Among art's most significant developments worldwide since the 1960s has been a turn to the archive - the nexus of images, objects, documents and traces through which we recall and revisit individual a
The event occurs in time; the aftermath concerns the traces, which are frozen into images, objects, re-presentations. Traditionally, art history accommodates only the aftermath. A different perspecti
A leading figure among Chinese artists of his generation, Ai Weiwei creates art that poses fundamental questions about the ways in which art and culture interrelate with society and how society interr
