Tag: Whitney Museum of American Art
Laura Poitras at the Whitney Museum
Laura Poitras has her first solo exhibition, Astro Noise at the Whitney Museum. The exhibit features immersive works of art that address the viewer with the scope of the mass surveillance by the National Security Agency using materials from Eric Snowden. The title of the work, Astro Noise, is a reference to whistleblower Eric Snowden’s […]
April 5, 2016
Whitney Museum to Debut New Building This Spring
The Whitney Museum of American Art has come home to Greenwich Village. The new Whitney Museum building is located at 99 Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District within walking distance from its original home at McDougal Alley. Founded in 1930 by sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum features one of the most impressive collections of […]
April 27, 2015
The Whitney Jeff Koons Makeover
Jeff Koons does everything big, from the size of his sculptures to the price tags on his artwork. The new exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art is no exception. “Jeff Koons: A Retrospective” takes over nearly the entirety of the Whitney’s Marcel Breuer building. It features the artist’s work from 1978 through the […]
September 8, 2014
2014 Whitney Biennial: Curators As Artists
The 2014 Whitney Biennial ended this week. It is the last to take place in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s building at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street. The Museum is moving downtown to its new location in the spring of 2015. The Museum’s new building was designed by architect Renzo Piano and is […]
May 26, 2014
The Whitney Biennial 2012 (New York City: March 1 to May 27, 2012)
Transparency, Institutional Critique and Performance Art dominate the 2012 Whitney Biennial. The curators of the Biennial attempt to take the pulse of the most current trends in American Art and put the snapshot on display in five floors of the Whitney Museum’s viewing space in New York City. Transparency is an art movement that continues […]
April 18, 2012