial Press Quote of the Day

by Art Fag City on March 4, 2008

Gardar Eide Einarsson, Black Suit (Sic Semper Tyrannis), 2008, Photo AFC As it may or may not be evident from the photo above, Einarsson’s Black Suit (Sic Semper Tyrannis) now up at the Park Armory as part of the Whitney Biennial, showcases a dinner jacket and suit pants one hung inside another. As evidenced today, […]

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A Word From the Curators of the Whitney Biennial

by Art Fag City on May 18, 2006

Sometime ago I wrote a piece that questioned the curatorial practice of Chrissie Iles and Phillipe Vergne. The post can be read here, but among other things I had relayed information that they had overstepped their boundaries as curators by offering suggestions to artist Jesus Bubu Negron as to what he could do with his […]

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Finding Light (And An Ode To The Ass) In The 2017 Whitney Houston Biennial

by Emily Colucci on March 23, 2017

Seven small spray bottles labeled “Trigger Spray” and a packet of tissues emblazoned with “Your Feelings Are Valid” sit on a pedestal in a back corner of the Whitney Houston Biennial at Chashama. In a silly sendup of trigger warnings and safe spaces, the corresponding label for the work by Elana Langer lists humor along with the other materials. As it turns out, this isn’t just an ingredient in Langer’s piece. Humor is key to many of the all-women group show’s inclusions, which felt like a breath of fresh air with the doom and gloom of both the Whitney Biennial and the daily outrage of the Trump administration.

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