The Whitney Biennial is currently on.    I highly recommend visiting the museum at this time.   The theme is social networks.  Think facebook ladies.   A lot of the work is based on artist and audience collaboration.




Today there are more artists working in more genres, using more varieties of material, and moving among more geographic locations than ever before. By exploring the networks that exist among contemporary artists and the work they create, the Biennial characterizes the state of American art today.

http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=home


curated by two women, i love this,  Henrietta Huldisch and
Shamin Momin


Huldisch calls all this a philosophy of "lessness," while Momin identifies it as a recognition that progress is a sham and, moreover, computer programs and the Internet and time and space and life itself exist as open-ended feedback loops rather than linear stories with clear ends. "Something we found across a range of media and themes," says Huldisch, "is a tendency toward smaller, more localized gestures, a modesty of material in approach and scale, a non-monumental quality."

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