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Time to look: Laura Owens’s self-reflective paintings demand considered attention

Visitors should not rush through the Los Angeles artist’s mid-career survey at New York’s Whitney Museum

The man without a face: Jimmie Durham at the Whitney Museum

Questions about identity abound in the travelling retrospective of the American artist’s work

Whitney makes the case for David Hammons’s ‘ghost monument’ on the Hudson River

The museum presented its proposal for the public work at a community board meeting Wednesday night—and early reactions were positive

78th Whitney Biennial expands definition of American art

Their largest edition yet spans the globe looking at what makes American art

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New museums: the rise of cryptic cathedrals of the cosmos

Charles Jencks revisits his article written for The Art Newspaper in 2000 to survey how museum architecture has evolved since the millennium

Whitney Museum turns over its column-free fifth floor to artists

The museum’s new programme Open Plan will present large-scale installations by Michael Heizer, Andrea Fraser and others

Frank Stella’s decline: on the artist's Whitney Museum retrospective

Critical conviction regarding Stella's work has fallen with the quality of the art

Whitney’s billionaire chairman of trustees steps down

Leonard Lauder’s decision to leave the institution coincides with launch of $680m fundraising campaign

A new international role for the Whitney under Adam Weinberg

The museum's new director has assembled his curatorial team and is preparing to steer it on a radical new course

Eva Hesse at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

Gallery shows of Hesse’s fragile sculptures are rare

What are museums doing to collect, store and show internet art?

Ossian Ward investigates European and US perspectives and the issues of conservation and ownership

The body under scrutiny: Interview with Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith responds to recent attacks on her work by Met director Philippe de Montebello

Castello di Rivoli to host its second exhibition of American art this year

“Sunshine and noir” explores the dramatic contrasts of Los Angeles as seen through the art produced there over the past forty years

New Warhol exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum

The major show chronicles the many faces of Warhol's fascination with fame

Haring recognised at last, climbing from subway to museum

On the one hand, official recognition, on the other, the problem of fakes

The Serpentine asks how good was Jean-Michel Basquiat, really?

The artist's complicated oeuvre makes it hard to judge if some works are forged - or if instead he was just having an off day

The smoking dilemma: will Philip Morris's art support outlive its critics?

The tobacco giant remains one of the most important private funders of the arts in the US

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The Warhol museum opens this month

At 83,000 square feet it is bigger than the Whitney

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Hiring out the collection: the Whitney does, MoMA doesn’t

Collection leasing provides a fundraising alternative for some museums, and a surrogate permanent collection for others

First American Basquiat retrospective to be held at the Whitney

Whitney director, David Ross, gambles on his political correctness

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Philip Morris Companies Inc. receives award for their continued sponsorship of art from The Whitney Museum of American Art

The selection of the tobacco corporation as first winner is testament to its long-term relationship with the museum