{"id":958,"date":"2005-12-03T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T10:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=958"},"modified":"2005-12-03T13:02:22","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T11:02:22","slug":"the-whitney-biennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/03\/the-whitney-biennial\/","title":{"rendered":"the whitney biennial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you guys know that the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/30\/arts\/design\/30whit.html\">Whitney Biennial will show more than just American artists<\/a>? Granted, they&#8217;ve always been liberal about what &#8220;American&#8221; means (non-Americans living in America, people who are American but live overseas now &#8211; like me &#8211; people who had a studio there once, etc&#8230;.), but now <i>that<\/i> is even out the window. Kinda cool, even tho it lessens my chances of ever getting on ;)&#8230;. The full list of artists is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/29\/arts\/30bien-list.html?adxnnl=1&#038;oref=login&#038;adxnnlx=1133606239-SGjNDdXkFHMfScdnTgnruQ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PS I am on free wireless in the Budapest airport, finally on my way back to Joburg. How is it that there are no data caps, no fees and free connections everywhere else in the world, when our telecommunications company in SA is by far the bigger, and has a (MUCH) larger profit margin? <b>Crooks<\/b>, I tell you; the telkom monopoly is made up of a bunch of crooks, with even more crooks from government under their thumbs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you guys know that the next Whitney Biennial will show more than just American artists? Granted, they&#8217;ve always been liberal about what &#8220;American&#8221; means (non-Americans living in America, people who are American but live overseas now &#8211; like me &#8211; people who had a studio there once, etc&#8230;.), but now that is even out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-fs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":197,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/28\/whitney\/","url_meta":{"origin":958,"position":0},"title":"whitney","author":"nathaniel","date":"28 October 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Whitney Museum of American Art announces artists in its 2004 Biennial. Looks like a pretty decent show, with the usual suspects (and a few newbies that should've been selected years ago). I didn't even get a rejection letter, dammit :(","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":301,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/14\/custom-bush\/","url_meta":{"origin":958,"position":1},"title":"custom bush","author":"nathaniel","date":"14 March 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"So, Bush made this site where you could make posters for his campaign - Custom Posters. Then, 'wonkette' made The Sloganator: A Guide - some great suggestions of what to do with this tool. Eventually Bush caught on, but our slogans live on. Full story: Bush Site Unplugs Poster Tool\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1101,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/03\/whitney-biennial-2006-day-for-night\/","url_meta":{"origin":958,"position":2},"title":"Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night","author":"nathaniel","date":"03 March 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Granted, this is mostly a re-blog of some links I got from Art Fag City and MTAA-RR (two of my favorite blogs - and don't miss the MTAA Upgrade! at Wits this afternoon!), but there are some great posts \/ reviews already up on the Whitney Biennial. 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