The 2008 whitney biennial opens at the whitney museum of american art, 945 madison avenue at 75th street, on march 6, and runs through june 1, 2008. Probably the best thing about the whitney biennial is its website with countless hyperlinks to video interviews and other behind the scenes kind of information. For the first time the biennial will extend beyond the museum to park avenue. This is a complete list of whitney biennial curators who have curated or are scheduled to curate the whitney biennial exhibitions at the whitney museum of american art in new york city, united states. The whitney biennial 2008 opens today and runs through june 1. You devote yourself to a highpressure, immensely complicated project for months and months, and then the critics are done with it in a moment. She is cocurator of the 2008 whitney biennial about paul holdengraber. Mar 28, 2008 this book accompanies the 2008 biennial of the whitney museum of american art, always a highly anticipated event in the art world. The whitney biennial whitney museum of american art.
Working closely with artists, writers, technologists, and. Inaugurated by gertrude vanderbilt whitney in 1932, the whitney s biennial exhibitions have received acclaim, stirred controversy, and unfailingly fostered artistic innovation and diversity. Overall, this biennial feels much less overtly political, perhaps because it favors the progressive over the reactionary. What happens to whitney biennial curators after the shows.
Before the opening curators shamim momin and henriette huldisch made their way through the press, spreading the word. The whitney has resigned to classifying it in a catchall pluralism in which there simply is so many voices out there under so many disciplines and influences that it cannot be herded into an umbrella term. Some introductory comments on the 2008 whitney biennial the biennial, more than most groupings of art inside of museums and galleries, contains work that rubs elbows with other work, everything bumping up against everything else, plus the museumgoers, adrift in this tight maze, nearly bumping up against each other. Admirably, the whitney has commissioned a lot of the works on show, giving artists as well as viewers a chance to see something new. The whitney biennial has been criticized for its inclusion of controversial political and social art. Eduardo sarabias work in the whitney biennial detail of his sculpture supply closet stands out in a depressed biennial. Featuring work by emerging and established american artists, the 200.
Whitney biennial 2008 by falconer, morgan art monthly. Our favorite visionary designer fritz haeg is at it once again, this. This years whitney biennial is upstaged by a thrilling new venue. By exploring the networks that exist among contemporary artists and the work they create, the biennial characterizes the state of american art today. Marina rosenfeld teenage lontano 2008 whitney biennial on. This book accompanies the 2006 biennial of the whitney museum of american art. With 55 artists, we were advised, it would be half the. The biennial will take up most of the whitney museum and also spill over into the park avenue armory for several weeks, opening up many of. This is an incomplete list of whitney biennial artists selected for the whitney biennial. Adrian searle negotiates new yorks biggest group show, and finds peace in a field in kansas.
Below, explore an overview of the exhibition, or look at 360degree panoramic photographs of the third floor, fourth floor and an installation. It is a fragile thing and a work in progressor a work becoming undone. Mar 10, 2017 in a sociological, structural way, the whitney biennial is a chance to rewire how the museum works, how you build your walls, how you ask an audience to engage with it, which has really broadened my thinking, says sanders, who was hired as the museums first fullfledged curator of performance after the biennial. The 2014 whitney biennial is the last one in the museums marcel breuer building. The 2006 whitney biennial catalogue, with 800 pages and more than 200 images, will use an innovative book format in order to present a remarkable artists section, draw me a sheep. The 2008 whitney biennial and the failure of an empire the. Momin, associate curator at the whitney and branch. Since 2007, triple canopy has advanced a model for publication that encompasses digital works of art and literature, public conversations, exhibitions, and books. Mar 11, 2008 the 2008 whitney biennial and the failure of an empire. Whitney biennial, which opens at the whitney museum of american art, 945. From 2001 to 2008, huldisch was an assistant curator at the whitney, where she cocurated the 2008 whitney biennial with shamim m. Whitney biennial 2008 whitney museum of american art. Mar 06, 2008 whitney biennial 2008 this year, the biennial fills not only three floors of the museum but also much of the park avenue armory. Whitney museum of american art, 1989 art, american.
