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UPDATE: Warren Kanders has resigned from the Whitney Museum's board of trustees. His wife has also left its painting and sculpture committee.
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Updated this article with a few more comments from artists, including
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. Very powerful words from him: "Does the Whitney want to be complacent in the violence and treatment of people of color in New York City, on our shared boarders, and abroad?"
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Just now: Whitney director Adam Weinberg says it will comply with the artists requests for withdrawal.
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We are receiving more reports of artists dropping out of the biennial, stay tuned for more information!
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If all that’s left for museumgoers to visit is Augustina Woodgate’s master-slave clocks and Forensic Architecture’s anti-Kanders video ... I wouldn’t be mad.
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I spoke too soon — Agustina Woodgate has also asked for her work removed alongside Eddie Arroyo.
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, which represents both artists, will close their joint exhibition in solidarity with their withdrawal from the Whitney
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In a request for comment, Agustina quotes Hegel: "Slavery occurs in man’s transition from the state of nature to genuinely ethical conditions; it occurs in a world where a wrong is still right.”
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Breaking: Christine Sun Kim has also withdrawn from the biennial. "As a mother to a 2-year-old daughter, it terrifies me that my work is currently part of a platform that is now strongly associated with Kanders’ teargas-producing company Safariland," she said in her letter.
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SCOOP: Forensic Architecture is withdrawing from the biennial. The group has also announced new evidence linking Kanders to violence in Gaza.
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I'll have a short segment with
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Kenneth C. Griffin has also resigned. As we reported in May, he's used his multibillion-dollar fortune to fund ultra-right immigration laws in Arizona and one of America's most notorious private prison companies. Get familiar with the other board members.
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AND NOW: Griffin says that he has, in fact, not resigned from his board seat contrary to the secondary New York Times update. He is staying on. We have updated the article.
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But in other news, the "Whitney 8," as one artist referred to the group who withdrew this weekend, have penned a letter of gratitude to the Whitney curators and staff. They are requesting there work stay put in light of Kanders' resignation
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