Art in the Twenty-First Century (2001-2009)

Artists explore how our understanding of the natural world becomes deeply cultural.

Artists engage politics, inequality, and the many conflicts that besiege the world today.

Artists explore the roles that intuition, emotion, fantasy, and escapism play in contemporary art.

Spontaneous and joyful, subversive or amusing, play can take many forms in daily life as well as in...

Artists explore how we organize life and the ways in which we capture knowledge and attempt greater...

Artists explore how memory functions and how to frame the past in their work.

From politics to mass media, the theme of power pervades daily life and is reflected in the ideas and concerns...

Artists evoke and transform time in their work, relating to art of the ancient past, to nature, and to the...

Artists use irony, goofiness, satire, and sarcasm in their work, being funny and critical at the same time.

Artists express longing, love, and human experience in contemporary work.

Artists tell stories in their work, reveal narrative traditions, and record and describe the world around us.

Artists address the idea of identity by questioning commonly held assumptions about stereotypes,...

Artists address the idea of consumption by questioning commonly held assumptions about commerce, mass media,...

Artists address the idea of spirituality by questioning commonly held assumptions about faith, belief,...