A Whitney Biennial Out Of The Times?

“The Whitney is not in the business of selling art, but this Biennial shows that it’s nevertheless caught up in the market’s bizarre hysteria, swooning over mediocrity and prodigally handing out prestige. The sliver of ‘now’ on view at the Whitney seems to me a symptom of decadence, a wasteland of its own, made up of dissociated trends and indecipherable shards.”