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AP Fart History
All 250 works with artist, date, and associated idea!
| Work | Information |
|---|---|
| Apollo 11 Stones | Prehistoric peoples, Namibia c. 25,500–25,300 BCE Portable art; prehistoric representation/symbolism |
| Great Hall of the Bulls | Paleolithic peoples, Lascaux, France c. 15,000–13,000 BCE Cave painting; sympathetic magic/hunting imagery |
| Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine | Tequixquiac culture, Central Mexico c. 14,000–7000 BCE Ritual object; transformation and symbolism |
| Running horned woman | Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria c. 6000–4000 BCE Composite figure; ritual/shamanistic imagery |
| Beaker with ibex motifs | Susa, Iran c. 4200–3500 BCE Stylized animal motifs; geometric abstraction |
| Anthropomorphic stele | Arabian Peninsula c. 4000 BCE Funerary/ritual monument; stylized human form |
| Jade cong | Liangzhu culture, China c. 3300–2200 BCE Ritual jade object; cosmology/spiritual power |
| Stonehenge | Neolithic peoples, England c. 3000–1600 BCE Megalithic architecture; ritual/astronomical alignment |
| The Ambum Stone | Ambum Valley, Papua New Guinea c. 1500 BCE Ritual sculpture; ancestral/spiritual significance |
| Tlatilco female figurine | Tlatilco culture, Mexico c. 1200–900 BCE Fertility/duality symbolism |
| Terra cotta fragment | Lapita culture, Solomon Islands c. 1000 BCE Decorative pottery; geometric patterning |
| White Temple and its ziggurat | Sumerian culture, Uruk (Iraq) c. 3500–3000 BCE Ziggurat architecture; religious devotion |
| Palette of King Narmer | Ancient Egypt, Early Dynastic Period c. 3000–2920 BCE Unification propaganda; hierarchical scale |
| Statues of votive figures (Tell Asmar) | Sumerian culture c. 2700 BCE Worship/perpetual prayer; wide-eyed devotion |
| Seated scribe | Ancient Egypt, Old Kingdom c. 2620–2500 BCE Realism; elite literacy/status |
| Standard of Ur | Sumerian culture c. 2600–2400 BCE Narrative register; war and peace themes |
| Great Pyramids & Great Sphynx | Ancient Egypt, Old Kingdom c. 2550–2490 BCE Monumentality; divine kingship |
| King Menkaura and Queen | Ancient Egypt, Old Kingdom c. 2490–2472 BCE Idealized royal portraiture |
| Temple of Amun-Re & Hypostyle Hall | Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom c. 1550–1250 BCE Monumental sacred architecture |
| Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut | Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom c. 1473–1458 BCE Funerary temple; harmony with landscape |
| Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters | Amarna Period, Egypt c. 1353–1335 BCE Amarna style; intimacy/naturalism |
| Tutenkhamun's tomb, innermost coffin | Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom c. 1323 BCE Funerary luxury; afterlife beliefs |
| Last Judgement of Hunefer (Book of the Dead) | Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom c. 1275 BCE Book of the Dead; judgment in afterlife |
| Lamassu | Assyrian culture c. 720–705 BCE Guardian figure; imperial power |
| Athenian Agora | Greek civilization c. 600 BCE–150 CE Civic/public space; democracy |
| Anavysos Kouros | Archaic Greek c. 530 BCE Archaic smile; idealized youth |
| Peplos Kore | Archaic Greek c. 530 BCE Votive sculpture; naturalistic drapery |
| Sarcophagus of the Spouses | Etruscan culture c. 520 BCE Funerary art; companionship |
| Audience Hall (Apadana) | Persian Empire (Achaemenid) c. 520–465 BCE Imperial architecture; multicultural empire |
| Temple of Minerva & Apollo of Veii | Etruscan, Vulca of Veii c. 510–500 BCE Dynamic terracotta sculpture |
| Tomb of the Triclinium | Etruscan culture c. 480–470 BCE Fresco painting; banquet scenes |
| Niobides Krater | Classical Greek c. 460–450 BCE Red-figure vase painting; mythology |
| Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer) | Polykleitos c. 450–440 BCE Canon of proportions; contrapposto |
| Acropolis: Parthenon | Classical Greek, Athens c. 447–432 BCE Ideal proportion; civic religion |
| Grave stele of Hegeso | Classical Greek c. 410 BCE Funerary commemoration |
| Winged Victory of Samothrace | Hellenistic Greek c. 190 BCE Dramatic movement/theatricality |
| Great Altar of Zeus and Athena | Hellenistic Greek, Pergamon c. 175 BCE High drama; emotional intensity |
