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Whitney Biennial

An indoor garden installation fills a gallery with soil, rocks, trees and plants.

Global Art Biennials: Renovation, Revelation—or Repetition?

The question remains whether an alternative biennial model can exist within an art system that structurally absorbs and standardizes difference. The answer is no.
By Paco Barragán
A red-accented booth shows a suspended assemblage sculpture made of wire, translucent red materials and found objects, with visitors looking at works in the background.

Frieze New York Opens Strong, But the Real Test Is Just Beginning

Perhaps due to the convergence of multiple biennials and general market recalibration, buyers this year seem more attuned to artists with institutional profiles, strong CVs and already established names.
By Elisa Carollo
A portrait of a man with mustache and blue shirt against a red brick wall.

Kamrooz Aram On Painting in the Space Between Grid and Gesture

At Alexander Gray Associates and the Whitney Biennial, the artist advances his decades-long inquiry into ornament, abstraction and intuition.
By Elisa Carollo
A white sculpture by Anna Tsouhlarakis shows a horse’s head fitted with multiple white human arms pointing outward and spears mounted behind it, creating a striking hybrid monument displayed inside a gallery.

Anna Tsouhlarakis and Native Visibility at the Whitney Biennial

By Petala Ironcloud
A sculpture reassembling a tree but made of composed of roughly 3,500 hand-braided strands.

The 2026 Whitney Biennial Delivers American Art for a Fractured Age

By Elisa Carollo
17th International Architecture Exhibition Opening

The Most Important Art Biennials of 2026

By Elisa Carollo
A collage grid of circular photos featuring headshots of a diverse group of people on a dusty rose background

Observer’s Curators to Watch in 2026

By Elisa Carollo and The Editors
Image of a sculpture of a horse head on teh floor on a red carpet

Observer’s Guide to the Gallery Shows Not to Miss During Mexico City Art Week

By Elisa Carollo
Image of a man in blue suit holding a gavel as he leads the auction on a rostrum of a banana taped on the wall.

The World’s Most Expensive Banana Led Sotheby’s Dynamic Now and Contemporary Sale

By Elisa Carollo
Image of a crane in a park.

Nicole Eisenman Unveils ‘Fixed Crane’ in Madison Square Park

By Elisa Carollo

More Hope Out of the Downturn, But Less to Discover: A Recap of New York Art Week

By Elisa Carollo
image of visitors in a fair

Highlights and Early Sales from the Armory Show 2024

By Elisa Carollo
Portrait of a woman in blue dress and a man standing behind her in black

Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer Announced as Curators for the 2026 Whitney Biennial

By Elisa Carollo
Yellow room with nets.

A Look at the 2024 Whitney Biennial Through the Lens of the 1993 Edition

By Elisa Carollo
Portrait of a white man - Bill Viola

Bill Viola, Who Pioneered Video to Explore Human Consciousness, Dead at 73

By Elisa Carollo
Two women sit for a photo - one blonde and seated wearing black and one standing wearing a striped button down

Curator Meg Onli On How This Year’s Whitney Biennial Came Together

By Dan Duray
2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than The Real Thing Opening

The 2024 Whitney Biennial Is a Romp Through Turmoil and Abstraction

By Nadja Sayej

The ‘Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept’ Is Anything but Quiet

By Annie Levin

The Whitney Biennial Has Been Pushed to 2022 to Prioritize Delayed Exhibitions

By Helen Holmes

4 Artists Want to Pull Their Work From Whitney Biennial After Renewed Criticism

By Helen Holmes

Critique of Inequality Is Aimed in All Directions at the 2019 Whitney Biennial

By Paddy Johnson
Tiffany x Whitney Biennial 2017 Artist Collaboration Window by Shara Hughes.

Tiffany’s Famous Windows Showcase the Whitney Biennial’s Rising Stars

By Alanna Martinez
Shara Hughes, In The Clear, 2016.

A New, Big Space But Just a Few Choice Works: Whitney Biennial 2017

By David D'Arcy
William Pope.L, Trinket (2008). Installation in the Exhibition Hall of the Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, MO, hosted by Grand Arts. (

Whitney Biennial Artists Announced, a Pink Paint for Everyone But Anish Kapoor

By Alanna Martinez
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