This year’s Whitney Biennial, writes John Perreault, doesn’t adhere to the premise set out for it in the curators’ catalogue essay. “The current biennial, they write, suggests an art ‘sea change’ as important as that delineated by the 1993 biennial (whatever that change was). The present change seems to have something to do with 9/11, corporate greed and dot-com collapse. Alas, although I enjoy the new biennial a great deal, I don’t think this point is adequately demonstrated either by their text or their exhibition. All three, nevertheless, produced credible single-author essays, leading one to suspect that the introduction is a bit of an exquisite corpse…”