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Forensic Architecture, the Artists Who Blew Up the Whitney Biennial

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Forensic Architecture’s research led to the resignation of Whitney board member Warren B. Kanders. The group’s founder, Eyal Weizman, reveals how they combine art and activism.

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Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art

It was easy to skip past “Triple Chaser” by Forensic Architecture at the Whitney Biennial. New artwork by emerging and established artists from around the world stretched across multiple floors of the Manhattan museum, most of it eye-catching or spectacular, or at the very least sort of lovely.

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