Talk To Me: Flarf vs Conceptual Writing
There is still an American Avant-Garde in poetry!As part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at the Whitney Museum, poet Kenneth Goldsmith organized a panel of eight poets associated with...
View ArticleI Wanna Wake Up In a Museum That Never Sleeps
There are a lot of places that you could find yourself in New York City at one o'clock in the morning. A museum isn't generally one of them.But there I was on Wednesday night (or was it Thursday...
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Gig Alerts: High Places
High Places"Can't Feel Nothing (HP Remix)"Playing FRIDAY at: Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Ave., U.E.S.)Get: Tickets FREE (with museum admission) | DirectionsMary Pearson and Rob Barber...
View ArticleNo Cover: Toro Y Moi
Glo-fi tunesmith Toro Y Moi plugged-in for The Whitney Live concert series on July 2. You can stream the entire set right here.Before You Press PlayHometown: Columbia, South CarolinaThe Facts: Toro Y...
View ArticleElliott Sharp and Dither Want Audience Participation, in Chalk
The ever-provocative guitarist/saxophonist/composer Elliott Sharp teams up with the New York-based Dither guitar quartet to perform at the Whitney Museum on Friday night August 13 at 7 p.m. They will...
View ArticleDatebook: Aug. 12, 2010
A summer group show in Chelsea lampoons our obsession with youth, torture memos inspire an installation at The Whitney, artists play with metal building blocks in SoHo, and a Weimar-era painter gets a...
View ArticleElliott Sharp and Dither Quartet
Elliott Sharp and Dither performing Graffiti Composition by Christian Marclay:On Friday, August 13, Q2 asked New York's community of adventurous music lovers to react to -- and document via Q2's...
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Gig Alert: DJ /rupture
Matty G, DJ /rupture and Lloop"Layin in Bed/Overture Watermelon City" (feat. Elizabeth Alexander)Playing FRIDAY at: Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Ave., U.E.S.)Get: Tickets (Free with...
View ArticleDatebook: Sep. 2, 2010
Road trip pictures at the Whitney, propaganda at MoMA, and a monochrome wall of commissioned graffiti in downtown Manhattan. This week's Datebook is a guide to Labor Day weekend artsiness.Lee...
View ArticleChristian Marclay: Festival
On Sunday, September 19 at 2 p.m., Cued Up on Q2 launches its Fall Season with performances from the Whitney Museum's Christian Marclay: Festival, a retrospective for the iconoclastic turntablist,...
View ArticleThis Week: Must See Arts in the City
Edward Hopper at the Whitney, ghostly silhouettes in Chelsea, and dance at the Judson Memorial Church. Here's WNYC's guide to what's happening now.Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time, at the...
View ArticleAt the Whitney: It's a Small World
A pair of men's briefs barely bigger than a silver dollar. Racks of suits barely two feet tall. Vitrines full of thousands of handmade ceramics—none of them bigger than a thimble.In a wonderfully...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
An exhibit that explores the art of painting and identity at the Whitney, extraordinary pre-Columbian tunics at the Met, quirky illustrations at the Jewish Museum and a temporary installation at an...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
The Whitney Museum takes a trip back to the early 20th century, Willem de Kooning's figures go on view at Pace, a British street art gets a solo in Brooklyn and an unheralded African-American landscape...
View ArticleMuseums on the Move
New York Times cultural reporter Robin Pogrebin discusses the plans for MOMA to take over the midtown Folk Art Museum space and for the Met to take over the Whitney's Madison Ave building.
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Hacked video games and remixed Internet videos at the Whitney, topless human-animal dancers at Jonathan Levine, a look at life in Cuba at Marlborough and some '60s comix psychedelia at Andrew Edlin....
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
The New York photographs of an important Chinese artist and critic, the caricatures and paintings of a German-American polymath and lots and lots of mosh pits -- not to mention a 600-lb. squid. It's...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Dancing on ladders in the Meatpacking District, more than half a century of urban redevelopment at MoMA, European artists showing naughty bits on the Lower East Side and architectural sculpture meets...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
David Smith cubes and art works that explore the boundary between the real and the imagined at the Whitney, psychedelic paintings that incorporate the human figure at Dodge Gallery, Edward Sorel's...
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Sherrie Levine's 'Mayhem': A Retrospective of The Original Fake at The Whitney
What is "original" and "unoriginal" art? Does an art object only qualify as authentic if it’s made by the human hand? Does the context in which one sees an image change its meaning? Why is a photograph...
View ArticleGig Alert: Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran
Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran"Break Down" (by Jason Moran)Playing on Wednesday at Whitney Museum(945 Madison Avenue at 75th St, U.E.S.)Get: Tickets (Free with museum admission) | Directions...
View ArticleThe Hundred-Year-Old Modern Art Show That Changed Everything
Next week marks the 100th anniversary of the 1913 "International Exhibition of Modern Art," better known as the Armory Show — the art show that changed everything. The Armory Show was the first large...
View ArticleWhitney Museum Downtown Puts Art on the Terrace
After two years of construction, the Whitney Museum of American Art is showing off its new downtown home. The edgy new building designed by Renzo Piano sits on Gansevoort Street between West Street and...
