Whitney Biennial, Can You Hear Us?
Hyperallergic frames its coverage around art and activism, including Steven Weinberg’s comic offering tips for making protest signs for the “No Kings” marches and a discussion of how socially engaged art functions amid rising political hostility. Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara argues the 2026 Whitney Biennial feels disconnected from contemporary political realities, opening his review by asking whether a visitor “from Mars” could tell the US is “teetering on the precipice of fascism.” The issue also highlights Ed Woodham—founder of Art in Odd Places—who led a School of Visual Arts workshop on how social-justice frameworks can be co-opted by profit-driven systems and how to navigate institutional oversight. In its news roundup, Hyperallergic reports that feminist painter Pat Steir has died at age 87 and that The New School plans to lay off 15% of its full-time faculty and staff by mid-June, alongside other international and US cultural developments.
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This story was covered in Collectors Unboxed, Stained-Glass Uproar at Notre-Dame