Focus: “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art”
Whitney Museum of American Art
In the Whitney the women do not
come and go
Talking of Hopper or Rothko
THE WOMEN WHO CIRCULATE most prominently at the Whitney these days are its daring curators: the ’93 Biennial, spearheaded by Elisabeth Sussman, and “Black Male,” curated by Thelma Golden, are the most visible signs of a change at the museum. Indeed the controversy surrounding such shows has defined the public perception that the museum’s collective mind is set on a revisionary course.
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
With this question T. S. Eliot turned his anxious doppelgänger J. Alfred Prufrock into an agent of the avant-garde,