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1500 BCE
Mask of Agamemnon
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1323 BCE
Tutankhamun's Death Mask
This mask is considered one of the masterpieces of Egyptian art. It is a marvel of skilled craftsmanship, beaten from sheet gold and inlaid with colored glass and semi-precious stones. -
1100 BCE
Codex
Codex, or codices, are a series of sheets of paper or papyrus that have been bound and fixed on one edge and covered. -
447 BCE
Parthenon
A greek temple, worshipping the goddess Athena, that sits on top of the Athenian Acropolis in Greece. The architectural style is Classical with Doric orders. -
220 BCE
Wood Block Printing
Wood block printing was first seen around 220 AD in China. This process was done by printing text onto a sheet of paper, then gluing the paper face-down onto a wood block and, using a knife, engraving the characters into the wood. -
79 BCE
Scrolls
A scroll is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper that has been written, drawn, or painted upon for the purpose of decoration or transmitting information. In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the town of Pompeii. During excavations in 1752, diggers found bundles of these ancient scrolls, carbonized by the intense heat of the ash and lava and preserved under layers of cement-like rock. -
190
Unswept House
Mosaic from the emperor Hadrian's villa at Tivoli Sosus of Pergamon. -
1041
Movable Type
Between 1041 and 1048, Chinese alchemist Bi Shen invented movable type made of a mixture of clay and glue hardened by baking. He composed texts by placing the types side by side on an iron plate that was coated in a mixture of resin, was, and paper ash. The invention of movable type allowed an artist to compose individual sentences rather than full pages at a time. -
1285
Madonna Rucellai
Painted by Duccio di Buoninsegna -
1310
Ognissanti Madonna
Painted by Giotto di Bondone -
1377
Movable Metal Type
Jikji, a Korean Buddhist document, is recorded as the world's oldest movable metal type book. Each character was cast individually rather than in multiples, creating certain flaws in the typography such as difference in ink color thickness, frequent ink spots and blurs, and characters written in reverse. -
Period: 1390 to 1441
Jan Van Eyck
A Flemish painter that lived during the Renaissance period. One of his pieces is Arnolfini Portrait. -
1400
Tacuinum Sanitatis
An Arabic book that talks about health. -
Period: 1401 to 1428
Masaccio
An Italian painter that became the first artist to paint linear perspective after finishing his fresco "Holy Trinity" -
Period: 1404 to 1472
Leon Battista Alberti
A architect and artist that is most famous for his theories on perspective. -
1415
Linear Perspective
Architect, Fillipo Brunelleschi discovered linear perspective while standing inside of the Cathedral of Florence. -
1420
Holy Trinity
Painted by Masaccio. It's the first painting to try and show linear perspective. -
Period: 1430 to 1495
Carlo Crivelli
An Italian Renaissance painter -
1434
Arnolfini Portrait
Painted by Jan van Eyck, it because the first painting with a mirror included in it. -
1434
Emerald Buddha
A statue that is dedicated to Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand -
1435
On Painting
A book written by Leon Battista Alberti that talks about the theories of color relativity. He also highlights that there are only 4 true colors - red, green, blue, and gray. -
1436
Lucca Madonna
An oil painting made by Jan van Eyck -
1440
Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press with replaceable/movable wooden or metal letters in1440. This method of printing allowed the production of books to become much easier because it brought down the price of printed materials and made such materials available for the masses. -
1454
Gutenberg Bible
Johannes Gutenberg is also credited with printing the world's first book, the 42-line Gutenberg Bible, using his printing press, -
1470
Playing Chess With Death
Painting by Albertus Pictor -
Period: 1471 to 1528
Albrecht Durer
He was a German artist that lived during the Renaissance. Durer is famous for his painting and printmaking abilities. One of his pieces is Adam and Eve. -
Period: 1472 to 1553
Lucas Cranach the Elder
A German painter and printmaker that was popular during the Renaissance period. One of his works of art includes Adam and Eve. -
Period: 1475 to 1564
Michelangelo
An Italian artist that created many amazing works in sculpting, architecture, poetry, and painting. He was alive during the High Renaissance. Some of his famous works include the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Pieta, and David. -
