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    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
      Frieze New York 2022
      Artist Larry Bell: ‘Art is a teacher, it’s not an object’

      Best known for his coloured glass sculptures, Bell reflects on a lifetime of changing how we see things

    • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
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      Whitney Biennial review — quiet works triumph over noise and obsession

      In the New York museum’s survey of American art the sharpest pieces reflect on today

    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
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      Jennifer Packer at the Whitney in New York — paintings both decorative and deep

      The artist makes luminous work that is filled with strong emotion and political weight

    • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
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      New York’s galleries reopen: the exhibitions you should see first

      With lockdown lifting for the city’s museums, visitors can return to the major shows that had been forced online

    • Monday, 18 May, 2020
      Former Nazi hunter accuses Whitney Museum of smear campaign

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      Institutions and artists are under pressure to probe the origins of their support

    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2017
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      Jimmie Durham at the Whitney: Cherokee artist or white imposter?

      Coy, controversial retrospective is a tangle of cultural concerns — but the truth of Durham’s ethnicity matters

    • Friday, 19 August, 2016
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      Alma Thomas defied gravity and reached for the stars

      How did a black woman raised in segregation-era America gain renown as a painter of captivating canvases?

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2016
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      Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, New York — ‘Soul-warming’

      Too often overlooked, the spiritual father of Pop Art at last gets his due at the Whitney Museum

    • Tuesday, 3 May, 2016
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      Carmen Herrera, Lisson Gallery, New York — ‘Purity of line and vision’

      The centenarian Cuban-American abstractionist paints fiercely-edged geometric works

    • Wednesday, 29 April, 2015
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      Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

      The Whitney Museum of American Art’s director discusses new buildings and curating modern works

    • Monday, 27 October, 2014
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      Jenny Holzer: Dust Paintings – interview

      The artist has taken up a paintbrush for her new, politically engaged series of works

    • Sunday, 6 October, 2013
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      Ana Mendieta: blurring boundaries of the self

      A new Hayward Gallery show should inscribe the artist as a true original

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      The art of collecting

      Philanthropists who donate art to public galleries mix a passion for the pieces with a sharp eye for value

    • Monday, 27 May, 2013
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      The New York art centre’s new image is attracting the ire of some critics

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      New kid on the block

      Sheena Wagstaff, first chairman of the Met’s modern and contemporary art department, talks about her plans

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      Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

      Humour offsets pretentiousness at this messily eclectic survey of contemporary art

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      Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
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      Light and dark
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      The dark heart of southern comfort
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      Markets
      Fund frees artists from market vagaries
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