They submitted their withdrawal to the Whitney yesterday, which Yams Collective member Maureen Catbagan said was
driven by objections to the Biennial's inclusion of Joe Scanlan's «Donelle Woolford» piece, in which the white
male Princeton professor hires black female
actors to play the part of a fictional black artist named Donelle Woolford (the piece has been ongoing since 2005, according to the artist's website).