Taylor Swift, eat your heart out! Three months before the New York premiere of the elfin Meredith Monk’s latest fusion of the performing arts, visual art, and film, the Park Avenue Armory was already adding performances to satisfy popular demand. Seldom allied with words, Monk’s signature extended avant-garde vocal techniques—squeaky, cavernous, microtonal, ethereal, you name it—are an acquired taste. But she’s been before the public since the 1960s, and her messages have found their audience. The title Indra’s Net refers to the Hindu myth of a miraculous web cast across the universe, with a different unique multifaceted jewel at each node, all the jewels so placed as to reflect all the others. It’s a deeply pleasing metaphor for a condition antithetical to the world we live in, which perhaps explains the image’s appeal. —Matthew Gurewitsch