The Forty Part Motet (2001), an audiovisual installation by Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, consists in forty loudspeakers arranged in an oval; they play an audio loop of Spem in Alium, a well-known ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — What does a perfect work of art look like? It depends whom you ask. The best art says different things to different people, and leaves room for the viewer to inhabit it in a way all ...

Canadian artist Janet Cardiff’s sound installation “The Forty Part Motet” lasts just 14 minutes, but the experience is so profound that visitors will be thinking about it for long after. “The Forty ...

Janet Cardiff: “The Forty Part Motet” at the Cloisters (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) For the first time in its history, the Cloisters is exhibiting a work of contemporary art.

Along with its exhibit on Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the Clark Art Institute has opened another exhibit that paves new ground for the Williamstown museum: its first sound installation ...

The Canadian artist Janet Cardiff’s achingly beautiful polyphonic sound piece, “Forty Part Motet” (2010), based on a choral work by the Tudor composer Thomas Tallis, finds its ideal setting in an apse ...

NEW YORK -- Somewhere around the middle of the 16th century, the Tudor composer Thomas Tallis wrote his famous "Spem in Alium," in which 40 singers' voices spin out variations on an initial sacred ...

View scenes from the Cloisters Museum in New York City as guests experience Janet Cardiff's musical sound installation "The Forty Part Motet," which consists of 40 speakers, each amplifying one voice, ...