Canadian journalist Sarah Milroy visits the Whitney Biennial looking for the state of the American soul, and finds an awful lot of anxious uncertainty: “If I had to choose a word for the show it would be ‘tremulous’ — a tremulous biennial for a time of dramatic change, trauma and anxiety. A sense of fragility and flux prevails, reflecting the United States’ sense of an uncertain future and its own unsteady place in the international arena.”