PreviewExhibitions
Dawoud Bey on his new show spanning 1970s street photography to poignant nocturnal landscapes
The US photographer's travelling exhibition, which opens at the Whitney Museum in New York, charts his four decades documenting the African American experience
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Ann Craven at Karma to Madeline Hollander at the Whitney
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Julie Mehretu’s mid-career survey at the Whitney to the Frick Collection’s temporary encampment in the Breuer building
Newslayoffs
Whitney lays off 15 more staff members, citing ‘extremely low’ attendance
Museum’s director notes that it may take until 2025 for tourists to return in force to New York
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review—Working Together: the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop
An important show reflects a New York collective’s chronicles of Black life amid pervasive discrimination in the 1960s and 1970s
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2021
The biggest art exhibitions opening around the world in 2021
The new year's must-see shows include Vermeer and Botticelli blockbusters; major Jasper Johns and Yayoi Kusama retrospectives; and sweeping surveys on Iran, slavery and queer art
NewsDiscoveries
The story behind a student who discovered Edward Hopper's earliest paintings were copies
New research finds teenage artist's landscapes were based on a magazine for amateurs learning how to paint
NewsWhitney Biennial
Whitney postpones 2021 biennial by one year
Pandemic complicated organisational efforts by curators and stymied artists
NewsWhitney Museum of American Art
Artists urge the Whitney to review its ethical practices following backlash over cancelled exhibition
An open letter calls for the Whitney to “commit to a year of action—of mobilisation and introspection”
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Whitney's prelude to David Hammons's Day's End to Sharona Franklin's decomposing work at King's Leap
NewsMuseums
Whitney Museum cancels show following artists' accusations of exploitation
Many black artists objected to an exhibition after they discovered their work had been acquired by the museum through discounted sales to benefit anti-racism causes
Newsreopenings
New York clears the way for the city's museums to reopen
MoMA, the Whitney, the Morgan, the American Folk Art Museum, the New Museum, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum announce plans to welcome the public, joining the Met and the New-York Historical Society
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York, London and online this weekend
From photographs of a pandemic-and-protest changed New York at the Museum of the City of New York to reflections on domesticity at Soft Opening's new London space
AnalysisBlack Lives Matter
Reform or reset? How cultural institutions are facing a reckoning over racism
US and UK museums have been accused of tokenism, hypocrisy and fake solidarity for rushing to declare support for Black Lives Matter. Where do they go from here?
NewsThree to see
Three online exhibitions honouring Pride Month
From the history of discriminatory blood donation policies at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art to the history of the rainbow flag
NewsProtests
Former Whitney vice chairman divests businesses marketing aggressive crowd-control technology
Corporation owned by Warren B. Kanders, whose links to tear gas led to his museum ouster, is selling off divisions associated with aggressive tactics
NewsProtest
Art world workers join protests against injustice in New York—and aim to change racist systems in the culture sphere
Activists working at museums and galleries are bringing the fight for equality from the streets back into institutions
PreviewThree to see
Three shows to see online this weekend
From a collaborative series between the New Museum and Rhizome to Modern Art Oxford's virtual tours
ReviewThree to see
Three museum collections to explore from home this weekend
From the Centre Pompidou's #PompidouVIP to the Whitney's focus on recent acquisitions by living artists
BlogBook Club
What is the curator Chrissie Iles reading during lockdown?
The Whitney Museum of American Art curator delights in learning about the global culture of the Middle Ages and finds lessons for the future in a Cauleen Smith monograph
Newscoronavirus
Whitney and New Museum lay off staff members as coronavirus economic fallout continues
Employee cuts come three weeks after institutions shut down
Newscoronavirus
Arts organisations produce face masks and other medical equipment to help slow the spread of coronavirus
As museums donate protective supplies to medical centres during coronavirus crisis, grassroots efforts to make masks struggle to meet medical standards
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Cauleen Smith’s feminist films at the Whitney to Rodney McMillian’s conceptual landscapes at Petzel Gallery
PreviewExhibitions
Beyond the wall: a golden period of exchange between Mexican and US artists is revisited in new show
Whitney Museum exhibition will explore the enduring influence of artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros on US counterparts including Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Pope.L’s overdue retrospective at MoMA to meditations on the climate by Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Peter Halley’s day-glo funhouse to Rachel Harrison’s retrospective at the Whitney
NewsAcquisitions
Whitney Museum acquires 88 works by biennial artists
The works, by 40 artists, are among 250 that have entered the collection since the spring
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Wayne Thiebaud’s little-known paintings of the Southwest to Shirin Neshat’s exhibition of Iranian women artists
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Betye Saar’s mysticism at MoMA to the first retrospective dedicated to conceptual photographer Duane Michals at the Morgan Library and Museum
