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Whitney lays off 15 workers amid mounting financial losses Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019 (Whitney Museum of American Art). Photograph by Sean Sime. by Colin Moynihan (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Another round of coronavirus staff reductions has come to the Whitney Museum of American Art, as 15 workers in 11 departments were told they were being laid off, the museum’s director, Adam Weinberg, said in an email to employees last week. The move was cast as part of an ongoing attempt to address the dire financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The layoffs were first ...

Why the Visionary Designer Willi Smith Is More Relevant Than Ever Smith built one of the most influential fashion brands of the 1980s. An exhibition illustrates the breadth of his talents—and the limits of how fashion is chronicled. Willi Smith, c. 1981 In 1978, when submitting his biography to the Coty awards, a respected fashion prize, the designer Willi Smith, of WilliWear, wrote, “My mother and grandmother were always ladies of style and still are. I guess they taught me that you didn’t have to be rich to look good. I believe that good clothes don’t have to be expensive.” In app...

This Black History Month, as history struggles to keep up with current events, we can remember how we got here as we keep our eyes on the future.

Two New: Adger Cowans and Meshell Ndegeocello I love it that there are so many artists out there who are completely unknown to me. Always somebody new to discover. And you never know when or how you'll do so. Ultimately, I have Black History Month to thank for these two, one a photographer, the other a musician, both new to me. The first is photographer Adger Cowans, who is now 84. I found out about him through our friend Carl Weese, who sent me a link to a review of a photography show that appeared in The Nation. The show, at the Whitney, features a little-known group of Black photographer...

Adger Cowans, Footsteps, 1960. (Courtesy of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Aldine S. Hartman Endowment Fund / The Whitney Museum of American Art) When the Kamoinge Workshop began in 1963, taking its name from a Kikuyu word meaning “a group of people acting together,” a few Black photographers had already gained some prominence. Gordon Parks was probably chief among them. After starting as a portraitist in Chicago, he had gone on to work during the war years with the renowned photography program of the Farm Security Administration, best known for sending the likes of Walker Evans and Doro...