Culture

A triangular table set for thirty-nine historical women, with 999 more names inscribed in the floor. Community recovered - the gathering of everyone excluded from the official record, seated together at last.

A team of a hundred workers wrapping a mile of Australian coastline. The work could only exist through collective effort, and the effort was the point. Community as the art, process as the thing made.

Workers, protesters, and neighbors rendered with precision and dignity. Shahn made community the subject of serious art - ordinary people doing ordinary things, given the attention usually reserved for saints and kings.