This year’s Whitney Biennial was supposed to show that there’s good art outside the main art centers. But “the show has remarkably few surprises, and most of these aren’t that good. With several notable exceptions, too many of the under-known artists here turn out to be that way for a reason, which is the weakness of their work. This suggests two possible explanations. Either the centers are more permeable than we think—that is, ‘good art’ finds a way to get known—or the curators were too narrow. – Village Voice