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Whitney lays off 15 more staff members, citing ‘extremely low’ attendance
Museum’s director notes that it may take until 2025 for tourists to return in force to New York
The Big Review—Working Together: the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop
An important show reflects a New York collective’s chronicles of Black life amid pervasive discrimination in the 1960s and 1970s
The biggest art exhibitions opening around the world in 2021
The new year's must-see shows include Vermeer and Botticelli blockbusters; major Jasper Johns and Yayoi Kusama retrospectives; and sweeping surveys on Iran, slavery and queer art
The story behind a student who discovered Edward Hopper's earliest paintings were copies
New research finds teenage artist's landscapes were based on a magazine for amateurs learning how to paint
Whitney postpones 2021 biennial by one year
Pandemic complicated organisational efforts by curators and stymied artists
Artists urge the Whitney to review its ethical practices following backlash over cancelled exhibition
An open letter calls for the Whitney to “commit to a year of action—of mobilisation and introspection”
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Whitney's prelude to David Hammons's Day's End to Sharona Franklin's decomposing work at King's Leap
Whitney Museum cancels show following artists' accusations of exploitation
Many black artists objected to an exhibition after they discovered their work had been acquired by the museum through discounted sales to benefit anti-racism causes
New York clears the way for the city's museums to reopen
MoMA, the Whitney, the Morgan, the American Folk Art Museum, the New Museum, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum announce plans to welcome the public, joining the Met and the New-York Historical Society
Three exhibitions to see in New York, London and online this weekend
From photographs of a pandemic-and-protest changed New York at the Museum of the City of New York to reflections on domesticity at Soft Opening's new London space
Reform or reset? How cultural institutions are facing a reckoning over racism
US and UK museums have been accused of tokenism, hypocrisy and fake solidarity for rushing to declare support for Black Lives Matter. Where do they go from here?
Three online exhibitions honouring Pride Month
From the history of discriminatory blood donation policies at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art to the history of the rainbow flag
Former Whitney vice chairman divests businesses marketing aggressive crowd-control technology
Corporation owned by Warren B. Kanders, whose links to tear gas led to his museum ouster, is selling off divisions associated with violent tactics
Art world workers join protests against injustice in New York—and aim to change racist systems in the culture sphere
Activists working at museums and galleries are bringing the fight for equality from the streets back into institutions
Three shows to see online this weekend
From a collaborative series between the New Museum and Rhizome to Modern Art Oxford's virtual tours
Three museum collections to explore from home this weekend
From the Centre Pompidou's #PompidouVIP to the Whitney's focus on recent acquisitions by living artists
What is the curator Chrissie Iles reading during lockdown?
The Whitney Museum of American Art curator delights in learning about the global culture of the Middle Ages and finds lessons for the future in a Cauleen Smith monograph
Whitney and New Museum lay off staff members as coronavirus economic fallout continues
Employee cuts come three weeks after institutions shut down
Arts organisations produce face masks and other medical equipment to help slow the spread of coronavirus
As museums donate protective supplies to medical centres during coronavirus crisis, grassroots efforts to make masks struggle to meet medical standards
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Cauleen Smith’s feminist films at the Whitney to Rodney McMillian’s conceptual landscapes at Petzel Gallery
Beyond the wall: a golden period of exchange between Mexican and US artists is revisited in new show
Whitney Museum exhibition will explore the enduring influence of artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros on US counterparts including Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Pope.L’s overdue retrospective at MoMA to meditations on the climate by Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Peter Halley’s day-glo funhouse to Rachel Harrison’s retrospective at the Whitney
Whitney Museum acquires 88 works by biennial 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
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Wayne Thiebaud’s little-known paintings of the Southwest to Shirin Neshat’s exhibition of Iranian women artists
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Betye Saar’s mysticism at MoMA to the first retrospective dedicated to conceptual photographer Duane Michals at the Morgan Library and Museum
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the LMCC’s Art Center inaugural season to William Powhida’s watercolour memes
Whitney Museum breaks ground on public installation by David Hammons
The museum celebrated the project, due to be completed in 2020, with a NYPD fireboat performance and specially commissioned jazz composition
Philanthropy, but at what price? US museums wake up to public's ethical concerns
Daniel Weiss, Adam Weinberg and other museum leaders speak out following the fallout from the resignation of the Whitney’s vice chairman and the ongoing Sackler affair
David Hammons’s public sculpture on the Hudson River will now be beachfront property
Gansevoort Peninsula, the site of Day’s End, will also include a 5.65-acre park, wetlands and kayak launch