![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/d6890b222e-1605775858/whitneybiennial_web_01.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/508ed3c07d-1605775858/whitneybiennial_web_02.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/6fab7187c4-1605775857/whitneybiennial_web_03.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/05fe4b6a76-1605775856/whitneybiennial_web_04.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/4c087b8782-1605775856/whitneybiennial_web_05.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/b7b998d7d5-1605775857/whitneybiennial_web_06.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/9ab7a85488-1605775857/whitneybiennial_web_07.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/72045c6aea-1605775855/whitneybiennial_web_08.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/dcea089bcf-1605775855/whitneybiennial_web_09.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/89da088750-1605775856/whitneybiennial_web_10.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/ab345c8aeb-1605775856/whitneybiennial_web_11.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/59e500291b-1605775857/whitneybiennial_web_12.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/980eb127fd-1605775857/whitneybiennial_web_13.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/da76569963-1605775858/whitneybiennial_web_14.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/53dbb3c6de-1605775858/whitneybiennial_web_15.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/6a65cdbccb-1605775858/whitneybiennial_web_16.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/98766a43b9-1605775857/whitneybiennial_web_17.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/0c73079a3a-1605775853/whitneybiennial_web_18.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/a4a25c5d2c-1605775854/whitneybiennial_web_19.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/ddb33fead2-1605775855/whitneybiennial_web_20.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/571a3d6706-1605775855/whitneybiennial_web_21.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/4d90e4cd30-1605775854/whitneybiennial_web_22.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/14fd0a41f3-1605775854/whitneybiennial_web_23.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/a800c3f011-1605775853/whitneybiennial_web_24.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/7c23d208cb-1605775854/whitneybiennial_web_25.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/d1bd74e8fd-1605775854/whitneybiennial_web_26.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/6b50d365c6-1605775854/whitneybiennial_web_27.jpg)
![](https://in-fo.co/media/pages/form-content/2010-whitney-biennial/84d6382463-1605775858/whitneybiennial_web_28.jpg)
2010 Whitney Biennial
The design of the 2010 Whitney Biennial catalogue builds upon the history and logic of the exhibition series, in which a set of related frameworks is periodically applied as a means of representing recent contemporary American art.
Both transitioning between and complicating access between past and present, a series of textured, glossy, awkwardly heavy pages layer archival photographs of the Whitney’s modern buildings with odd photographs of American presidents per decade. While providing the visceral sense of a paper-and-ink time machine, complete with the effect of vertigo, the section (and the book’s cover) acknowledge the weight of American political realities as pervading the privileged space of exhibition.