Essays
These essays by Whitney curators explore issues at stake in art today. Many are published in conjunction with the Museum’s emerging artist exhibitions, and some are drawn from exhibition catalogues.
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2023
Ruth Asawa Through Line
“Your Hand Is Already Flowing”: Ruth Asawa’s Daily Practice of Drawing
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Trust Me
Hand on my stupid heart.
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Henry Taylor: B Side
She's Thinking about Romance
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Hadi Falapishi: Almost There
The Artist Dreams: A Conversation with Hadi Falapishi
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map
On Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map
“My Roots Extend”: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and the Landscape of Memory
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Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century
Our Brand Is Crisis
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2022
Time Management Techniques
Timeless Form
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Martine Gutierrez: Supremacy
Unspooled
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no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
La Vigilia Después de María: Arte Puertorriqueño, 2017–2022
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no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
Maria's Wake: Puerto Rican Art, 2017–2022
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Edward Hopper’s New York
Approaching a City: Hopper and New York
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In the Balance: Between Painting and Sculpture, 1965–1985
Balancing Acts
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Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept
Haciendo la Bienal 2022 del Whitney: una entrevista con los curadores
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Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept
Making the 2022 Biennial: An Interview with the Curators
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2021
Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950
Boldness Knew No Limits: Women and the Emergence of American Abstraction
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Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
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Madeline Hollander: Flatwing
New Instruments: A Search for Silent Signals
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2020
Salman Toor: How Will I Know
The Self as Cipher: Salman Toor’s Narrative Paintings
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Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
América: El Muralismo Mexicano y el Arte en Los Estados Unidos, 1925–1945
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Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
América: Mexican Muralism and Art in The United States, 1925–1945
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2019
Alan Michelson: Wolf Nation
Alan Michelson: Site Readings
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Pope.L: Choir
Something from Nothing: On Pope.L’s Choir and Other Waters
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Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
Histories of the Digital Now
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2018
Kevin Beasley: A view of a landscape
Low End Theory
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Eckhaus Latta: Possessed
Group Dynamics
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Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art
Planos conceptuales: aproximaciones artísticas a la arquitectura indígena
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Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art
Conceptual Blueprints: Artistic Approaches to Indigenous Architecture
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Between the Waters
Between the Waters Roundtable
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Juan Antonio Olivares: Moléculas
Juan Antonio Olivares: There Is No End
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