Gordon Matta-Clark’s interventions explored modernist architecture and urban decay.
Location: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
When an artist erases another artist's drawing, is it still a drawing, and whose? This work challenges the art definitions and contexts of its time.
In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing ...
In a series that occupied most of his career, Motherwell addresses the violence of the Spanish Civil War.
Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic ...
This is one of the most important objects of twentieth-century Euro-American visual culture. But… is it art?
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
How do you make a nineteenth-century masterpiece ask twentieth-century questions?
Roy Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral Set V
Women’s labor and the passage of time are evoked in this sculpture constructed of organic materials.
Jackie Winsor, #1 Rope
Diego is sturdy, solid, unmoving. Frida looks out, quizzically, and with her hand on his, seems to be breaking free.
Frida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego Rivera
In this canvas, Kiefer transformed architecture meant to honor Nazi heros into a memorial for their victims.
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