Henrot currently has a new film on view at LUMA Arles, In the Veins, which previously appeared at the New Museum’s inaugural show in its reimagined campus on the Bowery. Barrington currently has one of the most talked-about installations at the Venice Biennale; in November, his Western Beef-High Line will open, where else, on the High Line in New York City.
The two had never met until I convened a conversation between them Monday night at the hotel’s Louis XIII salon, away from the…

