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A photo of dark room shows one large projection on the wall to the left and on the wall to the right two pedestals with two monitors stacked on top of both. Each screen shows a different view of a red-wigged, red-nosed clown in a striped outfit.

Clown Torture, 1987

Bruce Nauman

A graphic, grotesque painting of a balding, bug-eyed man with white hair and decaying flesh and open boils in dominant shades of gray and magenta, his clothing tattered and torn. Behind him, a crumbling home is suggested through objects and voids of space rendered in swirls of prismatic colors like those reflected by an oil slick: dark purples, greens, blues.

Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943–44

Ivan Albright

Vibrantly colored landscape painting of houses built on a steep hill surrounded by thin, bent trees and a narrow trail or road. Bright orange, red, pink, green, and yellow illuminate the scene.

Landscape at L'Estaque, 1906

Georges Braque

A work made of fluorescent paint and silkscreen ink on linen.

Flowers, 1964

Andy Warhol

A work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Face Mask, Late 19th-early 20th century

Bwa

A work made of oil on cardboard.

Houses at Murnau, 1909

Vasily Kandinsky

Rectangular painting of white, framed by a thin, yellow outline and a thicker, black outline.

Brilliant Yellow #9, 1964/65

Jo Baer

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

A work made of offset ink on paper.

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1999

Studio Blue

A work made of 8-color screen print on paper.

The Books, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago poster, 2009

Sonnenzimmer

Bowl-shaped terracotta vessel with a foot, glazed in red with black figures encircling its body.

Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects), late 6th century BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of oil on canvas.

Rainy Day, 1906

Frank Weston Benson

A work made of letterpress in black on cream laid paper with later covers of tan paper; sheets removed from books.

Art of Engraving, from Encyclopédie, 1751/77

André François Le Breton

Small, dark colored ceramic vessel with a handle and spout at the top. The front of the vessel looks like a face, with two round forms making the eyes, a long, thin form a nose, and an oval form the mouth. Two ear-like shapes protude from the side of the vessel.

Face Jug, c. 1860

Artist unknown

A dark-brown painted sculpture with hints of orange showing through of a slim face with a long neck. The lips are drawn in a pout, the cheeks sunken, the hair pulled back in a swirl pattern and falling down in a slim column.

Head, Mid–late 19th century

Fang

A work made of creamware.

Plate, c. 1790

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, satin, and stem stitches; french knots; two loom widths joined.

Bedcover in the Arts and Crafts Style, Early 20th century (based on 17th–century English designs)

A chaotic but happy kitchen scene: A light-skinned woman in a pink dress at left bends to take a turkey out of the oven, while another at right forms a pie near a small girl playing with a kitten. Behind them, a woman selects dishware as yet another carries a basket of ingredients. A fifth woman in the back puts on a fancy hat and coat near a pair of babies reaching out from their twin high chair.

Thanksgiving, c. 1935

Doris Lee

A work made of steel and aluminum.

Steel-Aluminum Plain, 1969

Carl Andre

A work made of terracotta.

Statuette of a Seated Girl, 330-320 BCE

Ancient Greek

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