| House of the Vettii | Roman culture, Pompeii 2nd century CE Domestic luxury; illusionistic painting |
| Alexander Mosaic | Roman copy after Greek original c. 100 BCE Hellenistic realism; historical drama |
| Seated boxer | Hellenistic Greek c. 100 BCE Realism; emotional suffering |
| Head of a Roman patrician | Roman Republic c. 75–50 BCE Verism; ancestor veneration |
| Augustus of Prima Porta | Roman Empire early 1st century CE Imperial propaganda; idealization |
| Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) | Roman Empire c. 70–80 CE Engineering; entertainment/power |
| Forum of Trajan | Roman Empire, Apollodorus of Damascus c. 106–112 CE Urban planning; imperial glory |
| Pantheon | Roman Empire c. 118–125 CE Concrete engineering; divine cosmos |
| Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus | Late Roman Empire c. 250–260 CE Crowded composition; anti-classicism |
| Catacomb of Priscilla | Early Christian, Rome c. 200–400 CE Christian symbolism; funerary art |
| Santa Sabina | Early Christian, Rome c. 422–432 CE Basilica architecture; plain exterior |
| Vienna Genesis | Early Byzantine early 6th century CE Illuminated manuscript; luxury codex |
| San Vitale | Early Byzantine, Ravenna c. 526–547 CE Byzantine architecture; mosaics, imperial Christianity |
| Hagia Sophia | Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, Byzantine Empire c. 532–537 CE Dome engineering; divine light/mysticism |
| Merovingian looped fibulae | Merovingian/Frankish culture mid-6th century CE Cloisonné metalwork; status ornament |
| Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George | Byzantine 6th or early 7th century CE Icon devotion; frontal spirituality |
| Lindisfarne Gospels | Hiberno-Saxon (Insular) c. 700 CE Illuminated manuscript; intricate interlace |
| Great Mosque, Córdoba | Umayyad Spain (Islamic) begun 785–786 CE Hypostyle mosque; horseshoe arches |
| Pyxis of al-Mughira | Umayyad Spain c. 968 CE Ivory carving; royal luxury object |
| Church of Sainte-Foy | Romanesque, France c. 1050–1130 CE Pilgrimage church; relic veneration |
| Bayeux Tapestry | Norman/English Romanesque c. 1066–1080 CE Historical narrative embroidery |
| Chartres Cathedral | Gothic, France c. 1194–1220 CE Gothic architecture; stained glass, verticality |
| Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX / Apocalypse Scenes | Gothic France c. 1225–1245 CE Illuminated manuscript; moralized Bible |
| Röttgen Pietà | German Gothic c. 1300–1325 CE Emotional devotion; suffering of Christ |
| Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel | Giotto di Bondone c. 1303–1305 CE Proto-Renaissance naturalism |
| Golden Haggadah | Sephardic Jewish, Spain c. 1320 CE Illuminated manuscript; Passover narrative |
| Alhambra | Nasrid Dynasty, Islamic Spain 1354–1391 CE Islamic palace design; geometric ornament |
| Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece) | Workshop of Robert Campin c. 1427–1432 CE Northern Renaissance realism; symbolism |
| Pazzi Chapel | Filippo Brunelleschi begun c. 1429 CE Renaissance harmony; classical balance |
| Arnolfini Portrait | Jan van Eyck 1434 CE Northern Renaissance detail; symbolism |
| Donatello's David | Donatello c. 1440–1460 CE Renaissance humanism; classical revival |
| Palazzo Rucellai | Leon Battista Alberti c. 1450 CE Renaissance architecture; classical order |
| Madonna and Child with Two Angels | Fra Filippo Lippi c. 1465 CE Renaissance softness/naturalism |
| Birth of Venus | Sandro Botticelli c. 1484–1486 CE Neoplatonism; mythological beauty |
| Last Supper | Leonardo da Vinci c. 1494–1498 CE High Renaissance balance; psychology |
| Adam and Eve | Albrecht Dürer 1504 CE Northern Renaissance precision |
| Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes | Michelangelo 1508–1512 CE High Renaissance idealism |
| School of Athens | Raphael 1509–1511 CE Renaissance humanism; classical philosophy |
| Isenheim Altarpiece | Matthias Grünewald c. 1512–1516 CE Emotional intensity; Northern Renaissance |
| Entombment of Christ | Jacopo da Pontormo 1525–1528 CE Mannerism; elongated forms |
| Allegory of Law and Grace | Lucas Cranach the Elder c. 1530 CE Protestant Reformation imagery |
| Venus of Urbino | Titian 1538 CE Venetian Renaissance sensuality |
| Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza | Aztec/Mexica with Spanish colonial influence c. 1541–1542 CE Colonial documentation; Indigenous history |
