• Steve McQueen: Bass review – ‘Like an underground shooting gallery of dub’

    Dia Beacon, New York StateDefying narrative, the artist mixes LED lights and colour with ricocheting music inspired by West Africa, resulting in a throbbing show that sucks the air from your lungsThere are neither images nor narrative in Steve McQueen’s newest work, Bass, at the Dia Art Foundation at Beacon, about an hour up the Hudson valley from New York. Nothing but three stacks of speakers standing in the low-lit gloom of a concrete basement, and a grid of 60 flat LED light boxes sitting...