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the LMCC’s Art Center inaugural season to William Powhida’s watercolour memes
NewsDavid Hammons
Whitney Museum breaks ground on public installation by David Hammons
The museum celebrated the project, due to be completed in 2020, with a NYPD fireboat performance and specially commissioned jazz composition
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Philanthropy, but at what price? US museums wake up to public's ethical concerns
Daniel Weiss, Adam Weinberg and other museum leaders speak out following the fallout from the resignation of the Whitney’s vice chairman and the ongoing Sackler affair
NewsPublic art
David Hammons’s public sculpture on the Hudson River will now be beachfront property
Gansevoort Peninsula, the site of Day’s End, will also include a 5.65-acre park, wetlands and kayak launch
NewsWhitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum vice chairman Warren Kanders steps down after months of protests
His company Safariland has been criticised for manufacturing tear gas canisters that have been used on asylum seekers along the US-Mexico border
NewsWhitney Biennial
Four artists withdraw their work from the Whitney Biennial
The move follows on-going calls for the resignation of the museum board's vice chairman
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Donna De Salvo steps down as Whitney senior curator
After organising popular shows like a Warhol retrospective, she resigns to “pursue other interests’’
Podcast
Should museums sell works of art? Plus, activism at the Whitney Biennial
After the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's sale of its Rothko, we discuss the principles that guide deaccessioning in the US and speak to activists about the Whitney vice-chairman's problematic link to a weapons manufacturer
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Everything is good at the Whitney Biennial but nothing makes a difference
Despite a history of protest and a very present controversy at the museum, this year’s survey of American contemporary art is missing a radical spirit
PreviewBiennials & festivals
Whitney Biennial aims to focus on artists but—as protests mount—it cannot escape politics
The Whitney Museum has turned to two in-house curators to put together a show that celebrates diversity in American art—but as in 2017, the biennial is already mired in controversy
News
Many Whitney Biennial artists sign letter calling for museum vice chairman's removal
Letter cites Warren B. Kanders's role in company that manufactured tear gas used at US border
NewsWhitney Biennial
'I stand in solidarity with the staff and say no': Michael Rakowitz on why he turned down the Whitney Biennial
Recent controversies over the museum's board prompt artist to question participation in this year's event
NewsAcquisitions
Whitney acquires Abstract Expressionist painting by Norman Lewis
The museum will show the underrecognised African American artist's work alongside pieces by his contemporaries
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Two venues of Andy Warhol, and young painter Theodora Allen's ancient symbolism
ReviewExhibitions
Essential viewing: Warhol from A to B and Back Again at New York’s Whitney Museum
The sprawling show is a needed revisit for those who remember Warhol as a living, brilliant savant, taste-maker and oddball
News
Protesters stream into Whitney, calling for removal of board vice chairman
They assailed the trustee's business ties to the tear gas fired by US border agents
News
Whitney staff members assail vice chairman’s business tie to tear gas attacks at US border
In a letter, they express ‘outrage’ over a connection to a military and law enforcement supplier
BlogLinda on the loose
Andy Warhol is back again and better than ever—thanks to the Whitney’s Donna De Salvo
Podcast
Andy Warhol (part one): Whitney curator Donna De Salvo on the key moments of the king of Pop art's career
From his early life as a commercial artist to his celebrity portraits, as well as his relationship with a certain Donald Trump. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
PreviewExhibitions
Andy Warhol for the Instagram age: huge retrospective opens at the Whitney in New York
Exhibition spanning four decades looks to introduce the king of Pop art to the social media generation
PreviewAndy Warhol
Is Warhol to blame for Trump? Pop pioneer's work touches on many issues facing America today
“It’s a very potent time to raise many of these issues,” says curator of the Warhol survey opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Be dazzled by Mary Corse's light at the Whitney or catch the Met's Heavenly Bodies before it closes
News
Culture Pass has New Yorkers reaching for their library cards—but demand is exceeding supply
New scheme offering free tickets to some of the city’s most popular museums had thousands of responses
ReviewExhibitions
David Wojnarowicz was a poet, a fighter, a hustler, a survivor
The many sides of a complicated artist are explored with freshness, polish, and insight in the Whitney Museum’s retrospective
PreviewExhibitions
David Wojnarowicz’s furiously prolific but short-lived career explored in major show
As US culture wars reignite, the Whitney Museum stages a timely exhibition of New York’s finest firebrand
NewsPublic art
Public review open for David Hammons’s Day’s End proposal
The “ghost monument” in Hudson River Park would be paid for and maintained by the Whitney Museum
NewsExhibitions
Whitney’s Warhol: new blockbuster show to reinvent artist for the Instagram age
Museum’s director Adam Weinberg explains why exhibition took eight years to realise and why it will be "selfie-central"
InterviewFrieze New York
Frieze Artist Award winner Kapwani Kiwanga takes on colonialism
Imposing open-air work made of African farming fabric opens at New York fair this week
PreviewExhibitions
History repeating itself? Three major US shows look at 1930s art and political climate
