The Gospel According to Youth: "Younger Than Jesus"

Video installation by Ziad Antar

Mozart minus music: Ziad Antar's La Marche Turque

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'The Generational: Younger Than Jesus'
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery, 212-219-1222
Through July 5

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• Ryan Trecartin
• Tala Madani
• Massimiliano Gioni
• Mariechen Danz
• Visual Arts

Most mischievous and funny of all, perhaps, is Chinese artist Chu Yun's installation, This Is Laura (2006), re-created in the New Museum, in which the artist gives a female "paid volunteer" enough sleep aids to doze through the show under a very comfortable-looking duvet, oblivious to the cacophony. Putting a real, dormant person in the center of such an explosive, garish collection of young hopefuls can't help but feel like an editorial comment. She needed to rest her eyes, it seems—or all the excess just put her to sleep.