An-My Lê's photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and representation of war, framing a tension between the natural landscape and its violent transformation into battlefields.
Global Cultures – Appropriation and Ideological Critique
Is culture a prison? Alfredo Jaar discusses how two Italian thinkers influenced his work Infinite Cell
An interview with Alfredo Jaar
American-prairie style and Civil War Antebellum style dresses made out of green screen material conjure images of specific time periods in American history, as well as the tropes of womanhood, Western expansion, and Puritanism
Stephanie Syjuco, The Visible Invisible
With gaffers tape, paper, and color gels, de Nieves creates a stained-glass narrative that begins with personal struggle and self-doubt, but ends with "a celebration of life."
Raúl de Nieves, Beginning & the end ...
Ortega explains the process of translating, recontextualizing, and appropriating as an opportunity to reexamine knowledge and ways of thinking from different perspectives
Damián Ortega, Alias
Watch a former sugar factory turn into a monumental installation, including a colossal sugar-coated sphinx and a series of life-sized, sugar and resin boy figurines
Kara Walker, A Subtlety, or the Marvelous ...
Minerva Cuevas looks back on "Crossing of the Rio Bravo" (2010), a work in which she painted a bridge across a riverbed that divides Mexico and the United States.
Minerva Cuevas, Crossing of the Rio Bravo
An 1881 Civil War monument comes to life with video projections of refugees
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Monument
Would you sign a petition to Pope Francis that requests Vatican City citizenship for all undocumented immigrants?
Tania Bruguera, The Francis Effect
Photographer Richard Mirach recounts his work, from his early political aspirations in the 1970s to his current series about left-behind artifacts along the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Richard Misrach, Border Cantos
Interdisciplinary collective Postcommodity creates site-specific installations and interventions that critically examine our modern-day institutions and systems through the history and perspectives of Indigenous people
Postcommodity arts collective
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer embarks on his most ambitious project to date: an enormous intercom system at the border between El Paso and Juárez that allows participants from both sides to speak and listen to each other via radio-enabled searchlights
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Border Tuner
Binational artist Tanya Aguiñiga pushes the power of art to transform the United States-Mexico border from a site of trauma to a creative space for personal healing and collective expression.
Tanya Aguiñiga, Metabolizing the Border
Artist Kara Walker talks about the often-violent subject matter of her work and the popular literature that inspired it
An interview with Kara Walker
SFMOMA talks with German artist Anselm Kiefer about exploring the past and materials in his work
An interview with Anselm Kiefer
Like in the rest of net culture, race was not a common topic in early net art—but that doesn’t mean there weren’t artists addressing it.
Art, Race, and the Internet: Mendi + ...
How can the destruction of an artifact also be an act of preservation?
Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn
Teraoka draws on Japan's brilliant history of art and kabuki theatre to creating beauty from heart-rending tragedy.
Masami Teraoka, American Kabuki
Haacke documents the provenance of a Seurat sketch held in a bank vault to lay bare the commodification of art.
Hans Haacke, Seurat’s “Les Poseuses” (small version), ...
Is this a painting or a relief sculpture? Unclear. Whatever it is, Kiefer’s landscape is falling apart.
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