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On March 7, the Whitney Museum of American Art launched its 77th Whitney Biennial -- a highly-anticipated survey of the latest developments in American art. This will be the last Biennial in the Whitney’s building on Madison Avenue before the museum moves downtown to its new Renzo Piano-designed building in the spring of 2015.

The 2014 Whitney Biennial was co-curated by Stuart Comer, the Chief Curator of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art, Anthony Elms, an Associate Curator at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Contemporary Art, and Michelle Grabner, an American artist and Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The curators have selected 103 participants that together, offer a sweeping view of contemporary art in the United States. Two Whitney curators, Jay Sanders and Elisabeth Sussman, both of whom organized the renowned 2012 Biennial, oversaw the process. 

Donna De Salvo, the Whitney’s Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs, said, “The 2014 Biennial brings together the findings of three curators with very distinct points of view. There is little overlap in the artists they have selected and yet there is common ground. This can be seen in their choice of artists working in interdisciplinary ways, artists working collectively, and artists from a variety of generations. Together, the 103 participants offer one of the broadest and most diverse takes on art in the United States that the Whitney has offered in many years.”

The 2014 Whitney Biennial will take place through May 25, 2014.

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Friday, 30 November 2012 14:05

Whitney Museum Announces Plan for 2014 Biennial

The Whitney Biennial is one of the art world’s most anticipated events. Started as an annual exhibition of contemporary American art in 1932, the show became a biennale in 1973. Over the course of the past forty years, the Whitney Museum of American Art has not only had their own staff members curate the show, but the institution has invited outside curators, including Europeans, to organize the Biennial.

For the upcoming 2014 Biennial, museum staff members chose three non-Whitney curators to organize the show. Former art dealer and current Whitney curator, Jay Sanders, and Elisabeth Sussman, both of whom organized the renowned 2012 Biennial, will oversee the process. The three curators, Stuart Comer, film curator at London’s Tate Modern; Anthony Elms, an associate curator at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art; and Michelle Grabner, a professor and the chairwoman of the painting and drawing departing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will each be given their own floor of the museum to create a compelling exhibition.

This will be the last Biennial to take place in the Whitney’s Marcel Breuer building as the museum will be moving to a new Renzo Piano-designed building in the meatpacking district in 2015.

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