Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China, in 1948. Her father, a former Nationalist Army officer, was imprisoned by the Chinese Communist government in 1949, leaving Hung to be raised by her mother and several aunts in Beijing. As a teenager during the…
J. M. W. Turner's stunning View of Venice, one of the most important paintings in the AMAM collection, brilliantly captures the mood and atmosphere of a sun-drenched Venetian day. Rising to prominence first as a topographical watercolorist, then as a…
Comprising a stack of plastered white shirts speared by three black metal rebars, this work was created in response to the 1988 mass murder of male workers at a banana plantation in Colombia. Similar to the white work shirts the plantation workers…