The exhibitions, organized by a parade of well -
regarded outside curators, kicked off with a three - year, three - part series on African photography accompanied by a trilogy of beautifully produced scholarly catalogues.
The 77th Whitney Biennial will, this year, be corralled by three
curators sourced from
outside the institution (but no less internationally
regarded): Stuart Comer (Chief
Curator of a Media and Performance Art at MoMA), Anthony Elms (Associate
Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia), and Michelle Grabner (artist and a professor in the Painting & Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago).