Left: Artist Ryan Trecartin (left). Right: Whitney Biennial curator Francesco Bonami with "YTJ" cocurator Massimiliano Gioni. (Photos: Ryan McNamara)
Michael Wang has published a first-person report about attending the opening of “Younger Than Jesus” on Artforum.com’s Scene & Herd. Here’s how the piece begins:
I ARRIVED TUESDAY EVENING at the New Museum’s inaugural triennial, “The Generational: Younger than Jesus,” an appropriately Eastertide roundup of fifty vernal artists, to the sounds of stomping feet, shattering glass, and the twangs of Shahzad Ismaily’s noise performance—all part of artist Liz Glynn’s 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project. The hullabaloo marked the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths, which, according to Glynn’s accelerated history—her cardboard and hot-glued Eternal City had been “founded” the previous evening—was timed to occur precisely as the “Generational” opened its doors for the invite-only vernissage at 6:30 PM. I walked in just in time to see the fiberboard model of the first-century BC “Castra Praetoria” that I’d assembled earlier in the day, as a member of Glynn’s volunteer construction crew, battered to pieces by a couple of overeager adolescents.
To read the rest, click here. To see several dozen other photos from the “Younger Than Jesus” opening reception, visit Adi Shniderman’s website by clicking here.
