We’re very saddened to hear of Michael Asher’s passing. For the 2010 Whitney Biennial he kept the museum open for three days straight. (View video of our lobby during those 72 hours.)
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Alicia Hall Moran & Jason Moran’s week-long Biennial residency included a cover of Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls)” with taiko drummers, among many other events.
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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), Fireflies on the Water, 2002. © Yayoi Kusama. Photograph courtesy Robert Miller Gallery
This installation, one of Kusama’s “infinity mirror rooms,” was originally shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and is part of the Whitney’s collection. Fireflies goes on view June 13 in anticipation of a large Kusama retrospective, which opens July 12, 2012.
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Details of an installation shot of Nicole Eisenman’s monotypes, on view through Sunday, May 27 as part of the 2012 Biennial.
Installation photograph by Sheldan C. Collins
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Installation view of Lutz Bacher, Baseballs II, 2011. The installation will be on view through June 3, 2012 as part of the Biennial.
Photograph by Bill Orcutt
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As part of the Whitney Biennial, the artist K8 Hardy riffed on fashion pageantry, presenting a full-scale live runway show.
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Lutz Bacher, Baseballs II, 2011. The installation will be on view through June 3, 2012 as part of the Biennial.
Photograph by Andrew Russeth via the New York Observer
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Audio of filmmaker Werner Herzog’s talk with 2012 Biennial curators Jay Sanders and Elisabeth Sussman is now up on our website. Hearsay of the Soul, Herzog’s Biennial contribution is on view through May 27, 2012.
Photograph by Tiffany Oelfke
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Kevin Jerome Everson’s feature film Quality Control screens May 23-27, 2012. The Biennial closes May 27.
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John Kelsey, Depesrsion, Impoetnce, 2012.
Kelsey repurposed found language from spam emails for these “poems,” which he presents on paper featuring the old Whitney Museum insignia, the eagle. The lists of names indicate the emails’ senders, the titles are drawn from the subject lines, and the “stanzas” consist of the seemingly random, cut and pasted content of the messages.
Bottom right photograph by Tyko
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John C. Welchman, co-director of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, gave a lovely presentation on Kelley’s work on May 20, 2012. One of Welchman’s slides, above, features photos of Kelley and his childhood home, which was the inspiration for his Mobile Homestead project.
The 2012 Biennial is dedicated to Mike Kelley.
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K8 Hardy, Untitled Runway Show, May 20, 2012, featuring a runway created by fellow Biennial artist Oscar Tuazon.
Photograph © Paula Court
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K8 Hardy presents her Untitled Runway Show at 4 pm and 5 pm this Sunday, May 20, 2012 as part of the Biennial.
Invitations by K8 Hardy
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“In a way, I am like a sore thumb in your museum. In another way, I belong here and I’m proud to be here.”
See tweets and photos from Werner Herzog’s talk with the Biennial curators via Storify.
