Africa
In African masks, this feature often exaggerates human or animal characteristics to convey supernatural power or social role.
What is stylisation?
This cubic structure in Mecca is the most sacred site in Islam and the focal point of the hajj pilgrimage.
What is The Kaaba?
This collection includes designs from the Yuan Chinese dynasty pottery, with white porcelain and cobalt-blue glaze.
What is the David Vases?
This Oceanic island has hundreds of Moai statues that are sculpted and carved of volcanic rock and basalt.
What is Rapa Nui? Also accept: Easter Island?
Like a reimagined embodiment of the 1767 work of the same name, "The Swing (after Fragonard)" by Yinka Shonibare uses this type of art in a collection of found objects.
What is an installation?
This building is one of the most unique religious sites in the world found in present-day Mali, and is the largest mud-built structure in the world.
What is the Great Mosque of Djenné?
This rock-carved structure from the 1st century CE is Petra’s most iconic structure.
What is The Treasury? Also accept: Al-Khazneh
This Cambodian shrine-- its name meaning "City Temple"-- is the largest religious monument in the world, containing 1,200 square meters of carved low relief.
What is Angkor Wat?
From the Presentation of Fijian Mats to Queen Elizabeth II, this object, made from beaten bark and often decorated with geometric patterns, symbolizes pride, respect and cultural identity.
What is a tapa cloth?
This contemporary Puerto Rican installation literally translates to "No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop".
What is "En la Barberia, No Se Llora"?
Worn during ceremonies by the Bamileke people of Cameroon, this elaborately decorated mask features elephant motifs and symbolizes royalty, power, and the connection to ancestors.
What is the Elephant Mask?
The Dome of the Rock features this type of exterior tilework with vibrant patterns and inscriptions from the Qur’an.
What is mosaic? Also accept: Arabic calligraphy
This ukiyo-e woodblock print is commonly referred to as one of the famous pieces to come out of Japan, and is a part of a series named “Thirty six works from the view of Mount Fujii”.
What is the Great Wave off Kanagawa?
These red Hawaiian garments were worn by males in the 19th century to show nobility and status.
What are ‘ahu’ula?
This 20th century contemporary artist is one of the most prevalent faces in pop art, creating the famous Marilyn Monroe diptych and paintings of Campbell Soup cans.
Who is Andy Warhol?
This term describes a ceremonial figure or object, often carved from wood, used to communicate with ancestors or spirits.
What is a reliquary figure?
The Great Mosque, or Masjid-e Jameh, is a staple of the Persian Empire and is located in this city.
What is Isfahan, Iran?
This year marked the creation of the infamous oil painting, “Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan”.
What is 1969? Also accept any year within 10 years.
This work features smooth, geometric forms and simplified human figures, which likely represent ancestral spirits or a female deity.
What are the Wooden sculpture from Nukuoro? Also accept: Female deity
This contemporary artist created the infamous "Kui Hua Zi", a collection of over 100 million ceramic handmade sunflower seeds.
Who is Ai Weiwei?
The Female (Pwo) Mask was made and worn by men, but its purpose is to honor women who have bravely survived childbirth, which represents this aspect of their society.
What is matrilineal society? Also accept: matriarchy
Many Islamic structures like the Great Mosque of Isfahan show an influence from these two previous empires.
What are the Persian and Byzantine empires?
Modelled after the Tang Dynasty architectural styles, these two works contain some of the most well-known early displays of Mahavairocana.
What are The Great Buddha of Todai-ji (Nara/Japan) and Vairocana Buddha at Longmen Caves (Luoyang/China)?
Once the political center for the chiefs of the Sau Deleur dynasty, this land is made up of 100 artificial rectilinear islets spread over 200 acres.
What is Nan Mandol?
This motive sprung the creation of the 1994 photograph "Rebellious Silence" made by Shirin Neshat in the collection, "Women of Allah".
What is the Islamic Revolution?