1480
Madonna and Child
Painted by Carlo Crivelli -
Period: 1483 to 1520
Raphael
An Italian architect and painter that lived during the High Renaissance period. Some of his works include The School of Athens and Madonna del Prato. -
Period: 1488 to 1576
Titian
An Italian painter that was part of the Venetian school. He is credited to have paved the way for odalisques. One of artworks is the oil painting Venus of Urbino. -
1490
Dance of Death
Painted by John of Kastav (Janez iz Kastva) -
Period: 1490 to 1576
Titian
An Italian painter that was a very high regarded person during the Renaissance period. He is a master of color and light in painting. One of his works is Venus of Urbino. -
1498
Self-Portrati
Painted by Albrecht Durer -
1504
David
A colossal sculpture created by Michelangelo. When looking from below, the body looks proportional, but when looking from the side, the top half of the body is larger. -
1510
School of Athens
Painted by Raphael -
1510
Madonna of Loreto
A painting created by Raphael -
Period: 1525 to 1569
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
A Flemish Renaissance painter -
1526
Pesaro Madonna
Painted by Titian -
1526
Adam and Eve
An oil painting done by Lucas Cranach the Elder -
1538
Venus of Urbino
An oil painting on canvas created by Titian. This painting paved the way for odalisques. -
1547
Le Transi de Rene de Chalon
A life-sized skeleton of Rene de Chalon, Prince of Orange, sculpted by Ligier Richier. It used to contain the Prince's actual dried heart -
1562
The Triumph of Death
Painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder -
1563
The Gardener
Painted by Giuseppe Arcimboldo -
1567
The Peasant Wedding
Painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder -
Period: 1577 to
Peter Paul Rubens
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Period: 1577 to
Peter Paul Rubens
A Flemish artist from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. He was very influential during the Baroque period in holy paintings. One of his paintings is Venus and Adonis. -
Reversible Head with Basket of Fruit
The artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo painted this on wood with oil paint. -
Pieta
A marble statue carved by famous painter and sculptor Michelangelo -
Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber
Painted by artist Juan Sanchez Cotan -
Period: to
Rembrandt van Rijn
A Dutch painter that was very advanced for his time and was considered a great artist. -
Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market
Painted by Flemish artist Frans Snyders -
Judith Slaying Holofernes
A painting done in oil during the Baroque period that was made by Artemisia Gentileschi. -
Vanitas Still Life with Self Portrait
Painted by Pieter Claesz -
Still Life
Painted by Willem Claesz Heda -
Period: to
Sir Isaac Newton
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Deathbed Portrait of Christian IV, King of Denmark
Painted by Berent Hilwaetz -
Self Portrait
Painted by Rembrandt von Rijn -
The Dissolute Household
Painted by Jan Steen -
Opticks
Sir Isaac Newton wrote a book that breaks down the science behind light and color. -
Color wheel
Sir Isaac Newton used prisms to understand how white light can divide into all colors of the spectrum. This lead him to create the first ever color wheel. -
Palace of Versailles
In 1624, the original residence was primarily used as a hunting lodge and private retreat by Louis XIII and his family. Under the guidance of Louis XIV (reigned 1643-1715) the residence was transformed into an immense and extravagant complex surrounded by stylized French and English gardens. -
Period: to
Francisco Goya
A Spanish painter that was alive during the Romanticism period. -
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Painting by Jean-Honore Gainsborough -
Period: to
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wrote a book that studied the psychological effects of color. It answered questions about how colors make you feel and there impact on your emotional state. He came up with the idea that darkness is not an absence of light. -
Ancient Rome
Painting by Giovanni Paolo Panini -
Period: to
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
Credited with taking the first known photograph, called his photographic process "heliography" -
The Swing
Painting by Jean-Honor Fragonard -
Period: to
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
He was a French painter from the Neoclassical era. One of his art pieces is Grande Odalisque. -
Period: to
Michel Eugene Chevreul
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Period: to
Louis Daguerre
