Whitney Biennial 2006:Day for Night

Went to the Whitney Museum of American Art to see this survey of contemporary art. The exhibition had elements of all the media represented. -painting, film works, installation,video. There seemed to be various themes to the selected work:
a lot of nostalgia- use of old technology -issues of authenticity, identity politics, theoretical work and political work. It was curated a bit like fairground sideshows which was fine for the film pieces but left the paintings a bit stranded with people pushing against them to get into the installations. Going to these big shows at the weekend is a mistake - they are much too busy but interesting to see what is going on in the contemporary scene. There was a huge selection of artists amongst them Robert Grober,Pierre Huyghe, Josephine Meckseper and Marilyn Minter.