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Article Excerpt
THE 2008 WHITNEY BIENNIAL
Whitney Museum, New York
To walk through the 74th Whitney Biennial was to experience the somewhat schizophrenic nature of contemporary American art, a situation that curators Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin optimistically characterized as "heterogeneous and disperse." When anything goes and no rules apply, art is all over the place. The Whitney Biennial is where you can see it all at once.
Eighty-one artists, with a surprising number from the West Coast, were spread out between two locations, the museum and the Park Avenue Armory down the street. Video, sculpture, installation, sound, performance and social practices were strongly represented. Painting barely put in an appearance, with practically no representational or figurative work, and there was less photography than in past years.
The "unmonumental" gesture of assemblage and collage, recently highlighted in an exhibition of the same title at the New Museum,...
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