In the past few weeks, our news team has been gathering statistics about artists in the last two editions of the Whitney Biennial.
In the past few weeks, our news team has been gathering statistics about artists in the last two editions of the Whitney Biennial to try to understand who gets to be included in the prestigious exhibition. We examined data such as age, place of origin and current location, educational background, and pronouns. The results may surprise you! Read more below and click through our interactive graphs to see what our research has revealed.
In other stories, only a week after we published Michelle Young’s article on Richard Serra’s forgotten and dismantled 1983 “Clara-Clara” sculpture, which once stood at the center of Paris, a city official told Le Monde they’re looking into the possibility of resurrecting the artwork after decades of neglect. Get all the details in Young’s followup report.
Let’s move on to today’s oddities: A German museum fires a worker who installed his painting in one of the galleries, while scientists claim that a stingray-shaped rock is the oldest known artwork depicting an animal.
There’s more, including an interview with two Benshi performers, who carry on the Japanese tradition of narrating silent films. | — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | |
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| | The 81st edition of the renowned exhibition is younger, more geographically diverse, and not so male anymore, Hyperallergic’s analysis shows. | Valentina Di Liscia, Maya Pontone, Elaine Velie, Ryan Buggy |
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| | | A cacophony of life, death, and perfume ads, transmitted across the same frequency, VanDerBeek’s fax collages captures an “international picture language.” | Julia Curl |
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SPONSORED | | | Bedford Gallery’s exhibition presents a photo-docuseries with nearly 100 photographs documenting Indigenous stories alongside sculptural works. On view in California’s Bay Area. | Learn more |
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| | The artist’s solo show is a lyrical investigation into the ways that textiles shaped the country during the 13th and 14th centuries. | Lauren Moya Ford |
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| | Katherine Behar’s automated office machines simply pantomime labor, just like many bored office workers after they’ve fulfilled their daily email quota. | Renée Reizman |
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SPONSORED | | | La révélation de Meyreuil explores the relationship between the artist’s early work from Europe with recent paintings made in the US. | Learn more |
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| | | Ichirō Kataoka and Kumiko Ōmori tell Hyperallergic about the modern-day conventions and challenges of the Japanese art of narrating silent films. | Dan Schindel |
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| | More than 100 venues across the state will take part in the inaugural Garden State Art Weekend. | Rhea Nayyar |
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