In 2007, Ai Weiwei (born 1957) presented a surprising new project titled Fairytale at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. He invited 1001 Chinese citizens of different ages and from various backgrounds to travel to Germany, all expenses paid, to experience their own fairytale holiday for 28 days. The logistics for this project were complex and entailed a hefty budget, as the artist later recalled, enumerating the considerations: -to design the trip and activities for the tourists, to hope to get their passports, their visas, their insurance and air tickets, to organize the place where...

The urban photographs of Swiss artist Beat Streuli (born 1957) record what he calls -the glamour of the usual---people walking the streets in familiar states of pedestrian reverie, photographed with professional care (-glamour-) but without drama (-the usual-). Public Work 1996-2011 surveys his large-scale installations in public spaces.