Price Database The Art Angle This week, Ben Davis speaks to Taina H. Cruz, who is featured in both the Whitney Biennial and Greater New York. Taína H. Cruz, I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back , 2025. Courtesy the artist. An original artwork installed by the Whitney Museum of American Art. © 2025 Taína Cruz. This interview with the painter Taina H. Cruz  first came out for the opening of the Whitney Biennial , and on the occasion of the opening of Greater New York at MoMA PS1, where Cruz is also featured, we’re resurfacing it. This is a lot of attention for an artist who is relatively young (born in 1998), and who just earned her MFA from the famed Yale School of Painting last year. She’s worked in a variety of media, but is known now for paintings often featuring images of Black female figures with a moody, woozy, sometimes unsettled or unsettling atmosphere. Sometimes Cruz works in suggestions of African American and Caribbean folklore, or intimations of horror and fantasy.…