Sara Greenberger Rafferty

Let the bidding begin! The Art F City 12th anniversary paddle8 auction is live, which means you’ve got exactly two weeks to secure that work you love.

In light of the current controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till, today we’re re-reading Anu Vikram’s essay about the last Whitney Biennial, in which Joe Scanlan’s use of the fictional Black persona “Donelle Woolford” initiated a heated debate about representation, race, inclusion, and oppression.

“Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Dead Jokes” is on view at Document in Chicago through Friday, December 23.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

This quirky, nearly all-women exhibition, “Untitled Body Parts,” shows some of the many ways in which the body can be represented.

Life is a series of painful and humiliating failures, and pratfall comedy thrives on this fact. Charlie Chaplin’s struggles with a world of brutal machinery and Lucille Ball’s frantic workplace mishaps are exaggerated mirrors of our own.

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

Sara Greenberger Rafferty first seized the spotlight with cleverly altered photographs of comedians, using a combination of hand-staining and computer tweaking

These artists will engage with the old Whitney building as they close it down.

The Whitney Biennial curators have chosen the 103 participants for this years exhibition. The show is the United States most important survey of emerging American art. The 2014 edition will take place March 7–May 25, 2014. It will be the last Biennial in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s building at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street before the Museum moves downtown to its new building in the spring of 2015. This is the 77th in the Museum’s ongoing series of Annuals and Biennials begun in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

A week after Sandy struck New York, Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) announced a $250,000 Hurricane Relief Fund, established to help both member and non-member galleries begin to pick up the pieces post-storm.

It seems as good a time as any to admit that it makes me laugh very hard to see a person catch fire in a film comedy. I am not entirely sure why

Phillips de Pury presents “Rorschach, a Curated Selling Exhibition,” which features work by a variety of artists, from Andy Warhol to Sara Greenberger Rafferty, which are related to the famed psychological test developed by Hermann Rorschach.