1980–today
Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays and All Fall
Holzer's text-based art encourages viewers to reflect on how we make meaning in the world today.
Celia Álvarez Muñoz, Which Came First? Enlightenment #4
Which Came First? deftly introduces the viewer to Álvarez Muñoz’s recurring themes: childhood, language, religion, and gender.
Carmen Lomas Garza, Tamalada
Lomas Garza’s Tamalada—a tamale-making gathering—offers a window onto this delicious, culturally significant food in the Tejano community.
Maria Gaspar, 96 Acres Project
Responding to Chicago's Cook County Jail, the multimedia 96 Acres Project encourages reflection on the impact of incarceration.
Marie Watt’s Companion Species (Speech Bubble): Blankets, Community, and Intersectionality
Conversations between part and whole, between individual and community, are at the core of Companion Species.
Lida Abdul, Dome
Afghan artist Lida Abdul describes the chance encounter that became the basis for her elegiac film Dome.
Danh Vo Interview: Art Should Estrange
By using objects from his upbringing in a strict Catholic household and presenting them in a white cube gallery he wishes to alienate people and make them question what they know: “Everybody is born under systems."
Guerrilla Girls, ‘You Have to Question What You See’ (interview)
The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world.
Theaster Gates on collecting
Theaster Gates reflects on the various collections he has acquired and created artworks with, including the Jet magazine archives and the inventory of an entire hardware store
Tania Bruguera, The Francis Effect
Would you sign a petition to Pope Francis that requests Vatican City citizenship for all undocumented immigrants?
Tania Bruguera, Immigrant Movement International
Could an arts initiative for immigrants become a political party? Artist Tania Bruguera created "Immigrant Movement International" (IMI) with that in mind.
Ai Weiwei, Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)
Ai Weiwei planted seeds for change—100 million of them—at Tate Modern.
