The Many Pronouns of the 2024 Whitney Biennial
While there are only 71 artists in this year's edition of the Whitney Biennial, there are far more pronouns
Such a shame. One assumes that it used to be nothing less than a fucking honor to be an artist asked to be a part of the vaunted Whitney Biennial. Now, however, the event is a humiliation ritual that the artist simply must take part in to elevate his/hers/theirs/its/whats/whatevers’ careers. The art world, like academia, is perpetually at least half a decade behind the cultural discourse despite its firm belief that it is light years ahead. The Whitney Museum is so locked into 2015 brain it can no longer look outwards or inwards, trapped in a prism of thinking guided by a system of arbitrary rules. At this rate, we will be seeing figurative sculptures adorned in MAGA or video loops of anti-semitic 4chan memes at the 2042 Biennial, after the world has already crumbled beneath the destructive force of the ideological behemoth that art institutions can’t digest out of their systems.
SHOUT OUTS, however, to ABSOLUTE CHADS Issac Julien, Dala Nasser and Miranda Haymon for refusing to play along!