Kaphar takes a violent history and renders it visible in this modified portrait of Andrew Jackson.
Appropriation
Chilkat weaving has been practiced by Tlingit for hundreds of years; here modernity and tradition weave together.
Clarissa Rizal, Resilience Robe
Haring’s subway drawings were born from his desire to create art that was accessible for everyone.
Keith Haring, Subway Drawings
Wiley wryly places himself alongside the great master painters of history with his reimagined Napoleon.
Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over ...
Richter revives the genre of history painting in the 21st century in this work showing the events of 9/11.
Gerhard Richter, September
John Cage and Richter never met, but there was a kinship between these two artists with diverse practices.
Gerhard Richter, The Cage Paintings (1-6)
Hyperreal paintings like “Betty” are just one part of Richter’s practice, which resists stylistic classification.
Gerhard Richter, Betty
Haacke documents the provenance of a Seurat sketch held in a bank vault to lay bare the commodification of art.
Hans Haacke, Seurat’s “Les Poseuses” (small version), ...
This British-born Nigerian artist brings a Rococo painting into three dimensions, changing some critical details.
Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard)
In this canvas, Kiefer transformed architecture meant to honor Nazi heros into a memorial for their victims.
Anselm Kiefer, Shulamite
Cheap fabric with a garish print becomes an eerie specter of surveillance thanks to some creative chemistry.
Sigmar Polke, Watchtower series
Hugh Hefner turned women into objects, and Sigmar Polke turned those objects into dots.
Sigmar Polke, Bunnies
Richter toys with both visual and ethical clarity in this evocative, ambiguous painting of an uncle lost to WWII.
Gerhard Richter, Uncle Rudi
Koons’ cartoonish life-size emblems of childhood innocence are an assault upon both sincerity and taste.
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