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This collage creates the illusion of both a woman's face and a home interior. Blond hair doubles as curtains in an entryway, while her eyes become framed artwork on the wall. The wall, or the top half of the face, is bright red, and doubles as a face mask.

Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment, 1934–35

Salvador Dalí

A work made of super 8 black-and-white and color film, silent, transferred to 16mm film; 10:50 min. edition number seven of ten.

Splitting, 1974

Gordon Matta-Clark

Roughly painted face of a woman with a thick neck, short black hair, prominent nostrils, and a strung necklace.

Head of a Woman with a Blue Necklace, 1932

Paul Kleinschmidt

A work made of leather binding; covers of velvet, embroidered with chenille and metal thread.

Notebook, 19th century

A work made of cotton, plain weave; block printed; six fragments pieced on panel "a".

Daffodil, Design c. 1891, made 1891–1917

John Henry Dearle

A work made of wool, plain weave; triple cloth; lining: wool, twill weave.

Elmcote, Design c. 1900

John Henry Dearle

Loose, sketchy drawing in black. At left, a tall figure with hands raised as if to dive, outlined against a scribble of black, faces a group of nondescript figures partly in shadow.

Untitled, 1960

James McGarrell

A work made of color screenprint on white wove paper.

Wide Light, plate one from Homage to the Square: Ten Works by Josef Albers, 1962

Josef Albers

Black-and-white photograph of an elevated train station straddling a crowded city street on which vehicles are either parked or blurred by motion.

"El", Sixth Avenue Line, Twenty-Eighth Street Station, Manhattan, November 10, 1938

Berenice Abbott

A work made of 16mm color film, sound, transferred to digital video (projection); 30 min. loop.

A Season Outside, 1997

Amar Kanwar

A work made of 16 mm color film transferred to digital video (projection, silent); 8 min. loop edition number two of three.

Hysteria, 1997

Sam Taylor-Wood

A work made of screenprint in colors on white wove paper.

Untitled, from X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters), 1964

Ad Reinhardt

A work made of various.

Lakeview Avenue Houses, Chicago Illinois, Working Drawings, 1915–1917

Henry Corwith Dangler

Gray letters and numbers spell out words and dates in English that wrap along the top edge of a gallery wall, a corner of which reads, "Rosa 1977 Great Society 1964 Blue Flowers 1984 Silver Ocean 1990 Ross 1983."

"Untitled", 1989

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

A work made of cotton, plain weave; cutwork embroidered with wool in overcast stitch; embroidered with silk and wool in cross, long-armed cross, outline, satin and stem stitches.

Sampler, 1852

Eliza Ryan

A pencil drawing of a butterfly on the lower left of a sheet of paper. The artist’s insignia stamp is in the lower right in blue ink.

Butterfly, c. 1890

James McNeill Whistler

A work made of color woodcut on tan wove paper.

The Rug Weaver, 1912

Gustave Baumann

A work made of silk, satin weave with self-patterning ground wefts.

Kennett, Design 1883, made 1887

William Morris

A work made of oil, over graphite, on brown woodpulp board, prepared with shellac.

The First Step, c. 1912

Constantin Brancusi

A work made of color screenprint on white wove paper.

Joy, plate ten from Homage to the Square: Ten Works by Josef Albers, 1962

Josef Albers

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