Exhibitions of Grant Wood, Precisionism and interwar Europe draw parallels with today
BlogLinda on the loose
The Whitney delivers with an artist double-header: Zoe Leonard and Grant Wood
Feature
The ethics of appropriation
Can art represent the culture of marginalised groups without exploiting them? Jillian Steinhauer investigates
ReviewExhibitions
Time to look: Laura Owens’s self-reflective paintings demand considered attention
Visitors should not rush through the Los Angeles artist’s mid-career survey at New York’s Whitney Museum
ReviewExhibitions
The man without a face: Jimmie Durham at the Whitney Museum
Questions about identity abound in the travelling retrospective of the American artist’s work
NewsPublic art
Whitney makes the case for David Hammons’s ‘ghost monument’ on the Hudson River
The museum presented its proposal for the public work at a community board meeting Wednesday night—and early reactions were positive
ArchiveExhibitions
78th Whitney Biennial expands definition of American art
Their largest edition yet spans the globe looking at what makes American art
FeatureFeatures
New museums: the rise of cryptic cathedrals of the cosmos
Charles Jencks revisits his article written for The Art Newspaper in 2000 to survey how museum architecture has evolved since the millennium
NewsWhitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum turns over its column-free fifth floor to artists
The museum’s new programme Open Plan will present large-scale installations by Michael Heizer, Andrea Fraser and others
NewsPerformance art
Performance pioneers DANCENOISE take centre stage at the Whitney
ArchiveWhitney Museum of American Art
Whitney’s billionaire chairman of trustees steps down
Leonard Lauder’s decision to leave the institution coincides with launch of $680m fundraising campaign
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
News from the US: Bush and Blair go under the (sledge) hammer, the Whitney suffers loan woes, and Rakowitz can't get a date
Tate’s US patrons applaud the destruction of cake effigies, while MoMA makes life difficult
ArchiveWhitney Museum of American Art
A new international role for the Whitney under Adam Weinberg
The museum's new director has assembled his curatorial team and is preparing to steer it on a radical new course
ArchiveExhibitions
Eva Hesse at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Gallery shows of Hesse’s fragile sculptures are rare
ArchiveRobert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg's evolution examined in new show at Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol
Compare and contrast the last decade of the master's oeuvre
ArchiveArt market
Architecture is taking centre stage in the art world, and the market for architectural drawings is heating up
Few dealers, scarce material, but a growing audience
ArchiveDigital art
What are museums doing to collect, store and show internet art?
Ossian Ward investigates European and US perspectives and the issues of conservation and ownership
ArchiveArtist interview
The body under scrutiny: Interview with Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith responds to recent attacks on her work by Met director Philippe de Montebello
ArchiveAlexander Calder
Calder-inspired mobiles are removed from several gallery gift shops in the US
The Calder foundation cites fears concerning authenticity
ArchiveExhibitions
Castello di Rivoli to host its second exhibition of American art this year
“Sunshine and noir” explores the dramatic contrasts of Los Angeles as seen through the art produced there over the past forty years
ArchiveAndy Warhol
New Warhol exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum
The major show chronicles the many faces of Warhol's fascination with fame
ArchiveKeith Haring
Haring recognised at last, climbing from subway to museum
On the one hand, official recognition, on the other, the problem of fakes
ArchiveWhitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum blamed for the demise of a beloved book store
Books versus Basquiats?
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
The Serpentine asks how good was Jean-Michel Basquiat, really?
The artist's complicated oeuvre makes it hard to judge if some works are forged - or if instead he was just having an off day
ArchiveOctober 1994
The smoking dilemma: will Philip Morris's art support outlive its critics?
The tobacco giant remains one of the most important private funders of the arts in the US
ArchiveMuseums
The Warhol museum opens this month
At 83,000 square feet it is bigger than the Whitney
ArchiveMuseums
Hiring out the collection: the Whitney does, MoMA doesn’t
Collection leasing provides a fundraising alternative for some museums, and a surrogate permanent collection for others
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
Whitney compares Basquiat to Leonardo da Vinci in new retrospective
Music Television and Madonna sponsor her late lover
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
First American Basquiat retrospective to be held at the Whitney
Whitney director, David Ross, gambles on his political correctness
ArchiveMuseums
Philip Morris Companies Inc. receives award for their continued sponsorship of art from The Whitney Museum of American Art
The selection of the tobacco corporation as first winner is testament to its long-term relationship with the museum
ArchiveWhitney Museum of American Art
The vision for The Whitney under new leadership: less isolationist; diverse, rather than deep
David Ross, the new director reveals his ideas
ArchiveRobert Rauschenberg
Rauschenberg’s fifteen minutes: an assessment of the artist's impact as he takes over New York
After Warhol and Johns, it’s the turn of the globe-trotting
Comment
The recent protests at the Whitney show museum trustees’ dealings cannot be ignored
The same old arguments in favour of ignoring the business dealings of trustees, of pretending museum programming can function independently of those funding it, cannot stand for long
Aruna D'Souza