Lobby Art

Diving from an elevated perch; down deeper, where the rooms get smaller, the edges rougher, and air more saturated. Overgrown and subterranean, "Sewn the Name" is a collection of quivering dirges, new choreographies for old ceremonies. Coming in at a refr

One night, not too long ago at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ryan Sawyer introduced his piece, “For Those Who Wish to Sing, Will Always Find a Song.” He invited the audience to sing along at any point they felt moved to, “just abstract ‘oohs’ and

I often think about a video that Ben made in the mid-2000s, shot in profile with his shadow cast on a dimly lit Ohio punk house wall. In the video, Ben emits, intones, and then barks “yeah” relentlessly for an uninterrupted fifteen minutes. He pushes his