View ArticleRobert Indiana's Complicated LOVE Affair
On this week's Weekend Edition, Robert Indiana called his iconic LOVE image 'a terrible mistake', but in 1971 he seemed much more optimistic about the work's influence on his career. Listen to Indiana...
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Jeff Koons, the Inflation Artist
Jeff Koons sells his work for more than any other American living artist. And now he's the first to fill nearly the entire Whitney Museum by himself.Koons' major retrospective is his first in New York...
View ArticleDavid Brooks; Marijuana Business Lessons; The New Whitney
New York Times columnist David Brooks talks about the value of "eulogy virtues" over "resume virtues." Plus: New York Magazine critics Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson preview the new Whitney Museum; a...
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Whitney Museum to Get Its First Dedicated Performance Space
Feasts for the eye can be found at every turn in the Whitney Museum of American Art's new downtown space: six floors of column-less galleries, four outdoor terraces, several airy reading rooms and a...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: David Brooks, Big Weed & the New Whitney Museum
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.David Brooks (First) | How to Sell (Legal) Pot (Starts at 49:12) | The New Whitney Museum (Starts at 1:20:37)If you don't subscribe...
View ArticleMet Museum to Expand Concerts to New Breuer Building
The revolving doors of the museum concert world have been in full spin lately, as the Metropolitan Museum of Art plans to take over the Whitney Museum of American Art's old building on Madison Avenue,...
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The Future Looks Shiny, Big and Expensive
The future of museums looks shiny and big. At least from the perspective of the new Whitney Museum of American Art.The museum opened its new home on May 1st at the south of the High Line park, and it’s...
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If You're An Artist, It Pays to be in New York City
Even those of us enamored of this city know that sometimes New York is just too New York-y. The art world, for instance, tends to favor local painting and sculpture over imports from the west — west of...
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A New Home, and New Exhibit, at the Whitney
Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Donna De Salvo, Deputy Director for International Initiatives and Senior Curator at the Whitney, discuss the...
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Hanging with Frank Stella
Frank Stella, who is 79, got up on a podium to make some brief comments at his Whitney Museum opening this week. He said he had a great time these past few weeks installing his current retrospective....
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Review: Laura Poitras Exposes a New Secret: Her Art
Is Laura Poitras an artist? The question might seem like the height of irrelevance. She is, after all, a hugely acclaimed documentary filmmaker. Her Oscar-winning “Citizenfour” (2014) followed Edward...
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Abstract Meets Pop Culture in Stuart Davis' Iconic Art
Art historian and curator Barbara Haskell discusses “Stuart Davis: In Full Swing” now on view at the Whitney Museum (99 Gansevoort Street) through September 25th. The exhibit focuses on Davis’s later...
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Review: Carmen Herrera is No Grandma Moses, Which Is a Good Thing
If you’ve never heard of Carmen Herrera, a Cuban-born, New York painter who happens to be 101-years-old, you can be forgiven. Virtually no one has seen her work in depth. She did not sell her first...
View ArticleTastemaker in Chief
President Obama’s election represented a big moment of hope for the arts community, but has he lived up to their expectations? As the Obama administration comes to an end, Kurt looks back on the past...
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Review: The Whitney Showcases The Painting of the ‘80s
When the Whitney Museum of American Art re-opened in 2015 with a humongous and fascinating survey of its permanent collection, there were, inevitably, some omissions. Where was Ross Bleckner, for...
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Review: Finally, a Whitney Biennial You Can’t Bash
The Whitney Biennial has traditionally been known as the show that everyone loves to hate. But the current edition, which opens today, deserves to be regarded as the show that everyone loves to love....
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...
View ArticleReview: Calder Without the Circus
Alexander Calder is, to my mind, America’s greatest-ever sculptor, but he suffers from overfamiliarity. Everyone knows his light-as-air mobile, and his red-painted behemoths in public plazas across the...
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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...
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Review: The Whitney’s Museum New Fun Couple
Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” is almost as famous as the Mona Lisa, which is not to say that it’s a painting about a smile. To the contrary, it shows what appears to be a glowering, bespectacled...
View ArticleThe Personal and the Political
The days of summer are numbered, but, as WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, a notable Whitney Museum summer exhibit will be on view for another month. More, in this edition of Fishko Files.History Keeps Me...
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Protest at the Whitney Museum: 'Sage Is Medicine. Tear Gas Is Poison.'
Protesters with the group "Decolonize This Place" staged a demonstration at the Whitney Museum on Sunday afternoon, calling for a museum board member to step down. They also sought to draw attention to...
View ArticleJLin at The Whitney Museum
JLin at The Whitney MuseumTickets: $10-12. Shows at 6, 7, 8 pm.The producer known as Jlin is a rare woman in a part of the music world that is still overwhelmingly male. More to the point, she is one...
View ArticleWarhol's Work
So much of the art created by Andy Warhol is familiar, and as WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, we think we know all about him. But a major retrospective of Warhol's vast body of work is almost over at the...
View ArticleThe Personal and the Political (2020)
The artist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was recently honored with a quilt created by friends and admirers in his memory. Wojnarowicz, who made art that captured his own decline during the AIDS crisis,...
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Last Chance!: Edward Hopper's New York
This week hear about some soon-to-close art shows around town. Today: Kim Conaty, curator of drawings and prints at the Whitney Museum, talks about the Hopper show at the Whitney, closing March 5,...
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