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Art’s Turn on the Catwalk
by Eric Wilson
—The New York Times
Art, Ancestry, Africa: Letting It All Bleed
by Ben Ratliff
—The New York Times
+ slideshow
500 Words with Richard Maxwell
—Artforum
Ballet’s Punk, Grown Up
by Andrew Boynton
—The New Yorker
Films That Allow the Elusive to Elude
Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham’s Ocean on Film
by Alastair Macaulay
—The New York Times
Conversation: 2012 Whitney Biennial
by Jeffrey Brown
—PBS Newshour Art Beat
Painting by Numbers, to Whitney Biennial
by Carol Kino
—The New York Times
A Survey of a Different Color
by Roberta Smith
—The New York Times
+ slide show
Five Figures Circling, Backward, Across a Blueprint of the Whitney
by Brian Seibert
—The New York Times
Sweet and Unusual
by Peter Schjeldahl
—The New Yorker
Leaving Babylon: The Whitney Biennial curators consider the post-crash afterlife
by Jerry Saltz
—New York
Whitney’s 2012 Biennial Exhibit Parts With The Past
by Karen Michel
—NPR
2012 Whitney Biennial: Preview
with WYNC’s John Schaefer and The New York Times’ Robin Pogrebin
—WNYC
Be Here Now: Eccentric Historicism Emerges at the 2012 Whitney Biennial
by Maika Pollack
—New York Observer
Whitney’s Biennial Heavy on Performance
By Elly Park
—Reuters
New York Couple’s Gift to Enrich Two Museums
by Carol Vogel
—The New York Times
Whitney and Storm King to Share a David Smith
by Carol Vogel
—The New York Times
Catch Calder’s Circus at the Whitney
by Stephanie Abrahams
—Time Out Kids
Art Pick:
The Tale of The Tape
—The New Yorker
Up Close and Personal
With “Singular Visions,” the Whitney offers show of rare intimacy
by Jerry Saltz
—New York
A Haunting Tour, One Room at a Time
by Karen Rosenberg
—The New York Times
Whitney Heads for the
High Line
by Carol Vogel
—The New York Times
Whitney Museum Breaks Ground On New Downtown Digs
—NY1
Whitney Breaks Ground for New Building
—The New York Times
The Met Plans to Occupy the Whitney’s Uptown Site
by Carol Vogel
—The New York Times