Whitney Press office

Welcome to the Whitney’s online Press Office. Members of the media may view and download information for current and upcoming exhibitions and programs, access the press release archive, and download high-resolution images and video. For further inquiries, please contact the press office at (212) 570-3633 or pressoffice@whitney.org.

Press Office Contact

pressoffice@whitney.org
(212) 570-3633
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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
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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
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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