April 10, 2024

In the past few weeks, our news team has been gathering statistics about artists in the last two editions of the Whitney Biennial to try to understand who gets to be included in the prestigious exhibition. We examined data such as age, place of origin and current location, educational background, and pronouns. The results may surprise you! Read more below and click through our interactive graphs to see what our research has revealed.

In other stories, only a week after we published Michelle Young’s article on Richard Serra’s forgotten and dismantled 1983 “Clara-Clara” sculpture, which once stood at the center of Paris, a city official told Le Monde they’re looking into the possibility of resurrecting the artwork after decades of neglect. Get all the details in Young’s followup report.

Let’s move on to today’s oddities: A German museum fires a worker who installed his painting in one of the galleries, while scientists claim that a stingray-shaped rock is the oldest known artwork depicting an animal.

There’s more, including an interview with two Benshi performers, who carry on the Japanese tradition of narrating silent films.

— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor

It’s Bye Boomers, Hello Millennials at This Year’s Whitney Biennial

The 81st edition of the renowned exhibition is younger, more geographically diverse, and not so male anymore, Hyperallergic’s analysis shows.

Valentina Di Liscia, Maya Pontone, Elaine Velie, Ryan Buggy

WHAT'S HAPPENING

The City of Paris is now looking into possible new locations to reinstall Richard Serra’s forgotten “Clara-Clara” artwork.
A stingray-shaped rock found off the coast of South Africa mis believed to be one of the world’s earliest known works of animal art.
An employee at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne was fired after he was found to have hung his own artwork on the museum walls.