After facing widespread criticism, the Whitney Museum has canceled a show that would have featured works being sold to support mutual aid funds for Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement. Titled “Collective Actions: Artist Interventions in a Time of Change,” the show would have opened on Sept. 17 and featured digital files, photographs, posters, and prints made this year by artists such as Kennedi Carter, Quil Lemons, and Gioncarlo Valentine. The drawback? None of the nearly 80 artists, many of whom are Black, were consulted before the museum acquired their works, nor were they compensated for the acquisitions. (The museum promised each artist a “lifetime pass,” but didn’t share any other information about payment.)

Some of the artists were involved in See in Black, an initiative launched on Juneteenth that sold prints by Black photographers for $100 each to benefit organizations that support Black communities. Many works were never intended to be exhibited, which exacerbated tensions. Untitled, a work by Valentine, was bought by the Whitney from See in Black. “They have purchased artists’ work at horrendously discounted prices meant to make folk’s work accessible outside of the art buying context and to raise money for several organizations,” Valentine tweeted. “They have entered said work into their collections and are planning a show. No permission.”

The artist Texas Isaiah, who also participated in See in Black, described the Whitney’s acts as exploitative: “In my experience, when a museum wishes to acquire works by artists, they have to seek approval from an acquisition committee and then directly reach out to the artist themselves or their galleries to purchase the piece,” he tells ArtNews. “It’s perplexing to think that a multimillion-dollar museum went around to buy works for $100, some unsigned, untitled, and not dated for their collections. It’s predatory, condescending, and irresponsible.” Farris Wahbeh, the museum’s director of research resources who organized the show, responded with an apology and promised to “study and consider how we can better collect and exhibit artworks that are made and distributed through these channels.”

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After spending more than a decade fine-tuning her sensibilities with designers and architects in Sydney and New York, Paris Forino set out on her own and launched her namesake interiors firm in 2012. Since then, the Australian-born designer has infused residences, hotels, and furnishings with a distinct alchemy of clean lines, rich details, and historical features that forges a breezy serenity—and elicits an emotional response.

When: Until Sept. 28

Where: Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, NY

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Other works include Alexis Rockman’s inventive seascape of Hawaii, Katherine Bradford’s paintings of luminous figures wading through surf and playing tennis, the playful and lively paintings of surfers by Liz Markus and Dan McCarthy, and a classic wave drawing by Raymond Pettibon. As a whole, the works serve to remind us of the planet’s uncharted future—and how the ocean’s ebbs and flows influence the artistry of not only surfers, but artists and viewers alike.

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