Is it too early to be excited for the Whitney Biennial?

Whitney Announced the Artists for the 2010 Biennial and we noticed a few connections back to Philadelphia:

Sarah Crowner is Philadelphia born.

Kate Gilmore has recently had shows at both the Temple/Tyler Gallery and at the ICA.

Sharon Hayes took part in the two-person exhibition “Other Islands: recent video works by Sharon Hayes and Danielle Mericle” at Arcadia, as well as participating in the CURATING AND ACTIVISM: INTERNATIONAL PANEL AND CONVERSATION at the Moore College of Art and Design.

According to the New York Times:
Next year’s event, which runs February 25–May 30, is being organized by Francesco Bonami, fifty-four, the Italian-born curator who helped put together the Rudolph Stingel retrospective at the Whitney in 2007, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, twenty-nine, a senior curatorial assistant at the museum who helped with the Biennials in 2004 and 2006.

Thus, in these recessionary times, the show will be smaller than it has been in recent years, with just fifty-five artists, down from eighty-one in 2008 and one hundred in 2006.

And unlike the one in 2006, this Biennial won’t have a theme. Bonami said he didn’t want one: “The theme is the year—2010—which is the title.”