Credited with taking the first known photograph of a human being; used a photographic process called "daguerreotype" which is an image on an iodine-sensitized silvered plate; discovered that you can expose the light for less time (~10-15 minutes) and use chemical emulsion to extract the picture -
The Death of Marat
Painting by Jacques Louis David. Both Marat and David were French revolutionaries, and because of Marat's skin disease, he would do his work from his bathtub. This painting shows him right after he was murdered, holding the letter from his murderer- Charlotte Corday. -
Portrait of the Artist
Painting by Jacques Louis David -
House of Death
Painted by William Blake -
Period: to
Henry Fox Talbot
Developed the calotype, an early photographic process that was an improvement upon Daguerre's daguerrotype. These calotypes involved the use of a photographic negative, from which multiple prints could be made. In this technique, a silver chloride coated paper was exposed to light in a camera obscura. The areas hit by light became dark in tone, yielding a negative image. By using gallic acid, exposure times went from one hour to one minute. -
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Painting by Jacques-Louis David -
Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -
La Grande Odalisque
An odalisque oil painting done by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. There are a lot of Persian elements to this painting. -
The Raft of the Medusa
A classic painting of the Romantic Movement by Theodore Gericault. This painting is based on the story of The Medusa, a French naval vessel that ran aground. There were approximately 400 people on board when there were really only supposed to be around 250. As a result, 146 of them were squeezed onto a hastily constructed wooden raft. After 13 days at sea, only 15 out of those 146 people survived. -
Period: to
Roger Fenton
One of the first war photographers; took the picture "Valley of the Shadow of Death" -
Period: to
Gustave Courbet
A French painter who was a strong leading figure in the Realism era. -
Napoleon Bonaparte Death Mask
A day and a half after Napoloen's death, Dr. Francesco Antommarchi created a death mask out of a mixture of wax or plaster -
First Photograph
Joseph Nicephore Niepce took the first known photograph and printed it on a metal plate using emulsion. The photo was named "View from the Window at Le Gras" and the exposure took several days, as evidenced by the light reflecting off both sides of the building. This photographic process was called heliography- literally translated to "sundrawing". -
Venus and Adonis
An oil painting created by Peter Paul Rubens -
Period: to
Ogden Rood
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Period: to
Edouard Manet
He was a French painter that lived during the Realism through Impressionism time periods. One of his most famous pieces is Olympia. -
L'Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture -
Self Portrait
Painting by Eugene Delacroix -
Boulevard du Temple
"Boulevard du Temple" is a significant step in the development of photography because the objects in the picture are no longer blurry masses of light and dark, but defined and separate structures. The only people in the picture are a man having his shoes shined by another. The reason for this is because everyone else was moving and the camera could not pick up on them with the low exposure time, making them invisible. -
George Sand
Painting by Eugene Delacroix -
Period: to
Paul Cezanne
He was a French Post-Impressionist painter -
Self Portrait
One of many self portraits done by Gustave Courbet -
Period: to
Mary Cassatt
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Period: to
Ilya Repin
A Russian Realist painter that was very influential during his time. -
Period: to
Mary Cassatt
An American painter and printmaker that focused her talents on portraying women as independent. One of her paintings is Maternite. -
Osage Scalp Dance
Painting by Jon Mix Stanley -
Portrait of Baudelaire
Painting by Gustave Courbet -
Period: to
Abbott H. Thayer
An American artist that enjoyed painting and did side research on the animal kingdom. Thayer studied how animals were able to conceal themselves in the wild. This led him to became famous for his work in military camouflaging. -
Period: to
Vincent van Gogh
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Period: to
Vincent van Gogh
He's a Post-Impressionist painter that created many amazing artworks throughout his life -
Valley of the Shadow of Death
