
“Danny Lyon: Message to the Future”
The invitation to Danny Lyon’s unmissable retrospective at the Whitney this summer might read, concisely, “Welcome to Bleak Beauty,” as does the splash page of the artist’s website. Lyon is known primarily for his photographic booksrich photo-and-text essays like The Bikeriders (1967), Conversations with the Dead (1971), Indian Nations (2002)and this exhibition includes generous selections from these and many other bodies of work spanning from 1963 to the present, as well as rarely seen films and objects from the artist’s archive. Indeed