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  1. art review
    What to See and What to Skip at the Whitney BiennialJerry Saltz searches for the real thing at the museum’s latest survey of contemporary art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  2. profile
    Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Can’t Believe She’s Still the FirstHer new Whitney retrospective is the only one so far to honor a Native American artist. She’s not doing it alone: “My community comes with me.”
    By Joshua Hunt
  3. best of 2022
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2022Gonzo quilting, Mayan sculpture, and one wild, egalitarian group show made this a great year to hit the galleries.
    By Jerry Saltz
  4. art review
    The Whitney Biennial Falters OnThe 2022 show has just enough high points to get you through it — including three stunning Charles Ray sculptures.
    By Jerry Saltz
  5. best of 2021
    The Best New York Art Shows of 2021The art world has changed forever. But New York galleries still rule.
    By Jerry Saltz
  6. art
    Jasper Johns and MeThe artist who invented contemporary art also changed my life.
    By Jerry Saltz
  7. fall preview 2021
    10 Must-See Art Shows to Catch This FallJerry Saltz on his most anticipated New York museum shows — from Jasper Johns at the Whitney to the Bronx Museum’s Biennial.
    By Jerry Saltz
  8. back catalogue
    Artist Dawoud Bey on 6 of His Photos That Pushed His Work ForwardThe photographer opens up about what it took to make some of his most iconic images, ahead of his upcoming Whitney retrospective.
    As told to Sasha Bonét
  9. art
    Bringing the Beauty OutFor the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, the moment was always now.
    By Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa
  10. exhibitions
    Whitney Cancels Exhibition After Criticism of Acquisition of Black Artists’ WorkOne artist said the museum bought his work for $100.
    By Justin Curto
  11. art
    Salman Toor’s Queer RococoThe artist lives, and paints, between worlds — Lahore, Pakistan and New York.
    By Carl Swanson
  12. best of 2018
    Jerry Saltz’s 10 Best Art Shows of 2018Including an abstract pioneer and presidential portraiture.
    By Jerry Saltz
  13. art
    Andy Warhol’s Drawings of Shoes And Boys Tells Us Everything About HimA glimpse of the artist’s pre-fame work.
    By Carl Swanson
  14. appreciations
    Everything You Wanted to Know About Andy Warhol in Eight WorksAn appreciation of an American revolutionary, ahead of the Whitney’s can’t-miss new retrospective.
    By Jerry Saltz
  15. The Whitney Rejected This Masterpiece SculptureThe sculpture is not only a 21st-century masterpiece, it embodies so much of America’s past and current struggles that had it been placed in the front of this museum at this time, it might have been a beacon, a lightning rod, a second Statue of Liberty.
    By Jerry Saltz
  16. art
    5 Provocative 1930s Anti-Lynching Prints“The terror in the man’s eyes conveys the persistent fears of black Americans in the South during the 1930s.”
    By Kyle Chayka
  17. The New Whitney Building Is OpenThe architect mistakes virtue for personality.
    By Justin Davidson
  18. Jerry Saltz on the New Whitney MuseumHow the museum might just solve the impossible problem of contemporary art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  19. Music to Art Ears at the WhitneyBlues for Smoke takes center stage at the Whitney Museum of American Art
  20. the industry
    Whitney on the Cusp: The Key to the Museum’s Expansion DowntownIts current shows are great. But the institution must keep one priority in mind as they plan their second location.
    By Jerry Saltz
  21. party lines
    Emilie de Ravin at the Whitney Art PartyPlus: Selita Ebanks, Jennifer Esposito, Maggie Grace …
    By Bennett Marcus
  22. moves
    Whitney Museum to Move to Meatpacking District in 2015’Downtown is a new city, a new nation.’
    By Josh Duboff
  23. equal-arty
    Saltz on Art’s Triumph: Women Win Slim Majority in Next Whitney BiennialThis will prove once and for all that women artists are no better and no worse than their male counterparts.
    By Jerry Saltz
  24. party lines
    Lohan, Donatella, and Barton at the Whitney Gala“My kind of art has always been film, that’s my primary interest, and everything else is just a hobby.”
    By Bennett Marcus
  25. Francesco Bonami Selected to Curate the Whitney’s 2010 BiennialHe’ll be co-curating alongside Gary Carrion-Murayari.
    By Alexandra Peers
  26. the take
    Video: Jerry Saltz Tours the Whitney BiennialNew York art critic Jerry Saltz walks us through the highlights.
  27. news reel
    The Whitney Biennial: Behind Eduardo Sarabia’s Tequila BarIs tequila art?
  28. news reel
    Opening Night at the Whitney Biennial: The Art Crowd Is Not ImpressedIt was hip to be squared at last night’s opening.
  29. news reel
    Sonic Youth Art Exhibit Coming to the Whitney?The band plans to perform at each museum as well.
  30. news reel
    Chuck Close at His Gala Party: Eff You Every MuchWith a cameo from an art-grubbing Michael Ovitz!
  31. art candy
    The Multitasking BuddhaRudolf Stingel, the art critics’ darling whose highly anticipated retrospective opened this weekend at the Whitney, has a funny way of exploring artistic process. While he’s best known for his colossal minimalist constructions (Styrofoam “canvases,” transformative installations — both of which are on view at the Whitney), we kind of like the look of this multitasking Buddha: a tranquil (though perhaps maniacal) take on artistic apprenticeship.
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