Roger Fenton's most famous photograph features a desolate and featureless landscape. The cannonballs that are scattered all over stand in for the massive amount of human casualties on the battlefield. This photograph may also be one of the oldest known examples of a staged photograph because there is speculation that Fenton and his crew moved some of the cannonballs into the frame. This leads to the questioning of differentiating truth from photography. -
Hemispherical Color System
Michel Chevreul created this system because he believed the previous color systems needed to account for the gradient of light. -
Olympia
An oil painting done on canvas by Edouard Manet. It is an odalisque that was influenced by Titian's Venus of Urbino. This painting is different than most odalisques because Manet made the woman looking directly at the viewer in almost a challenging stare. -
Period: to
Albert Henry Munsell
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Le Dejeuner sur I'herbe
Edouard Manet creates this painting and began a new style called Impressionism. -
A Harvest of Death
Photographs of dead Union soldiers scattered across the land after the Battle of Gettysburg taken by Timothy O'Sullivan -
Woman with a Parrot
An oil painting on canvas created by Gustave Courbet. It is the odalisque that became the first nude to be accepted into the Paris Salon. -
The Artist in His Studio
Painting by James Abbot McNeill Whistler -
Period: to
Wassily Kandinsky
A Russian painter that was part of the expressionism movement. -
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
An oil painting created by James McNeil Whistler -
Self Portrait
Painting by Camille Pissarro -
The Gross Clinic
Painted by Thomas Eakins -
Modern Chromatics
Ogden Rood wrote this book which divides color into 3 constants. -
Self Portrait
Painting by Edouard Manet -
L'Inconnue de la Seine
Also known as 'The Forgotten of the Seine", this creepy death mask is of a young woman whose body was pulled from the Seine River sometime in the 1880's. A pathologist at the morgue was so intrigued by the woman's face that he made a plaster casting of her face. This peaceful face later became the model for Resusci Anne, a doll used for CPR training. -
Sick Husband
An oil painting done on canvas by Vassily Maximov. -
Period: to
Pablo Picasso
A Spanish artist that excelled in sculpting, ceramics, painting, and printmaking. He was an important figure in the Cubism movement. -
Bar at the Folies-Bergere
An oil painting done by artist Edouard Manet -
Self-Portrait in front of a Mirror
Painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -
The Potato Eaters
Painted by Vincent VanGogh -
Self Portrait
Painting by Claude Monet -
Self Portrait
One of many self portraits painted by Paul Cezanne -
Vincent van Gogh
Painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Lautrec was in his impressionist phase when he painted his friend van Gogh. By painting him in his profile, Lautrec offered a view that wasn't offered by any of van Gogh's self portraits. -
They Did Not Expect Him
A genre oil painting done on canvas by Ilya Repin. -
The Night Cafe
Vincent van Gogh painted this artwork and intentionally started to make the painting look flat, or 2-Dimensional. -
Portrait of the Artist's Mother
A painting created by Vincent van Gogh -
Period: to
Josef Albers
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Period: to
Giorgio de Chirico
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Self Portraits
In his lifetime van Gogh painted over thirty self portraits. These not only record the changes in his painting technique, but also reveal his psychological decline with complete humility and honesty. This is the last self portrait he painted, and it is arguably his most intense. It shows a very courageous man who is trying to hold himself together as he wrestles his inner demons. -
Maternity
An oil painting created by Mary Cassatt -
Period: to
Marcel Duchamp
Generally considered as the father of conceptual art and a pioneer of Dada, Duchamp was known to question long-held assumptions about what art should be and how it should be made. -
Self Portrait in a Hat
One of many self portrait paintings by Paul Gauguin -
The Banjo Lesson
A painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner that evolved from a set of photographs and illustrations that he made for the periodical Harper's Young People. -
First Film
The Lumiere brothers developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe and unveiled their invention to the public with a brief film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory. -
The Basket of Apples
Painted by Pail Cezanne -
At the Moulin Rouge
An oil painting created by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. -
Woman with Dead Child
