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.

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

[(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.

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

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear solution for every claim, institutions will need to be forthright in explaining future acquisitions.