The Whitney Museum of American Art

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

BY Paul McAdory | 15 MAY 23

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

BY frieze | 04 APR 23

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

 

BY Eva Díaz | 22 FEB 23

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

BY Will Fenstermaker | 12 NOV 21

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

BY Shiv Kotecha AND Dave McKenzie | 19 APR 21

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 

BY Tavia Nyong’o | 30 MAR 21

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

BY Tausif Noor | 16 FEB 21

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

BY Simon Wu | 18 AUG 20

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

BY Jackson Arn | 21 APR 20

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

BY Frieze News Desk | 14 MAY 19

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

BY Frieze News Desk | 08 APR 19

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

BY Frieze News Desk | 25 JAN 19

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

BY Jay Sanders | 23 JAN 19

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

11 DEC 18

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

04 DEC 18

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

03 DEC 18

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

30 NOV 18

The spectral presence of prisoners in everyday commodities 

BY Jackie Wang | 29 OCT 18

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

BY Evan Moffitt | 28 AUG 18

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

12 JUN 18