Category: Museum Director
Nationality: American
Last Year: 36 (with curator Donna De Salvo as the entry)

Under the affable Weinberg’s six-year watch the Whitney has continued to keep one foot firmly in the contemporary. The past year has seen exhibitions of Elad Lassry and Lucinda Childs and retrospectives of Dan Graham and William Eggleston. For the 2010 biennial, the pairing of Francesco Bonami with young Whitney curator Gary Carrion-Murayari (responsible for last year’s punchy exhibition series Television Delivers People, which included artists such as Alex Bag and Keren Cytter) is a canny one for a New York in which sales have not so readily been propelling new artists into the foreground. A twenty-first-century museum is also under way: Renzo Piano’s designs for Whitney downtown, a 17,000-squaremetre building in the Meatpacking District by High Line park, have just been revealed.