Taryn Simon

At Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, a group show examines the role of hospitality in the UAE and the wider Gulf region

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Laments for the dead are performed in a secret crypt beneath Islington Green

Taryn Simon speaks about her new project, a collaboration with a nuclear facility in Russia

Various venues, Fukushima & Watari Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Art has a long history of engagement with politics. Does recent so-called socially engaged or political art really effect change?

Taryn Simon’s photographs of restricted locations reveal an unsettling side to the American Dream