Etching by Kathe Kollwitz -
Period: to
Salvador Dali
A Spanish artist who was an influential figure in the surrealist era. -
Munsell Color System
Albert Munsell set out to create a color tree with solid colors. He wanted to a model that specifies colors based of off their hue, chroma, and value. -
Period: to
Frida Kahlo
She is a Mexican painter. Frida's painting were inspired by her Mexican heritage. -
Death and the Maiden
Painting by Marianne Stokes -
He That Is Without Sin
A painting done by Vasilii Polenov -
Tote Mutter
A painting created by Egon Schiele -
Period: to
Louise Bourgeois
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Composition
A series of watercolor and oil paintings that are abstractly placed on the page. -
Period: to
Meret Oppenheim
She was a Swiss artists that was a member of the Surrealist movement -
Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
Painted by Girogio de Chirico -
The Banquet of the Starved
A painting by James Ensor. -
Fountain
One of Duchamp's most famous works, "Fountain" is a standard urinal that was signed and dated "R. Mutt 1917" and placed in a museum. This was considered the first piece of conceptual art, and Duchamp says that people should call it art simply because he calls it art. -
Military camouflage
Designed by Abbott Thayer after many years of researching animal camouflage. -
Marlene
Made by Hannah Hoch -
Evening Attire
Photograph by James Van DerZee, who was an African-American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. -
Dia de los Muertos
Painting by Diego Rivera -
Period: to
Andy Warhol
An American artist that is a leading figure in the pop art movement. -
Period: to
Claes Oldenburg
An American sculptor -
The Futurist Cookbook
A book written by F.T. Marinettian Fillia -
Period: to
Crime Scene Photos
Between the 1930's and 1950's, freelance photographer Weegee was best known for his gritty, sensationalistic photographs of crime scenes in New York City -
Period: to
Daniel Spoerri
A Swiss artist that is best known for his assemblage art projects. -
Strangling Angel
Made by Meret Oppenheim -
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
In this book, the author Walter Benjamin discusses a shift in perception and its affects in the rising popularity of film and photography in the 20th century. He proposes that the aura of a work of art is devalued by mechanical reproduction. -
Period: to
Rasheed Araeen
A conceptual artist -
Migrant Mother with Three Children
One photograph from a series that portrays a woman and her children in a pea picker camp. This picture was photographed by Dorothea Lange. -
Le Déjeuner en Fourrure
A sculpture of an English cup covered in fur made by Meret Oppenheim. -
Death Series
A print series based on the theme of death by Kathe Kollwitz -
Two Fridas
An oil painting done by Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. It is a self portrait of herself in her 2 cultures, Mexican and a European dress. -
Freedom from Want
An oil painting made by Norman Rockwell -
Seated Man
Painting by Alberto Giacometti -
Period: to
Mona Hatoum
A video artist from Palestine. -
Crucifixion
An oil painting on canvas done by artist Salvador Dali. -
Pantone
Larry Herbert came up with a system to match colors to make it easier for companies to specify printing inks. -
The Seventh Seal
In this film, a man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. -
Period: to
Keith Harring
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Period: to
Keith Haring
An American artist who's part of the pop art movement. He has a prominent style. One of his artworks includes the Fertility Series, which was made on Rives paper using a silkscreen. -
International Klein Blue
European artist, Yves Klein created a shade of blue that he patented as his own. Klein called it International Klein Blue, or IKB. -
Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe
A cubist interpretation of Edouard Manet's impressionistic painting. It was remade by Pablo Picasso. -
Prose Poems
Created by Daniel Spoerri -
Anthropometry of the Blue Period
A piece of abstract art done by Yves Klein. He used female bodies and had them wipe blue paint over their bodies to use as paintbrushes. -
Walking Man I
This sculpture by Alberto Giacometti attempts to integrate motion and time into a static object and is an emblem of the grim realities of the post WWII consciousness. -
Make a Salad
This exhibition of creating a literal salad was done by artist Allison Knowles. -
Campbell's Soup Cans
A painting created by artist Andy Warhol -
Floor Burger
An sculpture made by Claes Oldenburg. The burger was made with acrylic painted on canvas that was filled with cardboard and rubber. -
