NEW YORK CITY.- This year’s edition of the Whitney Biennial offers a panoramic view of the latest tendencies in art in the United States. This is the most representative show of new American art, and it could not be unaffected by the terrorists attacks of September 11 of last year. The head of the biennial, Lawrence Rinder, talks about the effect of this terrible event on art produced in America. Lawrence Rinder collaborated with a group of curators from the museum: Chrissie Iles, in video and film; Christiana Paul, in "netart"; and Debra Singer, in "performance and sound art". The selection, the largest since 1981, incorporates new artistic fields such as sound and architecture, and it includes a total of 113 living artists, between the ages of 24 and 71 years, and of different nationalities, all of them living in the United States.