Berlin-based Berta Fischer makes sculptures out of sheets of iridescent acrylic glass, contorting them in order to capture and refract light in ways that seem out of this world.

Installation and video artist Hito Steyerl has a grasp on the complicated forces that make up the 21st century. Drill, her newest project for the Park Avenue Armory, proves she still has it.

What makes political art good? 20th German artist Kathe Kollwitz and contemporary British artist Sue Coe have radically different approaches to the same problem.