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 is considered the founder of Video Art.
Who is Nam Jun Paik?
"The Crossing" by Bill Viola utilized these two opposing elements.
What are fire and water?
They sit on Rapa Nui, or more commonly Easter Island
What are the moai?
This work includes the words "Ornithology, Dizzy, Teeth, Alchemy," as a reference to jazz musicians.
What is "Horn Players," Jean Michel Basquiat?
Osorio's "No Crying Allowed In The Barbershop," challenges this gendered display of attitude.
What is Machismo?
The Guggenheim Bilbao used this unique metal to create a reflective effect that utilized surface and sunlight
What is titanium?
These two artworks feature women holding animals
What are Pink Panther by Jeff Koons and Lying with the Wolf by Kiki Smith?
Rembrandt's wife, featured in a self portrait
Who is Saskia?
This work features banned Farsi poetry as part of the image.
What is "Rebellious Silence," by Shirin Neshat?
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?
"The Swing (After Fragonard)" critiques the legacy of colonialism through this process and material.
What is Dutch Wax-Printed Textiles?
The Swing (after Fragonard):The Swing as The Kiss by Klimt:The Kiss by __________
Who is Brancusi?
These boards tell the storied histories of the Luba tribe
What are Lukasa (memory boards)?
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?
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?
Kara Walker's work utilizes this 19th century domestic folk-art medium.
What is Silhouetting?
Julie Mehretu's "Stadia II" includes drawings referencing this historic gathering place.
What is the Roman Coliseum?
These three gazelle fur-covered objects speak to Surrealist art.
What are a cup, saucer, and spoon?
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?
Jeff Koons' work embraces this concept that Post-Modernism refused to cross into.
What is kitsch?
This work/artist uses raw, organic materials to create a hollow figure representing the brutality of war.
What is "Androgyne III" by Magdalena Abakanowicz?
Pisupo translates to pea soup in this language
What is Samoan?
So much to read from a French couple disinterested in one another...
What is Tête à Tête from Marriage à-la-mode?