Whitney Biennial 2012

RISKY SITUATIONS
by Emily Nathan

Jay Sanders and Elisabeth Sussman, the curators of the 2012 Whitney Biennial, Mar. 1-May 27, 2012, took the podium at yesterday’s press-packed preview for less than two minutes. After gratitude-laden intros by museum director Adam Weinberg and chief curator Donna De Salvo, in-house curator Sussman was concise. “Jay [Sanders] and I share a common problem,” she beamed -- “we know exactly what we want to do, and we want to do everything all the time.”

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