Pianoiss . . . issmo (Worse Finish)

The Cloud of Unknowing (2011) is titled after a 14th-century medieval treatise on faith, in which “the cloud of unknowing” that stands between the aspirant and God can only be evoked by the senses, rather than the rational mind...

Milena Bonilla’s discursive practice explores connections among economics, territory, and politics through everyday interventions...

This untitled work from 2012 is a print originally made as part of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art’s artist limited edition series...

Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s...

In this work the artist stages a humorously violent “intervention” against male-dominated cultures of art production in present-day China...

Justice (2014) presents viewers with a curious assemblage: a wooden gallows with slightly curved spindles protruding from the topmost plank, which in turn is covered with rudimentary netting, the threads slackly dangling like a loose spider’s web or an rib cage that’s been cracked open...

This artwork was part of a group of projects presented in the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2013...

In 1940 Rivera came to San Francisco for what would be his last mural project in the city, Pan-American Unity ...

Reborn, 2010 is a three-channel video by Desiree Holman that questions ideas of motherhood and the maternal instinct...

In the eight-channel video installation Movement , Li Ming uses his body as a prop to interact with different means of transportation...

Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight...

Camil has made numerous paintings and photographs of halted projects along Mexico’s highways (she calls them “highway follies”), and of abandoned billboards that look like theater curtains dramatizing failed capitalist strategies...

Martin Kippenberger’s late collages are known for incorporating a wide range of materials, from polaroids and magazine clips to hotel stationery, decals, and graphite drawings...

Reeder’s works often start with language—and his Pasta Paintings are no different...

Glaze (Savana) (2005) is an assemblage of found materials: a car wheel, a tire, and a wooden plinth of the type traditionally used to display sculpture...

Wheat’s work is built on a strong conceptual framework that weaves together commentary on social and political issues and the radical potential for change...

Casa de la cabeza (2011) is a drawing of the words of the title, which translate literally into English as “house of the head.” Ortiz uses this humorous phrase to engage the idea of living in your head....

Conceived as a large-scale mural-like projection, Color of History, Sweating Rocks is a neo-futuristic, hybrid film that combines cinematic language, collage, animation, and inventive forms to highlight the plight of the peoples of the Sahara—and refugees in general—who have been displaced by oil-mining....