Whitney announces Biennial artists - Artworld - Brief Article

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has announced its plans for the 2004 Biennial, which will be on view Mar. 11-May 30. Organized by staff curators Chrissie lies, Shamim M. Momin and Debra Singer, the show, intended to be an "intergenerational conversation," will include 108 artists and collaborative groups, and will again feature several site-specific outdoor works in conjunction with the Public Art Fund. This year, the curators have discerned three recurring themes in contemporary art: the art, popular culture, and politics of the late 1960s and early 1970si the construction of fantastic worlds, uncanny spaces and new narrative forms, often incorporating psychedelia and the apocalyptic; and the prevalence of painting and drawing, as well as obsessively produced hand-processed films. In a departure from its usual form, the accompanying catalogue will consist of two elements. A bound book will include essays by the curators, and more than a dozen by various contributors including contemporary and historical figures. The second part is a box of printed images by artists in the exhibition.

Among the selected artists are: Marina Abramovic, Laylah Ali, Hernan Bas, Jeremy Blake, Mel Bochner, Slater Bradley, Cecily Brown, Maurizio Catteran, Sue DeBeer, Sam Durant, Spencer Finch, Harrell Fletcher, Barnaby Furnas, Jack Goldstein, Katy Grannan, Katie Grinnan, Mark Handforth, David Hockney, Jim Hodges, Roni Horn, Craigie Horsfield, Mary Kelly, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Mingwei, Sharon Lockhart, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Virgil Marti, Paul McCarthy, Julie Mehretu, Catherine Opie, Laura Owens, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Peyton, Chloe Piene, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, Dario Robleto, James Siena, Amy Sillman, Yutaka Sone, Eve Sussman, Julianne Swartz, Fred Tomaselli, Olay Westphalen and Andrea Zittel.

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