Many patterns emerge across the 56 participants’ works, from an interest in complicating our understandings of US history and interventionism, to new approaches to looking at and making images

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With paintings of robots, frogs, and electrical systems, he remakes the world.

The US artist’s sculptures explore the ways in which AI behemoths and other corporations turn our data into financial assets

ANXIETY, DEPENDENCE, and above all vulnerability: These are the themes of this year’s officially themeless Whitney Biennial. In the catalogue, curators Drew Sawyer and Marcela Guerrero report that they began with the question, “How should this exhibition feel?” They then sought “to compose a set of moods that resonate with the turbulent existential weather of […]

I LISTEN TO PODCASTS on the train, while washing dishes, sometimes while walking around. It’s hard to think of a more passive medium, engineered for split attention—the thought of dedicating one’s attention fully to a podcast is as antithetical as listening to drive-time radio over a hi-fi system at home. Yet on a beautiful Saturday morning in late […]

IN 2003, Artforum convened a roundtable of curators and artists to discuss the phenomenon of “the large-scale exhibition—from Documenta to the Venice Biennale, as well as any number of other biennials that cropped up around the world during the past decade.”* The participants included Okwui Enwezor, fresh off curating the previous year’s Documenta 11; Francesco […]

FOR MUCH OF the twentieth century, regional juried exhibitions hosted by encyclopedic museums throughout the United States constituted the dominant civic model for recognizing local artmaking. From 1897 to 1985 the Art Institute of Chicago punctuated its annual exhibition calendar with the series “Chicago and Vicinity.” Other examples abound: When I began my work as […]

The star sculptor has created a piece in which viewers are brought face to face with racist dolls.

As the world wakes up to our techno-capitalist age, artists are stripping technology of its sterile shell to reveal the beasts hidden in the machine.

Today, the Whitney Biennial opens to the public, and Artforum Senior Editor Alex Jovanovich offers a few tips on what to seek out. (Also: Read Biennial thoughts from Co-Editor Rachel Wetzler and Editorial Assistant Theo Belci.) Carmen de Monteflores There’s a video clip of Andrea Fraser at a 2007 panel discussion about contemporary feminism. In it, she talks […]

Today, the Whitney Biennial opens to the public, and Artforum co-editor Rachel Wetzler shares a few tips. (Also: Read Biennial thoughts from Senior Editor Alex Jovanovich and Editorial Assistant Theo Belci.) I suspect that you’ll come away with a very different sense of this show’s tone depending on whether you start on the fifth floor […]

Today, the Whitney Biennial opens to the public, and Artforum Editorial Assistant Theo Belci shares a couple tips. (Also: Read Biennial thoughts from Co-Editor Rachel Wetzler and Senior Editor Alex Jovanovich.) Young Joon Kwak Kwak’s disembodied disco ball—Divine Dance of Soft Revolt (Anna, Travis, and Me), 2024—is a glitzy chandelier better suited to the SoHo […]

Ben Luke talks to The Art Newspaper's Melissa Gronlund about the outbreak of war in a region that has invested heavily in arts and culture, while Ben Sutton discusses the 82nd Whitney Biennial in New York. Plus, a newly-discovered Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum.

Plus, Leo Castaneda's "Camoflux Recall Grotto," image courtesy of the artist and Whitney Museum In advance of the 2026 Whitney Biennial, you can play a video game by Leo Castaneda. Leo Castaneda will exhibit a meditative, playable video game installation within the 2026 Whitney Biennial, running March 8-August 23. Titled "Camoflux Recall Grotto," and part […]

_Artforum_ revisits Jeffrey Slonim’s column on the 1995 Whitney Biennial

Headlined by the Venice Biennale, the season offers a bounty of treasures.

The survey spotlights not only the country’s 50 states, but also its occupied countries, annexes, military bases, and territories.