In addition, from now through October 15, the documentary video opera Three Tales, with visuals by video artist Beryl Korot and soundtrack by Reich, will be shown in the Whitney's Kaufman Astoria Studios Film and Video Gallery. The sound and video work examines three historic events: the 1937 Hindenburg crash, the nuclear bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1949 and the cloning of sheep "Dolly" in 1997.
Reich first appeared at the Whitney as part of the "Anti-Illusion" show in the spring of 1969. The exhibition included work by Carl Andr_, Lynda Benglis, Eva Hesse, Richard Serra and Richard Tuttle, as well as performances which the show's curator, Marcia Tucker, named "extended-time pieces," by Reich, Bruce Nauman and Philip Glass.
Reich returned to the Whitney in 1978 and again in 1981 as part of the avant-garde series "Composer's Showcase," which was launched at the museum in 1968.