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...

Liu Yin’s cartoon-like paintings and drawings explore the ambivalences of love, nature, and consumerism...

In No Title (Blue Chapel) Therrien has reduced the image of a chapel to a polygon...

Ben Shaffer’s Ben Deroy (2007) is part performance, part self-portrait, and part spiritual vision...

Liu Yin’s cartoon-like paintings and drawings explore the ambivalences of love, nature, and consumerism...

Converting is a piece about the Orang Laut, often called Sea Nomads, that inhabited the Riau archipelago...

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...

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

In Action no...

The figure in Armless tapers away...

Nugroho’s installations and performances have their roots in the shadow puppet rituals in Indonesia, particularly the Javanese Wayang tradition whose essence is in the representation of the shadows...

Untitled is a work on paper by Martin Kippenberger comprised of several seemingly disparate elements: cut-out images of a group of dancers, a japanese ceramic vase, and a pair of legs, are all combined with gestural, hand-drawn traces and additional elements such as a candy wrapper from a hotel in Monte Carlo and a statistical form from a federal government office in Wiesbaden, Germany...

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

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

Telescopic Pole is an adjustable telescopic pole that extends vertically from floor to ceiling and is held up by its own internal pressure...

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....

Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...