Art in the age of Trump: the Whitney Biennial takes a first crack

THERE ARE A LOT OF FIRSTS AT THIS year’s Whitney Biennial, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s survey of contemporary art in the U.S. every two years. It’s the first Biennial at the museum’s new downtown New York City location, the capacious Renzo Piano–designed quarters it moved into in 2015. It’s the first time both curators are people of color—Mia Locks and Christopher Y. Lew are Asian American—and, at 34 and 36, they’re possibly the