This year’s Whitney Biennial is a hit with public and press alike, says Peter Goddard, “because some of it reflects a new kind of thinking about art. But that brings us back to glamorizing. Is there such a word? There should be, to point to how much otherwise indescribable stuff is going on at the Whitney Museum of American Art.” In addition to the new embrace of art that’s hard to “get,” there is also a distinct sense of generational turnover about the Biennial, and the subtle air of competition between young and old, old and new, has given the whole event a feeling of renewed vigor.