Ideas · 04

Power

Power hides in monuments, governments, money, race, empire, media and the stories history calls official.

01Ai WeiweiArt as evidence, provocation and public argument.02Alfredo JaarThe ethics of looking must be designed, not assumed.03Barbara KrugerThe image talks back.04Diego RiveraHistory on the wall, built for a public.05Doris SalcedoAbsence is given weight, scale and duration.06Francisco GoyaThe bridge between the old world and the modern one.07Hans HaackeInstitutions become visible as political systems.08Kara WalkerHistory's silhouettes have sharp edges.