So it's fun to be on the ground floor of understanding what artists will be doing in the years to come.

How could we not? ... The Whitney for 70 years has followed the instincts of American artists.

All six curators were invited to bring in 40 artists' names to start the bidding war, and there was very little overlap, ... Ultimately, we had to rationalize this and do a single list.

[(CNN) --] Ezra Pound said a long time ago that artists are the antennae of the human race, ... That they actually sense and describe aspects of the world around us that the rest of us don't see because we're so busy living in it.

This will be a show that challenges you. This is part of what art is meant to do.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it