Thinking & Drinking: Dry Towns, The Whitney Biennial, and Ways to Rosé
How wine and contemporary art face similar problems. A word in praise of dry towns. What to pair with asparagus. And 9 picks for pink sipping this spring.
In my recent cultural readings, I really enjoyed Hilton Als’ delightfully bitchy review of the 2026 Whitney Biennial in The New Yorker. Als goes for the jugular from the very first paragraph. Of this 82nd edition of the Biennial, the bellwether of contemporary American art, he says:
“[It] introduces viewers to what …