AT THE RISK OF BEING CYNICAL

Artist defends his controversial work for Whitney Biennial. “What I’m very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.” – New York Times

  • FAMILY FEUD: Members of the Whitney family line up against one another over controversial Hans Haacke work for the Whitney Biennial. – BBC