Beginning Thursday, March 6th and running through June 1st, The Whitney’s 2008 Biennial takes over 4 of the museum’s 5 floors.

From the announcement:

“There is an evident trend toward creating work of an ephemeral, event-based character, in the form of music and other performance, movement workshops, radio broadcasts, publishing projects, community-based activities, film screenings, culinary gatherings, or lectures. Such projects do not stand in opposition to institutions; rather, considering each of these multiple platforms equally important, artists show objects in the museum or gallery even as they seek ways to complicate and transcend its parameters. In this spirit, from March 6–23 the 2008 Biennial continues at Park Avenue Armory with an extensive program of events and performances.”

Translation: the Whitney Biennial is a circus of the maybe-the-next-big-thing in art. Rooms and rooms full of baskets and baskets, so much life growing out of life it’s hard to move. But this is good. This is how the strong get separated from the weak, like an Argentine football match. Go sit in the front row.

Whitney Museum: 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, Thursday March 6th–June 1st, $15

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