The Whitney Museum of American Art

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From a retrospective of Josh Kline in New York to the ‘Made in LA’ biennial, here are the best stateside exhibitions of the year

BY Lisa Yin Zhang |

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 |

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

BY frieze |

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 |

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 |

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

BY Shiv Kotecha AND Dave McKenzie |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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

BY Jackson Arn |

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

BY Frieze News Desk |

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

BY Frieze News Desk |

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 |

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 |

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 

BY Jackie Wang |

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

BY Evan Moffitt |