At the Whitney Biennial, Walking through What It Means to Be American

I’ve already written one general story about the Whitney Biennial. Since it’s a big exhibition and an important one, and since it runs for six months, I’ll see it a few more times and write about it again.

Adam Weinberg, the Whitney’s director, wrote an unusually perceptive and wise preface to the catalogue. He was my predecessor as director of the Addison Gallery and is now, he notes, the Whitney director who has been there the longest.