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100

This work features 58,272 names.

What is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, by Maya Lin? 

100

Mariko Mori's "Pure Land" includes multiple visual references to this religion.  

What is Buddhism?

100

This artist is considered the founder of Video Art.

Who is Nam Jun Paik?

100

"The Crossing" by Bill Viola utilized these two opposing elements.

What are fire and water?

100

They sit on Rapa Nui, or more commonly Easter Island

What are the moai?

200

This work includes the words "Ornithology, Dizzy, Teeth, Alchemy," as a reference to jazz musicians. 

What is "Horn Players," Jean Michel Basquiat?

200

Osorio's "No Crying Allowed In The Barbershop," challenges this gendered display of attitude. 

What is Machismo?

200

The Guggenheim Bilbao used this unique metal to create a reflective effect that utilized surface and sunlight

What is titanium?

200

These two artworks feature women holding animals

What are Pink Panther by Jeff Koons and Lying with the Wolf by Kiki Smith?

200

Rembrandt's wife, featured in a self portrait

Who is Saskia?

300

This work features banned Farsi poetry as part of the image. 

What is "Rebellious Silence," by Shirin Neshat?

300

An artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

What is installation art?

300

"The Swing (After Fragonard)" critiques the legacy of colonialism through this process and material.

What is Dutch Wax-Printed Textiles?

300

The Swing (after Fragonard):The Swing as The Kiss by Klimt:The Kiss by __________

Who is Brancusi?

300

These boards tell the storied histories of the Luba tribe

What are Lukasa (memory boards)?

400

This work creates a fictional narrative about a girl who searches for signs of herself in European art history, and does not see a place for herself.

What is "Dancing at the Louvre," by Faith Ringgold?

400

a custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important.

What is a shibboleth?

400

Kara Walker's work utilizes this 19th century domestic folk-art medium.

What is Silhouetting?

400

Julie Mehretu's "Stadia II" includes drawings referencing this historic gathering place.

What is the Roman Coliseum? 

400

These three gazelle fur-covered objects speak to Surrealist art.

What are a cup, saucer, and spoon?

500

Using invented language and letters, this artist confronts traditions of literacy, printed books, and what can never truly be captured in words. 

What is "A Book From the Sky," by Xu Bing?

500

Jeff Koons' work embraces this concept that Post-Modernism refused to cross into.  

What is kitsch?

500

This work/artist uses raw, organic materials to create a hollow figure representing the brutality of war.

What is "Androgyne III" by Magdalena Abakanowicz?

500

Pisupo translates to pea soup in this language

What is Samoan?

500

So much to read from a French couple disinterested in one another...

What is Tête à Tête from Marriage à-la-mode? 

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