Language & Text
This work features 58,272 names.
What is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, by Maya Lin?
Mariko Mori's "Pure Land" includes multiple visual references to this religion.
What is Buddhism?
This artist's use of abstraction was connected to their Aboriginal history and ritual body-painting.
Who is Emily Kame Kngwarreye?
This artist duo created site-specific monumental works without any public funding.
Who is Christo and Jean Claude?
Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds" are connected to this other historic porcelain work by way of Jingdezhen.
What are "The David Vases?"
This work includes the words "Ornithology, Dizzy, Teeth, Alchemy," as a reference to jazz musicians.
What is "Horn Players," Jean Michel Basquiat?
This art philosophy embraces appropriation of images, irony, and self-referencing.
What is Post-Modernism?
"The Swing (After Fragonard)" critiques the legacy of colonialism through the use of this process and material.
What is Dutch Wax-Printed Textiles?
This artist is considered the founder of Video Art.
Who is Nam Jun Paik?
This structure makes references to traditional Islamic art and the ribbon-walkways of minarets.
What is the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Arts?
This work features banned Farsi poetry as part of the image.
What is "Rebellious Silence," by Shirin Neshat?
Jeff Koons' work embraces this concept that Post-Modernism refused to cross into.
What is Kitsch?
El Anatsui embraces the communal act of creating as a symbolic gesture and visual link back to this cultural textile.
What is the Kente Cloth?
In contrast to Post-Modern abstraction and installation that was en vogue in the late 90s/early 2000s, this artist's work represents a return to representing the human figure
Who is Kiki Smith?
Julie Mehretu's "Stadia II" includes drawings referencing this historic gathering place.
What is the Roman Coliseum?
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?
Osorio's "No Crying Allowed In The Barbershop," challenges this gendered display of male attitude.
What is Machismo?
Kara Walker's work utilizes this 19th century domestic folk-art medium.
What is Silhouetting?
This artist's work can be linked to both Minimalism and Earthworks/Land-Art.
Who is Maya Lin?
Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #228" includes visual references to the biblical story of which two characters?
Who is Judith and Holofernes?
Using invented language and letters, this artist and artwork confront traditions of literacy, printed books, and what can never truly be captured in words.
What is "A Book From the Sky," by Xu Bing?
This contemporary African art movement emphasizes reflecting on the past to succeed in building the future
What is the Sankofa Movement?
This work/artist uses raw, organic materials to create dehumanized forms representing the brutality of war.
What is "Androgyne III" by Magdalena Abakanowicz?
This artist's mixed media works are considered to be at the forefront of Afro-Futurism.
Who is Wangechi Mutu?
Song Su Nam's "Summer Trees" merges western abstraction with this traditional art movement's approach to landscape painting.
What is Literati Painting? (aka Ink Wash Painting)