Momin and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Feb 26, 2010 in what felt like a preemptive effort at damage control, the whitney museum of american art did everything to underpitch its 2010 biennial. March 2008, whitney biennial wm whitehot magazine of. His new ongoing series of projects called animal estates will debut at the whitney biennial in 2008 with a commissioned installation in front of the museum. Helping the whitney museum expand the 2008 biennial the. This years biennial at the whitney museum of art in new york features fewer artists than past shows, and many of them have adopted a minimalist attitude with their works.
Whitney biennial 2008 originally posted by the bus tb. This is not a shopping list for a boy scout adventure but a small sampling of materials that will turn up at the 2008 whitney biennial when it opens on thursday. Animal estates fritz haeg whitney biennial 2008 art ecology model homes animal habitat dwellings species resettlement 2 of 5. He was nominated for the turner prize in 1994, and was included in the 2006 whitney biennial. In 2010, his work was included in the momas 25th anniversary new photography exhibit. Over the years the whitney biennial has gone from anointing american artists to defining the very idea of american art. This model hinges on the development of publishing systems that incorporate networked forms of production and circulation. This 74th incarnation promises to be more than the usual loveitorhateit survey of contemporary art. James drake, the first monograph devoted to the artist. The 2008 biennial will be the 74th in the series of whitney annual and biennial exhibitions held since 1932, the same year. It features some 85 artists and collectives working in many media and employing a variety of methods and practices. In 1987, the guerrilla girls, a collective of feminist artists, protested the biennial on grounds of. As part of the 2008 whitney biennial and with support from the art production fund, pfahler and voluptuous horror gave a performance in the park avenue armorys drill hall on 14 march 2008.
The 2008 edition took over the park avenue armory as a space for performance and installation art. Since its founding in 1932, the biennial has evolved into the whitney s signature exhibition as well as the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the united states today. Launched in spring 2008, whitney focus was a video series featuring interviews with artists and curators, including 2008 whitney biennial curators henriette huldisch and shamim m. The 2008 whitney biennial nyablog new york art beat. In amy granat and drew heitzlers 2007 doublescreen film, t. As the amazon product description indicates, the book consists of two parts, a record of the current 2010 biennial and a look back at previous biennials and before them annuals, back to. Martins school of art in 1983 and the chelsea school of art in 1990. Whitney biennial 2008 whitney museum of american art new york march 6 to june 1 the most transporting moment of my visit to the 74th whitney biennialand i had to wait for itcame by chance on the second floor of the seventh regiment armory on park avenue, quarters commandeered by the biennial for a few weeks in march as a spillover venue and performance space. A biennial is an exercise in imposing temporary order onto a situation that is, essentially, out of control. Whitney biennial 2008 so i think im checking out the 2008 whitney biennial over the weekend. Due to terrible work problems, and a major family illness mao has not yet made it over to the 2008 whitney biennial we just hate it when life gets in the way of art. Mar 07, 2008 advertisements for the 2008 whitney biennial promise a show that will tell us where american art stands today, although we basically already know. Free pdf npr the trials and triumphs of national public radio book online. An internationally acclaimed artist whose work has been honored with inclusion in both the venice biennale and the whitney biennial, james drake has explored political, social, and universal themes through the media of sculpture, video, installation, photography, and drawing.
Whitney biennial 2008 this year, the biennial fills not only three floors of the museum but also much of the park avenue armory. As artists withdraw from the whitney biennial over kanders controversy, others refuse the call to boycott. Everyday materials such as plywood stand out amid the cardboardlike partitions of the gallery. Mar 01, 2010 greens piece for the whitney biennial, arztliche zimmergymnastik 2008, is an 80minute video wherein 16 men act out holistiic therapeutic exercises devised by dr. This book accompanies the 2008 biennial of the whitney museum of american art, always a highly anticipated event in the art world. The 2008 whitney biennial is smaller and quieter than in previous years, despite its extension to the armory building. And while its general nyc art critic sport to bash the biennial so far everything weve heard is pretty good, and certainly much better than the 2006 whitney biennial. The 2008 biennial seeks to reveal the links among these seemingly disparate and sometimes ephemeral practices. Art production fund projects whitney biennial 2008.
James drake by james drake the university of texas press. Mar 04, 2008 helping the whitney museum expand the 2008 biennial. Oct 03, 2008 park avenue armory, new york 6 march 1 june 2008 entering the whitney biennial 2008 at the park avenue armory, i overheard artist fritz haeg speaking to a group sitting on the floor. Paul holdengraber is the director of public programs now known as live from the nypl for the research libraries of the new york public library. Apr 02, 2008 with philadelphia artists conspicuously absent, the whitney biennial is a total downer. The 2008 biennial, the seventyfourth in the series of whitney annual and biennial exhibitions held since 1932, presents eightyone artists working at a time when art production is above all characterized by heterogeneity and dispersal. So as i focused on that, i read the paper every day, my favorite section being the art section, which comes out in the times daily. This years whitney biennial, the most poetic i can remember, feels mildly unhappy and restlessly alert. This book accompanies the 2008 biennial of the whitney museum.
Its not as crazy as it might seemtheyve crashed the whitney biennial and rockefeller center in backtoback. Unlike the 2006 iteration, the latest whitney biennial did not have a title or an explicit theme. Inaugurated by gertrude vanderbilt whitney in 1932, the whitneys biennial exhibitions have received acclaim, stirred controversy, and unfailingly fostered artistic innovation and diversity. May 06, 2008 2008 whitney biennial curators henriette huldisch and shamim m. The whitney biennial often extends to sculpture exhibitions in central park. March 6 june 1 from march 623, the biennial extends to park avenue armory.
A whitney museum of american art book since 1932, the whitney museums biennial exhibitions have. The whitney biennial began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973. April 2008, whitney biennial 2008 whitehot magazine of. The video on the swiss but in new york based olaf breuning. The curatorial team for the 2008 whitney biennial has selected 81 artists for the exhibition, which opens at the whitney museum of american art, 945 madison avenue at 75th street, on march 6, and runs through june 1, 2008. Explore whitney biennial 2008 s 393 photos on flickr. If it were a sound, it would be the muttering of a cast awaiting the inexplicably delayed. First i turn to the most valuable piece of information the times has for ne artists of all kinds, and that is arts brief on page two of the art section. The 2008 edition is, by contrast, an unglamorous, even prosaic affair. Overall, the 2008 whitney biennial brings together artists of different sensibilities and political views in a very ambitious exhibition. Born in edinburgh in 1959, peter doig was raised in canada and spent two decades in london before moving to trinidad, where he now lives and works. These performances included her works actressocracy and whitney live. This book accompanies the 2008 biennial of the whitney museum of american art.
Apr 07, 2008 2008 whitney biennial artist walead beshty discusses his photographs of the former iraqi embassy to the former east germany two nations that no longer exist and the complex ideas behind them. As artists withdraw from the whitney biennial over kanders. The 2008 whitney biennial and the failure of an empire. Walking away from the 2002 whitney biennial, i had mixed feelings of the state of contemporary art. Just over 80 works sparsely fill the three floors of the impressive museum. The whitney biennial is the longestrunning survey of american art, and has been a hallmark of the museum since 1932. Whitney biennial 2008 installation view press release ruben ochoas monumental use of building materials in sculpture, photography, and public interventions deconstructs a constructionworker aesthetic by investigating urban locations under contention. Adrian searle on this years whitney biennial the guardian. This book includes a section which contains a short text that accompanies reproductions of each artists work and presents documentation of the artists diverse methods and practices as represented in the biennial exhibition. I want the piece to be as live and ephemeral and immaterial as possible. Accompanies the 2008 biennial of the whitney museum of american art. Whitney biennial 2008 published in artartart magazine, issue 3 the armory building during the whitney biennial, photo by jon meyer see this flickr set for more photos. It features some 99 artists and collectives working in many media and employing a variety of methods and practices. The first performance was commissioned and presented by the whitney museum for the whitney biennial exhibition 2008, and coproduced by art production fund, with acoustical engineering by bob bielecki and arup acoustics.