The 10 Most Interesting Works From the New Museum’s Triennial
At a sprawling, ambitious show, sometimes it’s the small things that stand out
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The New Museum’s Triennial opened today in New York. The exhibit, titled “Surround Audience,” is organized by the museum’s own curator, Lauren Cornell, along with Ryan Trecartin, a video artist known for creating manic videos and installations featuring him, his friends, and a seemingly limitless supply of face paint and props. Together, Cornell, Trecartin, and a number of curatorial assistants have assembled works by 51 artists from 25 countries that span sculpture, performance, painting, and in the case of an installation by the collective DIS, a hybrid kitchen-bathroom fabricated by the high-end appliance maker Dornbracht.
That’s right. A kitchen-slash-bathroom.