The next art hit on Flickr

Admin note: I'm shaking off a flu bug, so posting here is likely to stay relatively pithy this week.

Few artists mix visual impact with emotional wallop the way Doris Salcedo does. Given the difficulty of much of her work -- true, sometimes she requires a bit of wall-text -- she doesn't seem a likely candidate for the Tate's festivalist Turbine Hall series. But she's there now and already Salcedo's Shibboleth is showing signs of being a Flickr hit.

(There are a bunch of really good Salcedos in the U.S. including at the Pulitzer, MCASD, SFMOMA and the de Young. )

Given the socio-political content of Salcedo's work, it's a disappointment to me that she's never been asked to do a major public commission in Washington, DC. (Oh, wait, who exactly would commission that...) So far as I know there's only one Salcedo in Washington: at the Hirshhorn.

Related: How the Turbine Hall piece may have been made, understanding Shibboleth within the context of Salcedo's recent work, will the Tate's audience take Salcedo seriously after, say, the Holler, Salcedo concurrently on view at White Cube, Jonathan Jones on Salcedo and architecture, Richard Dorment is still haunted by the piece, five dozen pieces (already) in the British press about Shibboleth.