Datebook: May 27, 2010
The Whitney Museum takes over downtown, abstractions made of thread and paint, sculptures that look like battlestars and the art of Chatroulette. Your guide to what's happening now.Ghada Amer: Color...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
WNYC's Arts Datebook: Year-End Must-Sees —Female pop artists in Brooklyn, reinventing drawing at MoMA, and some singular works at the Whitney. If you’re looking for something to do between the holiday...
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Whitney Museum Sheds Uptown Home for New Meatpacking District Digs
The Whitney Museum of American Art breaks ground on Tuesday on its new home: an edgy new building designed by Renzo Piano in the Meatpacking District. The museum has spent the past 45 years on the...
View ArticleA Brand New Whitney in 1969
1969-04-24 —By 1966 the Whitney Museum was already in its third building on Madison and 75th Street. Listen to its then director John Baur speak only three years after that move.John Baur was the...
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, Silence Is My Breakup Album Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, Slate music critic Jody Rosen joins the Gabfest to lament the death of pop superstar Whitney Houston. Next, our critics share their personal Valentine’s Day playlists....
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A Sneak Peek at Films in the 2012 Whitney Biennial
Since 1975, The Whitney Museum of American Art has included a film program in its Biennial show. This year, in an unprecedented move, The Whitney tapped two outside film curators — Ed Halter and Thomas...
View ArticleWeekend Staff Picks: Love, Shadow Puppets & Drag Bingo
Here's a sample of some of the events our staff members are checking out around town this weekend.MELINDA WOEHRLE, associate director of news operations: With all of the attention given to British...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Nail Salons, Ethan Hawke & American Art
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Investigating Nail Salons (First) | Ethan Hawke's Drone Movie (Starts at 13:38) | American Art (Starts at 29:56)If you don't...
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Review: Stuart Davis at the Whitney
Stuart Davis, who was born in in 1892, the son of two artists, was an appealing figure. In the 1920s, when New York was still regarded as a cultural backwater compared to Paris, he set about to improve...
View ArticleLooking Closely at the Language of Politics, Unraveling Iran's Relationship...
Mark Thompson, President and CEO of The New York Times Company, examines the words and language used in political speech in his book, Enough Said. “Stuart Davis: In Full Swing” is now on view at the...
View ArticleEmmett Till Painting by White Artist Draws Protest
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Abstract art is usually open to interpretation, as is the case with a piece showing at the Whitney Biennial in New York entitled "Open Casket"...
View ArticleArts Education Gets New Meaning at the Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial ends June 11, and with it an unusual collaboration between the museum and a New York City public school. For the duration of the show, students from the Lower Manhattan Arts...
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Review: Wandering with Determination and Beauty
Toyin Ojih Odutola's first solo museum exhibit at the Whitney, "To Wander Determined," is a fierce and resonant, lyrical and vivid series of figures loosely connected by a fictional narrative of two...
View ArticleReview: Jimmie Durham’s Inimitable Mix of Poetry and Politics
Much of the attention surrounding the artist Jimmie Durham has been tethered to a non-art question. Is he genuinely Cherokee? Now 77, he claims he is and, moreover, he spent his early years working as...
View ArticleReview: A Warhol for the 21st Century
You might think you’ve seen enough Andy Warhol to last a lifetime. When I first heard about the full-dress Whitney Museum retrospective of his work that opens Monday, it sounded a bit gratuitous. These...
View ArticleMoney and Art (But Whose Money?)
Last week's clash between U.S. law enforcement and Central American migrants along the border with Mexico took place thousands of miles from New York. But the controversy surrounding the conflict found...
View ArticleReview: The Whitney Biennial Cops Out
Let’s start with a few statistics. Of the 75 artists appearing in the Whitney Biennial, which opens today and remains the country’s leading survey of new art, more than half are women. Additionally,...
View ArticleMoran on a High Floor at the Whitney
Since early fall, a corner of the Whitney Museum has been devoted to the sounds, thoughts, and visions of the jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran. As the year turns, the show goes into its final...
View ArticleJulie Mehretu's Mid-Career Survey at the Whitney
The artist Julie Mehretu joins us to discuss her mid-career survey show at The Whitney Museum of American Art, which opened on March 25 and is titled simply, "Julie Mehretu." The exhibit spans over two...
View ArticleJulie Mehretu's Mid-Career Survey at the Whitney
[REBROADCAST FROM MARCH 31, 2021] The artist Julie Mehretu joins us to discuss her mid-career survey show at The Whitney Museum of American Art, which opened on March 25 and is titled simply, "Julie...
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