Tag Archives: Whitney Biennial

In Conversation with Curtis Mann

I first met Curtis Mann when he arrived with a small backpack at my San Francisco apartment to spend five nights on an inflatable mattress in my living room. He was there to give a lecture on his work at California College of the Arts, where I was a graduate student, and to surf as [...]

Whitney Biennial 2010

Leslie Vance, Untitled (10), 2009, oil on linen, 17 x 15 inches Seated in front of the gargantuan Julian Schnabel painting Hope from 1982 Francesco Bonami, co-curator of the 75th Whitney Biennial, says, “We wanted to mark a moment in time. We didn’t look for a theme. But we wanted less macho, less bombastic art. Less imperial [...]