“Some of what I’ve been thinking in my personal and professional life is, what are we passing on? Like, what are we giving to the next generation? What are we bringing to them, consciously or unconsciously? The future is unknown.”
The Whitney curator Rujeko Hockley shared these thoughts while telling me about her new group show at the museum, titled Inheritance. Running through February 2024, the show is a wide-ranging, multifaceted approach to the concept of inheritance and the many, many meanings it can hold.