“Quiet as It’s Kept”: Whitney Biennial Returns with Middling Show

Silenced by the pandemic last year, The Whitney Biennial returns with an exhibition named, appropriately enough, Quiet as It’s Kept. The title seems intended to acknowledge an art world suffering from its own version of long Covid after the lockdown blew a gaping hole in the zeitgeist, leaving a mostly bare cupboard from which the show could take stock of current trends.