Activist Arrested En Route to Whitney Museum Protest, Allegedly for Defacing Subway Car
Yates McKee was detained ahead of one of the group's actions in protest of Warren B. Kanders.
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Whitney Biennial Artists Join Call for Removal of Weapons Manufacturer Warren B. Kanders from Museum Board
A version of the letter was first released in early April and had signatures from 120 academics.
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‘Broader Patterns of Toxic Philanthropy’: In Open Letter, Academics and Critics Call on Whitney Museum to Address Warren B. Kanders Controversy
Anne Carson, Fred Moten, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and more than 120 others are among the letter's signatories.
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‘We Don’t Want Dirty Money’: Decolonize This Place Protests Warren B. Kanders at Whitney Again, This Time in Warhol Retrospective
The action was the first of nine planned in the run-up to the biennial.
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The Whitney Museum and Warren B. Kanders: A Timeline of the Controversy
The institution's vice chairman has sparked a series of protests by activists.
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Activist Group Decolonize This Place Plans ‘Nine Weeks of Art and Action’ in Run-Up to Whitney Biennial
"It is important to note that Warren Kanders is just the start of the crisis at the Whitney," the group said.
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‘Whitney Museum, Shame on You’: Decolonize This Place Holds Town Hall on Warren B. Kanders Controversy
The event follows a protest held at the museum in December.
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W.A.G.E. Urges Whitney Biennial Participants to Demand Payment, Support Employees in Ongoing Warren B. Kanders Debate
The letter called on artists to "claim both the freedom to dissent and the right to be paid to withhold your labor in solidarity with Whitney staff who cannot."
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Forget Me Not: On David Wojnarowicz, SITElines 2018, and Liliana Porter’s ‘THEM’
These three affairs explore how some get marginalized and left out of history.
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The Year in Protest: From the Met to Chapel Hill to Kochi and Beyond
A run-down of art world activism in 2018.
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