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 the 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
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
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