The Whitney’s Chief Curator remains the guiding force behind her museum’s seemingly perpetual rise through the ranks of the international artworld. A lively year saw the Whitney’s evermaligned biennial exhibition expand to the Park Avenue Armory (courtesy of Yvonne Force-Villareal and Doreen Remen’s Art Production Fund), a nearuniversally praised Lawrence Weiner retrospective (which De Salvo cocurated with Anne Goldstein of LA MOCA) and the more recent De Salvo-curated Progress, a well-received selection of forward-looking works from the museum’s permanent collection. Then, of course, there were shows of Kara Walker, Robert Mapplethorpe and Paul McCarthy. And with Renzo Piano designing a 185,000-square-foot sister building in the Meatpacking district (construction is scheduled to begin in the spring; completion in 2012), De Salvo will have an even bigger canvas to work with.