Whitney Biennial

The curator and writer meets emerging figures from China to Brazil on a personal trip around the section at Frieze New York 2024

From Graham Little’s meditations on beauty to Marie Watt’s expansive material exploration in her first travelling retrospective

The 2024 edition faces the challenges of past iterations while overcoming their many pitfalls with an impressive and beautiful showcase

Unmissable shows in New York this May include “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” The Whitney Biennial, and surveys of Marian Zazeela, Terry Fox and Joan Jonas

David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards’s biennial documents the power of the individual imagination within imperfect nation-state borders

In the age of ‘fake news’ Lukas Brasiskis analyses the moving-image artists recalibrating the optics on truth

In further news: Marisa Merz (1926-2019); and artists withdraw from Whitney Biennial

From the High Line Plinth to the Whitney Biennial and the Guggenheim, the artist’s sculptures celebrate the architecture of the Black female body

Most works carry a subtle political charge that amounts to a thoughtful critique of the injustice of our times

In further news: Met rejects Sackler gifts; Indigenous Womxn’s Collective protests Warren B. Kanders at Whitney Biennial opening

In further news: decline in arts industry hiring; call for MoMA to divest from private prison companies

In further news: backlash over Serpentine Pavilion architect’s unpaid interns; Whitney Museum hit by further protests

In further news: Decolonize This Place plans 9 weeks of protest ahead of Whitney Biennial; Rothko Chapel to undergo major restoration

The Iraqi-American artist withdrew in protest over the Whitney’s vice chairman Warren B. Kanders and his links to tear gas producers

In further news: documenta artists protest ‘profit-above-everything’ motive; Monir Museum opens in Tehran; Beijing artist on the run over eviction footage

From Hannah Black to Not Surprised, the changes demanded by today’s letter writers are still a long way from being assured

The Emmett Till painting saga continues; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi ‘should be postponed or downsized’ says former director

The work of filmmaker James N. Kienitz Wilkins on the occasion of his inclusion in the 2017 Whitney Biennial film programme

Trisha Brown has died, aged 80; two new appointments at London’s ICA; controversy at the Whitney

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA