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...main attraction at this year's Whitney Biennial is a black curtain or, more accurately, what is hidden behind it. To this day, a uniformed guard is stationed outside Hans Haacke's "Sanitation" in anticipation of a mob. Story has it that during the early days of the Biennial, the guard did indeed earn his keep, but today, as disinterested museum-goers walk briskly by, he looks superfluous, if not ornamental...
...exhibition catalogue, embodies this trend. Yet the media buzz prior to the opening of the Biennial was not about Aitken or other noteworthy Biennial participants, but about "Sanitation." Haacke's piece has caused a virtual spectacle that has grown to involve New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Whitney Museum and the artist himself. Late last year, Giuliani cut the Brooklyn Museum's funding because it decided to show, as part of an exhibit called Sensation, Chris Ofili's controversial painting of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung and speckled with pornography. "Sanitation" champions artistic expression in the face...
...enough to provoke considerable response. As Haacke himself puts it, "There's been a tremendous increase in the number of museum visitors, but that has to do with entertainment value. I don't think it has to do with a deeper interest in art." And this year at the Whitney, how could...
...goal when you're a diva-in-training is to be known eventually to the public at large by your first name alone. Surnames are for the little people--you know, people like McCartney and Dylan and whatnot. Divas--Aretha, Mariah, Whitney, Sisqo--have no need of surnames. So up-and-coming R.-and-B. singer Mya (much like one of her contemporaries, Aaliyah) is already a bit ahead of the game. She doesn't use her last name, Harrison, professionally. Yes, she's on her way to divadom...
Shaner and freshman Whitney Miller scored a pair nine seconds apart, sophomore Mini Hammerberg and Shaner connected 11 seconds apart, and Smith scored nine seconds into the final half off a draw won by Maddox and quickly carried downfield by Miller...