Whitney Biennial 2014
The 2014 edition of the Whitney Biennial will bring a survey of the latest developments in American art to New York.
The 2014 Whitney Biennial takes a bold new form as three curators from outside the Whitney Museum of American Art —Stuart Comer (Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA), Anthony Elms (Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia), and Michelle Grabner (artist and Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago) —each oversee one floor of the Museum. Their experience represents a range of geographic vantages and curatorial methodologies.
The curators have diverse intentions for their respective sections of the Biennial as follows:
– Comer’s section of the Biennial explores artists who often work at the intersection of political movements and personal statements, addressing global shifts in vibrant and variable ways.
– Elms constructs a vision that suggests a museum in Manhattan should be filled with a multiplicity of voices and a sense of poetry. Exhibiting works of art from all creative disciplines and challenging the relationship between the past, the present, and histories yet to be written.
– Grabner noted that her section features artists who have come to the fore as figures of influence, both inside and outside the geographic and commercial centres of the art world. She looks at the influence of teachers, artists and object makers.
The 2014 edition, which takes place from Friday 7 March – Sunday 25 May 2014, is the last Biennial in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Madison Avenue building before the Museum moves downtown to its new building in 2015.
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