{"id":4797,"date":"2024-03-02T14:21:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T22:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2024-03-02T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T22:21:16","slug":"2024-whitney-biennial-what-to-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=4797","title":{"rendered":"2024 Whitney Biennial: What to Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newcriterion.com\/blogs\/dispatch\/a-freestyle-biennial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-23-at-6.42.46-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-23-at-6.42.46-PM.png 730w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-23-at-6.42.46-PM-400x444.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The upcoming 2024 Whitney Biennial: &#8220;Even Better Than the Real Thing&#8221; is billed as a departure both from tradition, and from reality. My take on what we might expect in this year&#8217;s edition is not up on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/newcriterion.com\/blogs\/dispatch\/a-freestyle-biennial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New Criterion<\/a><\/em> website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Whitney Museum of American Art\u2019s webpage still defines the Whitney Biennial as \u201cthe longest-running survey of American art\u201d (emphasis added), this year\u2019s eighty-first installment will expand its reach well beyond the United States. The show includes artists from Chile, Britain, Korea, Indonesia, Canada, Hong Kong, Germany, Switzerland, Lebanon, Singapore, Mongolia, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, India, Mexico, and China. This mad dash for inclusivity is consistent with the theme of the 2024 Venice Biennale, \u201cForeigners Everywhere,\u201d but, whereas Venice\u2019s has always been an international affair, the Whitney\u2019s has always been national, making it a radical departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[945],"tags":[1169,1170,443,1054,451,1171,989,630,435],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-history","tag-2024-whitney-biennial","tag-american-art","tag-art-criticism","tag-curating","tag-dave-hickey","tag-ernst-bloch","tag-museums","tag-the-new-criterion","tag-whitney-museum"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2024 Whitney Biennial: What to Expect - Julia Friedman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=4797\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2024 Whitney Biennial: What to Expect - Julia Friedman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While the Whitney Museum of American Art\u2019s webpage still defines the Whitney Biennial as \u201cthe longest-running survey of American art\u201d (emphasis added), this year\u2019s eighty-first installment will expand its reach well beyond the United States. 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