
New York joins the ranks of Anaheim and Orlando with WS, Paul McCarthy’s take on a Disney theme park. This feat of Imagineering is not for everyone-those under 17 are not admitted-but any consenting adult who can make it to the Armory this summer would regret missing this Gesamtkunstwerk by one of Los Angeles’s most influential artists. McCarthy has re-imagined Snow White and the Seven Dwarves as a debauched house party of polymorphous perversity starring a princess named “White Snow” and McCarthy as “Walt Paul.” A multi-channel video documents hours of NC-17 fun, the abject traces of which are scattered about the sprawling enchanted forest that fills the Armory’s giant Drill Hall and a re-creation of McCarthy’s suburban childhood home. Visitors who can acclimate to the initially overwhelming experience (new arrivals tend to wander aimlessly through the space with stunned expressions) are rewarded with a rich meditation on Disney, Duchamp and Los Angeles’s deep-seated cultural pathologies.