Art and recycling are often synonymous terms. Its not just movies that remake novels or American TV shows that remake English TV shows; the tradition of borrowing and adapting goes back at least as far as Homer and Virgil. Through March, the Henry is welcoming a
half-dozen younger artists for its Adaptation installation of videos. Guy Ben-Ner has a go at Melville with Moby-Dick, in which the artist hunts for the great white whale in his own small apartment. (Are you under the couch? In the oven? Are you hiding in the shower . . . ?) Eve Sussman looks back to Roman history, and a favorite scene of countless painters, in The Rape of the Sabine Women. Stravinsky and spam e-mails are also referenced, or repurposed, in related videos by other artists. (Closed Mon.) BRIAN MILLER
Nov. 22-March 22, 2008
