In over 1,300 pages, The Commissions Book engages in depth with more than one-hundred works of art. The publication organizes and weaves together sequences of potential narratives and interrogations, along with close examinations of different works of art and an archive of images. The stories embedded in these works, as well as in the foundation’s work, and that of TBA21–Academy, an itinerant site of transdisciplinary research and cultural production engaging with the oceans, are stories of making new connections across

Cindy Sherman is among the most influential artists of her generation. Using herself as a model in a range of costumes in invented situations, she plays with images created and popularized by mass media, popular culture, and fine art. Television, advertising, magazines, fashion, and Old Master paintings--they are all fair game.

Karimah Ashadu’s film Plateau (2021–2022) presents a profound and layered exploration of artisanal tin mining in Nigeria’s Plateau State.

VALIE EXPORT is one of the most radical and most significant audiovisual artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This volume focuses

John Smith’s films unfold at the intersection of conceptual art, structural film, and documentary practice, drawing consistently on his own life and immediate surroundings.