Ai Weiwei planted seeds for change—100 million of them—at Tate Modern.
Location: Tate Modern
John Cage and Richter never met, but there was a kinship between these two artists with diverse practices.
Gerhard Richter, The Cage Paintings (1-6)
Dalí’s forms are mirrored and doubled in this disconcerting painting, made in a state of “paranoiac critical activity.”
Salvador Dalí, Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Coping with the death of his lover, Bacon paints figures who decompose and fuse together in front of our eyes.
Francis Bacon, Triptych – August 1972
We’re sick with the illness of the 20th century, and only a clay-powered wooden battery thing can help.
Joseph Beuys, Table with Accumulator (Tisch mit ...
Unusually, two figures make up this self-portrait, which is all sexuality but no passion.
Christian Schad, Self-Portrait
Although Salcedo’s exhibit at Tate Modern ended in 2008, the scar remains—a reminder that the past can’t be erased.
Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth
Beuys understood his art as a way to heal post-WWII Germany, but that may not be readily apparent from this work.
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