Brave New Art

Gleefully lacking any social relevance, the Neistat Brothers are poster children for bratty teenage-boy subversiveness. In their giant projected videos, they do things like make a lighter child-friendly, blow stuff up and, most disturbingly, kill and reanimate a goldfish. One of their wittiest experiments shows the stripped copper wires of an electrical cord being attached to two forks. A fork is stuck in each end of a pickle, and the cord is plugged in. The Franken-pickle starts to glow and smoke and then catches fire. Like just about everything in this show, it's pretty darn cool.

Maybe there's an upside to the current repressive political climate: increasingly subversive art. It's like the preacher's-kid syndrome writ large -- the more the forces in power try to control and homogenize, the more vocal the rebellion.