Walid Raad's latest works share a sense of serious play, shrinking political figures and magnifying their countries' flora and fauna to allegorize human conflicts.
War movies perform a clever trick: they create coherent, digestible narratives out of incomprehensible violence. Christian Marclay inverts this cinematic alchemy in his video, which premiered at this…
Sarah Charlesworth (1947–2013) typically worked in series, defining discrete ideas and exercising them to the point of completion or terminal exhaustion. The richest of these ideas could yield dozens…
The exhibition "Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975" is now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.