It can be difficult gain perspective on your own time, but these artists manage to do just that.
1980 - now
Beginner's guide
Art has never been more diverse, but here's a good starting point.
Concepts in art 1980 - now
Cold War Germany and after
Art in the AIDs era
Post-Cultural Revolution China
Apartheid-era South Africa
Young British Artists and art as commodity
Pictures Generation and postmodern photography
Revisiting histories
Mapping and migration
Figuration, the body, and representation
Social practice
Public memory and the politics of place
Landscape and ecology
Digital culture
Assemblage and materiality
Spirituality and transcendence
All content | 1980 - now
A room full of seeds, a picture of a picture, a billboard on Times Square, and a dead shark: what does it all mean?
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