Tag: Monograph

  • Tavares Strachan's First Monograph Surveys an Encyclopedic Practice

    Tavares Strachan is an artist whose interests, references, and approaches to making stretch so broadly, it’s not surprising that one of his more well-known works is an encyclopedia. Created in 2018, the 2,400-page volume contains 15,000 entries on individuals, events, places, and more that are critical to understanding our shared history, and yet were omitted read more

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  • A Newly Updated Monograph Surveys Four Decades of Ai Weiwei's Career

    From his monumental, meditative installation of 100 million hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds on the floor of Turbine Hall at Tate Modern to architectural columns wrapped in 14,000 salvaged life vests worn by refugees, artist-activist Ai Weiwei has long tapped into the power of scale, repetition, and symbols to plumb cultural heritage and expose societal issues. read more

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    A Newly Updated Monograph Surveys Four Decades of Ai Weiwei's Career