Whitney Biennial 2014
Audio Guide Playlist
Hear directly from artists as they discuss the thoughts, processes, and ideas behind their work in the 2014 Biennial. The guide also features commentary from Biennial curators Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner.
Welcome to the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and to the new Whitney Guide. You can use this Windows Phone App to explore the Museum on your own or to take a guided tour. There’s one tour that focuses on the voices of the artists themselves, and a shorter tour that will give you a taste of what this year’s Biennial is all about. As you explore, you’ll also hear behind-the-scenes commentary from the curators. This guide also contains information about daily performances and other events that you won’t want to miss.
For this year’s Biennial, the Whitney Museum invited three curators from outside the museum—Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner—each to organize a floor of the Biennial. At the time they were invited to curate the exhibition, they were all based outside of New York, and had very different professional backgrounds and institutional affiliations. Their collaboration has allowed each curator to be adventurous, exploring his or her own passions. As a result, the three floors have distinct personalities, focusing on different artistic media, and representing a diverse spectrum of contemporary ideas.
Please enjoy the exhibition—you can begin on any floor you like.
Support for the Whitney Guide is provided by Microsoft.
- 100 Introduction to Whitney Biennial 2014
- 101 Sergei Tcherepnin
- 102 Charlemagne Palestine
- 205 Academy Records and Matt Hanner
- 210 Terry Adkins
- 203 Elijah Burgher
- 201 Jimmie Durham
- 209 Susan Howe
- 202 Carol Jackson
- 212 Rebecca Morris
- 204 Paul P.
- 208 Public Collectors
- 213 Martha Rosler on Allan Sekula
- 213-2 Anthony Elms on Allan Sekula
- 302 Etel Adnan
- 315 Ei Arakawa and Carissa Rodriguez
- 315-2 Stuart Comer on curating project-based art
- 304 Lisa Anne Auerbach
- 306 Julie Ault
- 312 Kevin Beasley
- 309 Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst
- 308 Morgan Fisher
- 313 Tony Greene
- 318 Fred Lonidier
- 319 Dashiell Manley
- 305 Keith Mayerson
- 301 Ken Okiishi
- 317 Semiotext(e)
- 404 Gretchen Bender, People in Pain, 1988
- 404-2 Philip Vanderhyden on re-making Gretchen Bender’s People in Pain, 1988
- 402 Dawoud Bey, The Birmingham Project, 2012
- 402-2 Dawoud Bey, Barack Obama, 2008
- 406 David Diao
- 409 Louise Fishman, Ristretto, 2013
- 401 Gaylen Gerber, Backdrop, n.d.
- 401-2 Gaylen Gerber on working with other artists
- 405 Karl Haendel
- 411 Sheila Hicks
- 421 Ben Kinmont
- 419 Zoe Leonard
- 424 Tony Lewis
- 407 Ken Lum
- 403 Shana Lutker
- 420 Joshua Mosley
- 417 Dona Nelson, String Beings, 2013
- 418 Joel Otterson, Curtains Laced with Diamonds Dear for You, 2014
- 425 Peter Schuyff
- 415 Amy Sillman, Mother, 2013–14
- 416 Amy Sillman and Pam Lins, Fells, 2013–14
- 426 Ricky Swallow
- 422 David Foster Wallace
- 413 Donelle Woolford
- 410 Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Notley, 2013
- 410-2 Molly Zuckerman-Hartung on painting and sewing