Carrie Moyer

The week is of course dominated by two news items: The Whitney Biennial and The Wintery Downfall.

Since moving downtown, the Whitney Museum of American Art has grown up, thanks to a larger, dashing new building, more ambitious exhibitions and new responsibilities brought by rising attendance and membership.

You’d almost miss one of the most salient moments of the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

The curators of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the Whitney’s Nancy and Fred Poses Associate Curator Christopher Y. Lew and independent curator Mia Locks, have spent the run-up to the U.S. art scene’s celebrated biannual checkup visiting artists’ studios from coast to coast. What they’ve brought back shows a diverse and engaged art community in this country, pushing the limits of medium and subject. The Biennial offers opportunities to reassess the works of older artists and how they continue to contribute to the conversation—some of the venerable established artists represented this year include Jo Baer, Larry Bell, and John Divola. But it’s that glimpse and glimmer of what is up and coming, fresh, and new in contemporary art that draws us in, and keeps the debate lively, year after year. Below we’ve picked 10 young artists to keep an eye out for at this year’s Whitney Biennial, with works fresh from the studio, in painting, sculpture, installation, and video.

And we’re back. After a three-year hiatus intended to allow Whitney Museum curators to break in their palatial new home in the Meatpacking District, the Whitney Biennial has returned in very fine form, with an intensely satisfying display of 63 artists and collectives across two full floors and a few other spaces.

The Whitney Museum of American Art has revealed a lineup of 63 participants for the 2017 Whitney Biennial – the first Biennial held in the Whitney’s home in the Meatpacking District.

The 2017 Whitney Biennial, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on 17 March, and running through June 11 will include 'Formation of self and the individual’s place in a turbulent society’ as a key theme reflected in the work of the artists selected.

The Whitney has released the list of artists who have been chosen to participate in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

The Whitney has released the list of artists who have been chosen to participate in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

Contributed by Sharon Butler / Two Coats of Paint recently stopped in at John Zinsser‘s sunny Greenpoint studio.

Contributed by Rachel Farber / What is a queer perspective? How does queerness meet form?

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

Sometimes art is most meaningful when you least expect. If you'd told me a month ago that the most engaging encounters I would soon

Sometimes art is most meaningful when you least expect. If you'd told me a month ago that the most engaging encounters I would soon

“Affinities: Painting in Abstraction,” at D’Amelio Terras through August 19, aims to describe recent trends and ideas in painting

To commemorate Art in America’s 100th anniversary, we reenact a project from the January-February 1967 issue.

We may one day recall 2013 as The Year That Abstract Painting Came Back. Historical exhibitions have appeared at the Museum of Modern Art

This year’s fellowship awards from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation were presented to a total of 24 artists working in the field of Fine Arts; 14 artists in the category of Film-Video; 11 in Photography.

The winner of an art prize is declared. Does the award ensure more than a media-storm of fame and notoriety for the recipient? Of course, it will provide a means, a vital resource to build up strength of time and materials. And it does invariably function as a coveted add-on or perhaps extension of the branding of a private collection, foundation or art museum. Looking over our shoulder though, will we see the work chosen as an embodiment of the zeitgeist, as a kind of a memorial to a bygone age?

From Marina Abramović’s smash-hit solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art to Women Only at the American Folk Art Museum