Interaction of Color
German painter, Josef Albers published his book called Interaction of Color. The book talks about different color theories and illusions. -
Kichka's Breakfast
An installation created by Daniel Spoerri -
Twelve Electric Chairs
Photos by Andy Warhol -
Triomphe de Moules
A sculpture made by Marcel Broodhaers. She bought an iron pot, filled it with mussel shells, and painted the entire thing to make it look more realistic. -
Seated Woman and Child
A sculpture/installation created by Juan Miro -
The Door (Admissions Office)
This installation by David Hammons shows an admissions-office door featuring imprints from a black-pigment-coated body pressed against the window. Created in the first decades of desegregation, the work makes for a relevant commentary on today's educational system, which continues to leave disproportionate numbers of black children behind. -
Bas Jan Ader
Ader was known for his "falling" films, in which he purposefully fell off of buildings and trees in order to capture an image -
Rothko Chapel
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Literaturwurst
Literary sausages made by Dieter Roth -
Self Portraits
Pablo Picasso's constantly changing aesthetic is evident in his series of self portraits, which he painted from age 15-90. -
Period: to
Wangechi Mutu
An contemporary artist -
The Holy Mountain
A film produced by Alejandro Jodorowky that features Jesus -
Food
This restaurant was made by Carol Goodden, Tina Girouard, and Gordon Matta-Clark -
Body Print
These works by David Hammons entailed the artist smearing his own body—and sometimes his clothes and hair—with a grease such as margarine, pressing himself against board or paper, and then setting the grease with a dusting of pigment. -
Interior Scroll
Performance art done by Carolee Schneeman. She inserted a paper inside her vagina and kept pulling it out as she read off of it. -
Body Print
Color pigment on paper done by artist David Hammons. -
Silueta Series
Photographed by Ana Mendieta -
House #3
Francesca Woodman experimented a lot with exposure in her photography, this one she took when she was eighteen years old -
TV Buddha
An installation that consists of a stone statue of Buddha and a camera that feeds the video to a tv. It was created by Nam June Paik. -
Bus Rider Series
A photo series by Cindy Sherman in which she poses as bus riders of varying ethnicity. She appears as blackface in many of them, which is obviously highly controversial -
Period: to
Kehinde Wiley
An American artist that is known for taking famous heroic poses in art and integrating black people into them. -
Quilting Time
Painting by Romare Bearden -
Fallen Angel
Painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat. It has been suggested that this image could be symbolic of Basquiat's own sense of destiny or personal mission. He certainly had a sense of destiny, suggesting to friends that he knew he would be a famous artist and would die young. -
Starification Object Series
A gelatin silver print done by Hannah Wilke -
Fertility Series
A pop art styled series that was done by Keith Harring. It is on silkscreen on Rivas paper. -
Performance Still
Created by Mona Hatoum -
Founded (Guerrila Girls)
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Higher Goals
Higher Goals consists of five telephone poles with more than 10,000 bottle caps each ranging in height from 20’ to 30’. Mounted at the top of each pole is a backboard complete with hoop and net. In a labor-intensive process, He explained the concept behind Higher Goals with an analogy to professional basketball teams. “It takes five to play on a team, but there are thousands who want to play—not everyone will make it, but even if they don’t at least they tried.” -
Portrait (Futago)
A reinterpretation of Edouard Manet's Olympia. It was done by Yasumasa Morimura. -
Stereo Styles
Photographed by Lorna Simpson -
Bismullah
Made by Rasheed Araeen -
Cornered
This installation by Adrian Piper entangles viewers spatially and intellectually in the moral, social, and political complexities of racial determination. Positioned defensively in a corner behind an upturned table, the video features the artist speaking directly to viewers, informing them about the history of miscegenation in America and challenging people to honestly address their black ancestry. -
Untitled #215
Painting by Cindy Sherman -
Untitled #216
Cindy Sherman photographs herself parodying female stereotypes-
here she poses as the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus. Her stoic posture and demurely downcast eyes, her blue mantle, and the lace backdrop all imitate the conventions of northern Renaissance painting, yet the plastic breast awkwardly affixed to her chest and her creased robes betray the artificiality of the photograph. -
