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The Accuratorial History Of The Whitney Biennial

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The comments from Charles Green and Anthony Gardner’s book Biennials of the South on the Edges of the Global(2016) implied the transition on museum curators’ selection of artworks since the 19th century and presented new types of Biennials, especially the Whitney Biennial. They said
...biennials are inherently the pawn of Euro-American capital, unproblematically collapsing neoliberalism and colonialism through something of a temporal jump cut between the nineteenth century and now. (442-443)
Because the Whitney Biennial in the city of New York is quite different than other Biennials. It only allows American artists to show their artworks in the exhibition. Thus, people may consider that the perspective/ curatorial history of the Whitney Biennial is still biased in limited. Nevertheless, the Whitney Biennial in 2017 altered many observers’ points of view. …show more content…

Then what’s the huge variations that the Whitney Biennial has since 1932? Is curatorial program the key project to help the Whitney to re-shape its visions? And what caused the Whitney since 1993 began to show some artworks that relevant to social or political issues that happened in the United States? I will mainly discuss these questions in my essay.
The purpose of this essay, therefore, is to argue that the Whitney Museum of American Art has proposed a new format for the contemporary biennial. I will reassess the development of the Whitney Biennial as an important means through which the institution promotes its international prestige and the innovation of the curatorial

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