Whitney Biennial 2008

Whitney Biennial 2008

Whitney Museum of American Art

Marina Rosenfeld. Rehearsal for Teenage Lontano, 2008.
The performance will take place Saturday, March 8th, in the
Drill Hall of Park Avenue Armory.
Photo credit: Phoebe Sudrow

March 6, 2008

Whitney Biennial 2008
March 6-June 1, 2008

www.whitney.org

The Whitney Biennial 2008 opens today and runs through June 1. For the first time the Biennial will extend beyond the Museum to Park Avenue Armory (at 67th Street) with installations and performances daily through March 23. A full schedule of events is available at whitney.org/biennial

Featuring 81 visionary artists, with works ranging from a dance marathon to a man-made animal habitat in the Museum’s sculpture court, the 2008 Biennial shows where American art stands today.

The 2008 Biennial is curated by Henriette Huldisch, assistant curator at the Whitney, and Shamim M. Momin, associate curator at the Whitney and branch director and curator of the Whitney Museum at Altria, and overseen by Donna De Salvo, the Whitney’s chief curator and associate director for programs. Three advisors worked with the curatorial team throughout the process: Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem; Bill Horrigan, director of the media arts department at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University; and Linda Norden, independent curator and writer. Biennial events at Park Avenue Armory are organized by the Whitney and Art Production Fund in association with Park
Avenue Armory.

Donna De Salvo noted, “The Biennial is a laboratory, a way of ‘taking the temperature’ of what is happening now and putting it on view. It influences our thinking on multiple levels and, for the Whitney, translates directly into the choices we make about our exhibitions and collections. In dealing with the art of the present, there are no easy assessments, only multiple points of entry. For the Whitney, and for our public, we hope the Biennial is one way in.”

Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York City
(212) 570-3600

www.whitney.org

Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue at 67th Street
New York City
(212) 616-3930

www.armoryonpark.org

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