WHITNEY ANNOUNCES CURATORS FOR 2008 BIENNIAL

Unlike the 2006 Whitney Biennial, put together by two European curators who had been living and working in the United States, the 2008 Biennial will be a homegrown affair, the New York Times‘ Carol Vogel reports. Heading the group are two Whitney curators—Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin—with Donna De Salvo, the museum’s chief curator, overseeing the project. Three outside advisers will help: Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem; Bill Horrigan, director of the media arts department at the Wexner Center for the Arts; and Linda Norden, a curator and writer who was the commissioner of the United States Pavilion for the 2005 Venice Biennale. “This team has a wealth of background and history,” said Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney’s director. “We’re trying to be more rigorous and thoughtful about where the museum is going over the next five or six years.”