The 82nd edition of the most closely-watched recurring exhibition in the United States will open in spring 2026

The influential American pioneer produced a ground-breaking body of work in partnership with his wife, Kira Perov, over more than 45 years

Plus, an analysis of our museum visitor figures survey and a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Whitney Museum’s flagship contemporary art showcase turns on questions of identity, authenticity and mutability, which play out across more than a handful of interrelated topics

The biennial’s curators were unaware of the statement in a work by Demian DinéYazhi’ prior to the exhibition preview

Compensating participants for group exhibitions is an important but taboo subject, as is the fee amount institutions provide

The exhibition, titled “Even Better Than the Real Thing” and co-curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, will feature works by 69 artists and two collectives

The additional staff will programme sound art, film and performance events

After a 2022 Biennial curated entirely in-house, the Whitney has selected one staff member, Iles, and an independent curator, Onli, to organise the exhibition’s 81st edition

The prize, given to one artist in every edition of the Whitney Biennial, comes with a $100,000 check

The artist, who has been making work for nearly 40 years, has lately achieved several career milestones

From Genesis P-Orridge at Pioneer Works to Louise Bourgeois at the Met, our pick of the best exhibitions in the city this week

Works by Alfredo Jaar, Dave McKenzie and the collective Moved by the Motion are among the most powerful in the crowded exhibition

Plus, the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories opens in Washington and Raphael's late self-portrait at London's National Gallery

The 2022 edition of the exhibition includes the work of four Indigenous artists from the US and Canada

The latest iteration of the Whitney Museum's closely-watched exhibition is structured around a contrast between light and dark, but a few motifs provide alternate ways of navigating the massive show

The artist commemorates the anonymous victims of Covid-19 buried on Hart Island

Guests arriving at Tuesday’s reception were handed leaflets explaining the current state of negotiations between the newly formed union and museum administration

The exhibition’s 80th iteration, originally scheduled for 2021, will open on 6 April with its own official symbol

Pandemic complicated organisational efforts by curators and stymied artists

Additions to the collection include a painting by one of the eight artists who threatened to pull their art from display in protest against vice chairman Warren Kanders

From the LMCC’s Art Center inaugural season to William Powhida’s watercolour memes

His company Safariland has been criticised for manufacturing tear gas canisters that have been used on asylum seekers along the US-Mexico border

The move follows on-going calls for the resignation of the museum board's vice chairman

The New York-based artist Xaviera Simmons responds to art critics who thought the 2019 Whitney Biennial was "not radical enough"

After the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's sale of its Rothko, we discuss the principles that guide deaccessioning in the US and speak to activists about the Whitney vice-chairman's problematic link to a weapons manufacturer

Despite a history of protest and a very present controversy at the museum, this year’s survey of American contemporary art is missing a radical spirit

The Whitney Museum has turned to two in-house curators to put together a show that celebrates diversity in American art—but as in 2017, the biennial is already mired in controversy

Letter cites Warren B. Kanders's role in company that manufactured tear gas used at US border

With three presentations scheduled this spring in New York, the Brooklyn-based artist talks about her commitment to representing the experience of black women