— says she’ll cut off her support to the museum in protest. Marylou Whitney said that a work by Hans Haacke, planned for the Whitney’s 2000 Biennial, would belittle the Holocaust, politicize art and violate the principles on which the Whitney was founded by her late mother-in-law, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. – New York Times
- OTHER WHITNEYS DEFEND WORK: As Marylou Whitney withdrew her support of the Whitney Museum two other Whitney heirs lambasted her position. “It is regrettable that so many have chosen to lash out at an artist who has consistently been a voice of social conscience … This country should allow the free and unfettered expression of ideas through art.” – New York Post
- GIULIANI WON’T BE PUNITIVE, he says, about a work in the Whitney Biennial that compares the New York mayor to the Nazis. – New York Times