The Whitney Museum of American Art

Considering the paradoxes and pitfalls of the artist’s explorations of work and class, on view at the Whitney during Frieze Week

From Rachel Whiteread’s entropic assemblages at Luhring Augustine to a Lizzi Bougatsos performance tribute at TRAMPS

A survey of Puerto Rican art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, considers the US territory five years after the devastation of Hurricane Maria

At the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a massive survey, focusing on the famed artist's legacy, bypasses new readings of his oeuvre

On the occasion of McKenzie’s Whitney show, Shiv Kotecha writes revisits Old Man/Sarcophagus (2013)

The public art installation in Hudson River Park will pay tribute to Matta-Clark’s iconic Day’s End and the commerce, crime, leisure and lovemaking of Manhattan's waterfront past 

The artist's first institutional solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art explores lives of Brown, queer subjects through a scrim of nostalgia

The artist’s online project enacts a daily fantasy of revenge – or reparation – for the Western history of institutional racism and colonialism

At the Whitney Museum, an ambitious survey shows the transformative effects of Mexican muralism on the US avant-garde 

In further news: Giudecca Art District opens in Venice; gallery sued over fake Bonnard; Decolonize This Place activist arrested

This is the second open letter calling for the removal of the vice chair for his ties to weapons company

W.A.G.E issued demands in an open letter to protest against non-removal of weapons mogul as museum’s vice chair

We said goodbye to Cecil Taylor, Sam Miller, Takehisa Kosugi and many others. New York also welcomed the return of two prominent non-profit institutions

In further news: Kasper König under fire for alleged racist comments; Israel urges Germany to defund Berlin’s Jewish Museum

In further news: Paris museums close after Gilets Jaunes protests; Candice Breitz demands release of aid worker

‘To remain silent is to be complicit’: more than 100 staff have demanded the museum clarify its policy on trustee participation

In further news: badger-hair paintbrushes linked to animal cruelty; Sotheby’s India hit by #MeToo claims

The spectral presence of prisoners in everyday commodities 

‘This retrospective portrays an inveterate outsider, a champion of the different and disempowered, as a fixture of a canon he reviled’

The monumental sculpture will trace the outlines of a now-demolished 19th century salt shed, once made into an artwork by Gordon Matta-Clark