Guarded Conditions
This series of photographs by Lorna Simpson speaks overtly of the violence that black women face because of their gender and skin color. The photographs within the six panels line up imperfectly, breaking up the woman’s body even as they appear to combine into a whole image of her. The title suggests that the woman must protect herself from the threats named below the frames: “sex attacks” and “skin attacks.” -
Buddha Statue of Hyderabad
A stone statue that stands in Hyderabad, India. -
The Kitchen Table Series
A series of photographs by Carrie Mae Weems in which she took a photo of herself every day at her kitchen table, hoping to tell the story of the woman she was playing. -
Untitled
Artists Felix Gonzalez Torres wrapped 175 pounds of brightly colored candy in cellophane -
Immediate Family
Created by Sally Mann, this is a photography book that portrays Mann's children in different ways. -
Mining the Museum
An installation done by Fred Wilson -
Mining the Musuem
An installation by Fred Wilson in which he juxtaposed ornate silver pitchers, flacons, and teacups with a pair of iron slave shackles in oder to highlight the history of African Americans. -
The Temple of All Religions
A brightly colored temple in Kazan, Russia that represents different cultures throughout its architecture. It was designed by Ildar Khanov. -
The Couple in a Cage
This was a performance art piece by artists Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco whose work sought to make visible the history of abuse, captivity and exploitation of indigenous peoples. -
Spider
A sculpture created by Louise Bourgeois that uses stainless steel, bronze, and marble. -
New Mothers Series
A series of photographs taken by Rineke DIjkstra that depicts mothers with their newly born child. -
Untitled
An art piece created by Rudolf Stingel and made out of cast urethane rubber. -
Wigs
Wigs, by Lorna Simpson, is a collection of hair pieces, depicting everything from Afros and braided hair to blond locks and doll wigs. The twenty-one panels of wigs and seventeen smaller text panels are printed on felt—itself a material with hair-like texture. Affixed to the wall with pins, the images and text look like scientific specimens. -
Assembly
Installation by Terry Adkins of an arrangement of materials retrieved from 68 Jay Street -
The Chromatic Diet
Created by Sophie Calle -
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
This installation is a satirical rendition of Thomas Gainsborough's painting, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, from 1750. -
The Swing (after Fragonard)
Yinka Shonibare’s The Swing (after Fragonard) is based on a painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing (1767) which depicts an aristocratic young woman in a frothy pink dress sweeping through a garden on a swing. -
Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial
Also known as the Nameless Library, it is a cast of the inside of a library by Rachel Whiteread. It speaks of a cultural space of memory and loss created by the genocide of the Jews during the Holocaust -
Stern
Painting by Marlene Dumas -
Self Portrait Nursing
Photographed by Catherine Opie -
O Tempo Lento Do Corpo Que e Pele
This installation was done by artist Ernesto Neto. -
Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp
Print by Kara Walker -
Love
Maren Hassinger uses pink plastic shopping bags inflated with human breath and containing love notes -
Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps
A remake of Jacques Louis David's painting done by Kehinde Wiley, where he made the heroic Napoleon into a black man. -
Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps
In this painting, Kehinde Wiley transforms the traditional portrait by David by substituting an anonymous young black man dressed in contemporary clothing for the figure of Napoleon. The artist thereby confronts and critiques historical traditions that do not acknowledge black cultural experience. Wiley presents a new brand of portraiture that redefines and affirms black identity and simultaneously questions the history of Western painting. -
Ice T
A painting by Kehinde Wiley- by replacing the original figure with black men, Wiley gives them the same power and authority that the Western figures had to his 21st century subjects. -
The Wonder Gaze
Series of photos by Ken Gonzales-Day in which he removes the lynching victims bodies and leaves everything else unchanged. This shifts the focus from the original spectacle and object of shame to the crowd in attendance. -
