Whitney Museum of American Art
museum
Whitney Museum vice chairman Warren Kanders steps down after months of protests
His company Safariland has been criticised for manufacturing tear gas canisters that have been used on asylum seekers along the US-Mexico border
Four artists withdraw their work from the Whitney Biennial
The move follows on-going calls for the resignation of the museum board's vice chairman
Donna De Salvo steps down as Whitney senior curator
After organising popular shows like a Warhol retrospective, she resigns to “pursue other interests’’
Should museums sell works of art? Plus, activism at the Whitney Biennial
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
Everything is good at the Whitney Biennial but nothing makes a difference
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
Whitney Biennial aims to focus on artists but—as protests mount—it cannot escape politics
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
Many Whitney Biennial artists sign letter calling for museum vice chairman's removal
Letter cites Warren B. Kanders's role in company that manufactured tear gas used at US border
Top six acquisitions of the month
Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a totemic Klansman to the art of colonial Latin America
'I stand in solidarity with the staff and say no': Michael Rakowitz on why he turned down the Whitney Biennial
Recent controversies over the museum's board prompt artist to question participation in this year's event
Whitney acquires Abstract Expressionist painting by Norman Lewis
The museum will show the underrecognised African American artist's work alongside pieces by his contemporaries
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Two venues of Andy Warhol, and young painter Theodora Allen's ancient symbolism
Essential viewing: Warhol from A to B and Back Again at New York’s Whitney Museum
The sprawling show is a needed revisit for those who remember Warhol as a living, brilliant savant, taste-maker and oddball
The recent protests at the Whitney show museum trustees’ dealings cannot be ignored
The same old arguments in favour of ignoring the business dealings of trustees, of pretending museum programming can function independently of those funding it, cannot stand for long
2018: the year in review
Our London and New York teams ponder 2018's biggest art stories. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Protesters stream into Whitney, calling for removal of board vice chairman
They assailed the trustee's business ties to the tear gas fired by US border agents
Whitney staff members assail vice chairman’s business tie to tear gas attacks at US border
In a letter, they express “outrage” over a connection to a military and law enforcement supplier
Andy Warhol (part one): Whitney curator Donna De Salvo on the key moments of the king of Pop art's career
From his early life as a commercial artist to his celebrity portraits, as well as his relationship with a certain Donald Trump. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Andy Warhol for the Instagram age: huge retrospective opens at the Whitney in New York
Exhibition spanning four decades looks to introduce the king of Pop art to the social media generation
Is Warhol to blame for Trump? Pop pioneer's work touches on many issues facing America today
“It’s a very potent time to raise many of these issues,” says curator of the Warhol survey opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Be dazzled by Mary Corse's light at the Whitney or catch the Met's Heavenly Bodies before it closes
Culture Pass has New Yorkers reaching for their library cards—but demand is exceeding supply
New scheme offering free tickets to some of the city’s most popular museums had thousands of responses
David Wojnarowicz was a poet, a fighter, a hustler, a survivor
The many sides of a complicated artist are explored with freshness, polish, and insight in the Whitney Museum’s retrospective
David Wojnarowicz’s furiously prolific but short-lived career explored in major show
As US culture wars reignite, the Whitney Museum stages a timely exhibition of New York’s finest firebrand
Public review open for David Hammons’s Day’s End proposal
The “ghost monument” in Hudson River Park would be paid for and maintained by the Whitney Museum
Whitney’s Warhol: new blockbuster show to reinvent artist for the Instagram age
Museum’s director Adam Weinberg explains why exhibition took eight years to realise and why it will be "selfie-central"
Frieze Artist Award winner Kapwani Kiwanga takes on colonialism
Imposing open-air work made of African farming fabric opens at New York fair this week
History repeating itself? Three major US shows look at 1930s art and political climate
Exhibitions of Grant Wood, Precisionism and interwar Europe draw parallels with today
The ethics of appropriation
Can art represent the culture of marginalised groups without exploiting them? Jillian Steinhauer investigates