Meet The Artists Who Double as Investigators, Revealing “Public Secrets”

A growing number of artists are using their work to investigate myriad injustices—the damaging effects of copyright law on an artist’s legacy, for instance, or the persistent presence of military aircraft overhead. They do so in hopes of getting viewers to question the way things are and to think critically about narratives that are all too easily taken for granted. Jill Magid, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, and Crystal Z Campbell do so by drawing attention to pieces of evidence hiding in plai