The Giant 2
Sculpture by David Altmejd -
Erased Lynching Series
A series of photographed that have been altered based on lynching. It was photographed by artist Ken Gozales-Day. -
Parangoles
Done by Helio Oiticica's -
Untitled
Installation by Rodney McMillian -
Momme Portrait Series
A photography series taken by LaToya Ruby Frazier of her mother and herself. It is meant to make the viewer think about their heritage and how there culture is treated in society. It is made out of gelatin silver photographs. -
Manywa Buddhas
Two giant Buddha statues in Burma. One is posed standing straight up, while the other is laying across the hill -
30 Americans
30 Americans showcases art by many of the most important African-American artists of the last three decades. This provocative exhibition focuses on issues of racial, gender, and historical identity in contemporary culture while exploring the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations. -
Untitled
A taxidermied horse with a pole and sign sticking out of it that reads 'INRI'- which translates to English as "Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews" -
Winter Solstice 2012 Dinner Party
An oil painting on canvas created by Nicole Eisenman -
Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe
An acrylic and enamel painting done by Mickalene Thomas -
RGB Colorspace Atlas
American artist, Tauba Auerabach printed 3 books, each 8"x8"x8", which contain every color imaginable. Auerabach called it the RGB Colorspace Atlas because each book was dedicated to exploring the three different color schemes of the three different color channels (red, blue, and green). -
A Place for Nature
Maren Hassinger uses wire rope to mimic organic forms, as if tree branches are stacked in squares but also loop upward in fluid swoops. -
Ruffneck Constructivists
Curated by Kara Walker, the works in this show do not communicate straight politics or solutions, though in Walker’s words that is “the background hum.” Instead, the exhibition focuses on structure and space as it is made and remade by policed bodies and identities. -
Speak Louder
An installation put together by Nick Cave. -
Speak Louder
The work unites seven of Nick Cave’s Soundsuits in one powerful ensemble – under a shimmering cloak of pearlescent buttons bringing individuals together into a figurative landscape. Cave draws strong visual parallels between the collected Soundsuits and the jazz-funeral processions of New Orleans, which often feature similarly spectacular outfits and lively brass marching bands. It speaks somberly to our losses – and encourages us to continue fighting for a better future. -
No Seconds
Series of photographs by Henry Hargreaves in which he recreated the last meals of criminals on death row -
Sunday Night Dinner
An oil painting on canvas made by Nicole Eisenman -
Double Cross
Double Cross is a large-scale installation by Theaster Gates is composed of plywood crates containing the umbrellas, saw blade, plates, pitchers, toothpaste tubes, tambourine, and other items that Gates and his team acquired while rebuilding the Huguenot House. -
The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music
A visual and musical journey through the fantastical funeral traditions and rituals of South Vietnam by the Propeller Group -
Claim
Created by William Pope L -
Asphalt and Chalk
Using white chalk on black asphalt paper, Titus Kaphar sketched Michael Brown, Sean Bell, Amadoi Diallo, and Trayvon Martin, overlaying their faces on top of each other to confuse the viewer. The disorienting result aims to signify the growing list of young, black men whose lives have been unfairly taken by police brutality. -
Invisible Presence- Bling Memories
Ebony G. Patterson staged Invisible Presence- Bling Memories during Jamaica's carnival in 2014. It inserted and asserted a moment of presence for those who may not otherwise have agency to do so themselves -
You Are My Sunshine
A collage painting on paper done by artist Wangechi Mutu -
Soundsuit
These sculptural forms based on the scale of the body camouflage the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender, and class, forcing the viewer to look without judgment. -
Radical Presence
Presenting a rich and complex look at this important facet of contemporary art, the exhibition chronicles the emergence and development of black performance art across three generations, beginning with Fluxus and conceptual art in the early 1960s through present-day practices. -
A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
A large scale sculpture made out of pure sugar. It was created by Kara Walker.
