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El Anatsui

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Ghana, Three Angles, 2018, mixed media

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Willem de Kooning

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US, Woman VI, 1953, oil on canvas

Abstract Impressionism, series of six

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Richard Hamilton

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UK, “just what is it that makes today’s home so different?”, 1956, collage

Pop-art, being constantly surrounded by magazines and being sold things

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Frank Stella

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Die Fahne Hoch!, 1959, US, enamel paint on canvas

Named after Nazism, Minimalism

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Tony Smith

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Die, 1962, US, steel

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Robert Mapplethorpe

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Man in a Polyester suit, 1980, US, photograph

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Robert Smithson

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The Spiral Jetty, 1970, US, long-term installation and earthworks

You can walk on the spiral. Changes with the ebb and flow of the water. Example of moving out of the museum with earthworks

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Richard Serra

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The Matter of Time, 2005, US, cor-ten steel

Looks like a snake

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Gerhard Richter

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Onkel Rudi, 1965, West Germany, oil on canvas

Looks like a window cleaner wiped over it

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Alex de Corte

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Rubber Pencil Devil, 2018, neon tubing, video, installation, US

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Matthew Barney

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The Cremaster Cycle, 2003, US, installation

Represents genetic engineering and puberty among other things

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Anselm Kiefer

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Twilight of the West, 1989, West Germany, lead sheet, synthetic polymer paint, ash, plaster, cement, earth, varnish on canvas and wood

Post-war art, trauma, lead is a metaphor and contrasts the railroad tracks

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Joseph Kosuth

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One and three chairs, US, 1965, wooden fold up chair, mounted photographic copy of a chair, photographic enlargement of the dictionary definition of a chair

Conceptualism. Was at the MoMA

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Andreas Gursky

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99 Cent, 1999, Germany, chromogenic color print

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Jenny Holzer

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Offset Poster, 1977-79, US, installation

From truisms

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Tracy Emin

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My bed, 1998, UK, mattress, linen, pillows, objects

Bed is like diary open in a museum, mental illness is the subject of the piece

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Robert Rauschenberg

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Bed, 1955, US, mixed media

Made of a bed sheet- half of bed is his half is his partner’s. Looks like a paint-splattered bed sheet.

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Philip Guston

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Pit, 1976, US, oil on canvas

Has horseshoes that are symbolic

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Philip Goodwin and Edward Stone

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MoMA 1938-39 NY

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Yoshio Taniguchi

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MoMA 1999-2004 NY

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Takashi Murakami

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Tan Tan Bo Puking aka Gero Tan, Japan, 2002, acrylic on canvas

Impressive for acrylic. Mutation that might occur after the atomic bomb. Psychedelic look supposedly and possibly unintentional. Has figures everywhere

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Christopher Ofili

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The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996, UK, paper collage, oil paint, polyester resin, glitter, map pins and elephant dung on linen

Wanted to ground it in the earth itself

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Kara Walker

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Slavery! Slavery!, 1997, US, cut paper on wall

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Jeff Koons

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Puppy, US, 1992, stainless steel, soil and flower plants

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Judy Chicago

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The Dinner Party, 1974-79, US, mixed media and installation

Feminist commentary

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Martha Rosler

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Cleaning the drapes, 1967-72, US, cut and pasted printed paper on board

War just outside the window. About the Vietnam war

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Frank Gehry

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Guggenheim museum, Bilbao, 1991-97

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro

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The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2008

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Jeff Wall

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Dead Troops Talk (a vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986), 1992, Canada, transparency in lightbox

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Taveras Stachan

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The Encyclopedia of Invisibility, 2018, Bahamas, neon lights

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Rem Koolhaas/OMA

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CCTV Headquarters, 2002-2012, Beijing

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Louise Bourgeois

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Spider, 1997, French/US, installation

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Glenn Ligon

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(Untitled) Four Etchings, 1992, US, etchings and aquatint

“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.” The black is more noticeable against the white

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Damien Hirst

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The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991, UK, tiger shark, formaldehyde, glass, steel

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From smoke and tangled waters, we carried fire home

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Postcommodity, 2018, US, steel, coal, glass

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Andy Warhol

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Marilyn, 1962, US, screen print ink and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Repetition creates difference

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Helio Orticicia

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Eden Project, Brazil, 1969, installation and performance

People in Brazilian dancing costumes

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Joseph Beuys

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I like America and America likes me, 1974, West Germany, performance

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The Interior Scroll

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Carolee Schneemann, 1975, US, performance

Powerful, feminism

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Koyo Kouoh with grad students including Emi Finkelstein

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Dig where you stand, Senegal, 2018, institutional critique

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Maya Yin Lin, US, 1982, black granite

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