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...YORK CITY Whitney Biennial One of the most important surveys of American contemporary art, the Whitney Biennial returns on March 6 with 81 selected artists...
...from the original meaning of the holiday. The festivities featured a river dancer and an Irish band, as well as an abundance of Irish flags and green paper streamers. Several inflatable plastic leprechauns were nestled among the beer steins behind the bar. The event’s river dancer, Whitney L. Kress ’08, gestured to the room’s decorations and said, “I think it means this,” about the significance of St. Patrick’s day. “Music, dancing, drinking beer—everyone dancing and just...
...results of this is that the art world has reacted, producing in some quarters a deliberately low intensity art of humble materials and transient gestures. This is the quarter that the latest Biennial is coming from. The 2008 edition, which was organized by Whitney curators Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, has no official theme. But one of its unofficial themes is what the pair calls "lessness"--work that's less bombastic, less puffed up and made with simple stuff...
Steady Art Beat Check out a video view of the Whitney Biennial hosted by Richard Lacayo at time.com
...built a reputation as a one-man barbaric yawp. His sprawling installations were teeming, swaggering, messy, obscene, obscure and beyond sexist. In their superabundant way, they were also irresistible. His 2002 funfest, The Grand Machine/THEAREOLA, which gets it own spacious room at the Whitney, is a meditation on '70s porn star Marilyn Chambers incorporated into a sort of ramshackle karaoke-CD factory...