| Il Gesù | Jesuit/Baroque, Rome c. 1568–1584 CE; ceiling c. 1676–1679 Counter-Reformation; Baroque illusionism |
| Hunters in the Snow | Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1565 CE Northern Renaissance landscape |
| Mosque of Selim II | Mimar Sinan 1568–1575 CE Ottoman mosque design; centralized dome |
| Calling of Saint Matthew | Caravaggio c. 1597–1601 CE Baroque drama; chiaroscuro |
| Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de’ Medici | Peter Paul Rubens c. 1621–1625 CE Baroque movement; political allegory |
| Self-Portrait with Saskia | Rembrandt van Rijn c. 1636 CE Dutch Baroque realism |
| San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane | Francesco Borromini 1638–1646 CE Baroque architecture; dynamic curves |
| Ecstasy of Saint Teresa | Gian Lorenzo Bernini c. 1647–1652 CE Baroque theatricality; mysticism |
| Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei | Master of Calamarca, Colonial Andes c. 17th century CE Syncretism; colonial religious art |
| Las Meninas | Diego Velázquez 1656 CE Baroque realism; illusionism |
| Woman Holding a Balance | Johannes Vermeer c. 1664 CE Dutch realism; quiet symbolism |
| Palace at Versailles | French monarchy, Louis XIV begun 1669 CE Absolutism; Baroque grandeur |
| Screen with Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene | Mexican, Viceregal/colonial c. 1697–1701 CE Cross-cultural decorative art |
| Virgin of Guadalupe | Miguel González c. 1698 CE Colonial religious syncretism |
| Fruit and Insects | Rachel Ruysch 1711 CE Dutch still life; scientific observation |
| Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo | Attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez c. 1715 CE Casta painting; colonial hierarchy |
| The Tête à Tête (Marriage à la Mode) | William Hogarth c. 1743 CE Rococo satire; moral critique |
| Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz | Miguel Cabrera 1750 CE Colonial portraiture; intellectual identity |
| A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery | Joseph Wright of Derby c. 1763–1765 CE Enlightenment science; dramatic light |
| The Swing | Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1767 CE Rococo; aristocratic leisure/flirtation |
| Monticello | Thomas Jefferson begun 1768 CE Neoclassicism; Enlightenment ideals |
| The Oath of the Horatii | Jacques-Louis David 1784 CE Neoclassicism; civic virtue/patriotism |
| George Washington | Jean-Antoine Houdon 1788–1792 CE Neoclassical portraiture; republican virtue |
| Self-Portrait | Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun 1790 CE Rococo/Neoclassicism; self-fashioning |
| Y no hai remedio (And There’s Nothing to Be Done) | Francisco de Goya c. 1810–1823 CE Romanticism; anti-war critique |
| La Grande Odalisque | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1814 CE Neoclassicism/Orientalism |
| Liberty Leading the People | Eugène Delacroix 1830 CE Romanticism; revolution/nationalism |
| The Oxbow | Thomas Cole 1836 CE Romanticism; Hudson River School |
| Still Life in Studio | Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre 1837 CE Early photography/daguerreotype |
| Slave Ship | J. M. W. Turner 1840 CE Romanticism; sublime/nature and morality |
| Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament) | Charles Barry and A. W. N. Pugin 1840–1870 CE Gothic Revival |
| The Stone Breakers | Gustave Courbet 1849 CE Realism; labor and class |
| Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art | Honoré Daumier 1862 CE Satire; modernity/photography |
| Olympia | Édouard Manet 1863 CE Realism/Proto-Modernism; confrontation |
| The Saint-Lazare Station | Claude Monet 1877 CE Impressionism; modern life/light |
| The Horse in Motion | Eadweard Muybridge 1878 CE Motion photography; scientific observation |
| The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel | José María Velasco 1882 CE National landscape painting |
| The Burghers of Calais | Auguste Rodin 1884–1895 CE Expressive realism |
| The Starry Night | Vincent van Gogh 1889 CE Post-Impressionism; emotional expression |
| The Coiffure | Mary Cassatt c. 1890–1891 CE Impressionism; domestic intimacy |
| The Scream | Edvard Munch 1893 CE Expressionism; anxiety/existential dread |
| Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? | Paul Gauguin 1897–1898 CE Symbolism/Post-Impressionism |
| Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building | Louis Sullivan 1899–1903 CE Chicago School; steel-frame modernity |
| Mont Sainte-Victoire | Paul Cézanne c. 1902–1904 CE Post-Impressionism; form/structure |
| Les Demoiselles d’Avignon | Pablo Picasso 1907 CE Cubism/Proto-Cubism; fragmentation |
| The Steerage | Alfred Stieglitz 1907 CE Modernist photography |
| Klimt's The Kiss | Gustav Klimt 1907–1908 CE Symbolism/Art Nouveau |
| Brancusi's The Kiss | Constantin Brancusi 1907–1908 CE Modern sculpture; simplification |
| The Portuguese | Georges Braque 1911 CE Analytical Cubism |
| Goldfish | Henri Matisse 1912 CE Fauvism; color experimentation |
| Improvisation 28 (second version) | Vasily Kandinsky 1912 CE Abstract art/Expressionism |
| Self-Portrait as a Soldier | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1915 CE German Expressionism |
| Memorial Sheet of Karl Liebknecht | Käthe Kollwitz 1919–1920 CE Expressionism; political mourning |
| Villa Savoye | Le Corbusier 1928–1931 CE International Style/Modernism |
| Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow | Piet Mondrian 1930 CE De Stijl; geometric abstraction |
| Illustration from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan | Varvara Stepanova 1932 CE Constructivism/Soviet propaganda |
| Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) | Meret Oppenheim 1936 CE Surrealism; uncanny object |
| Fallingwater | Frank Lloyd Wright 1936–1939 CE Organic architecture |
| The Two Fridas | Frida Kahlo 1939 CE Surrealism/personal identity |
| The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49 | Jacob Lawrence 1940–1941 CE Social realism/Harlem Renaissance |
| The Jungle | Wifredo Lam 1943 CE Surrealism/Afro-Cuban identity |
| Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park | Diego Rivera 1947–1948 CE Mexican muralism/history |
| Fountain (second version) | Marcel Duchamp original 1917, replica 1950 CE Dada; readymade art |
| Woman, I | Willem de Kooning 1950–1952 CE Abstract Expressionism |
| Seagram Building | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson 1954–1958 CE International Style |
| Marilyn Diptych | Andy Warhol 1962 CE Pop Art; celebrity culture |
| Narcissus Garden | Yayoi Kusama 1966 CE Installation art; repetition/selfhood |
| The Bay | Helen Frankenthaler 1963 CE Color Field painting |
| Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks | Claes Oldenburg 1969–1974 CE Pop Art; antiwar monument |
| Spiral Jetty | Robert Smithson 1970 CE Land Art/Earthworks |
| House in New Castle County | Robert Venturi, John Rausch, and Denise Scott Brown 1978–1983 CE Postmodern architecture |
| Chavín de Huántar | Chavín culture, Peru c. 900–200 BCE Religious pilgrimage center |
| Mesa Verde cliff dwellings | Ancestral Puebloan culture c. 450–1300 CE Cliff architecture; communal living |
| Yaxchilán | Maya civilization c. 725 CE Maya architecture; dynastic power |
| Great Serpent Mound | Mississippian/Fort Ancient culture, Ohio c. 1070 CE Earthwork; cosmology/ritual |
| Templo Mayor (Main Temple) | Mexica/Aztec c. 1375–1520 CE Sacred architecture; dual deities |
| Ruler’s feather headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II) | Mexica/Aztec c. 1428–1520 CE Royal regalia; sacred symbolism |
| City of Cusco (Qorikancha, Santo Domingo, Saqsa Waman) | Inka civilization and Spanish colonial c. 1440 CE onward Imperial city planning; cultural layering |
| Maize cobs | Inka c. 1440–1533 CE Ritual offering; precious materials |
| City of Machu Picchu | Inka civilization c. 1450–1540 CE Sacred/royal site; harmony with nature |
| All-T’oqapu tunic | Inka c. 1450–1540 CE Elite textile; status symbolism |
| Bandolier bag | Lenape (Delaware) people c. 1850 CE Cultural identity; beadwork tradition |
| Transformation mask | Kwakwaka’wakw people, Pacific Northwest late 19th century CE Ceremonial transformation/spirituality |
| Painted elk hide | Attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody) c. 1890 CE Narrative ledger art |
| Black-on-black ceramic vessel | Maria Martínez and Julian Martínez c. 1939 CE Pueblo pottery revival |
| Petra: Treasury and Great Temple | Nabataean civilization, Jordan c. 400 BCE–100 CE Rock-cut architecture; trade wealth |
| Bamiyan Buddha | Buddhist, Afghanistan c. 400–800 CE Monumental Buddhist sculpture |
| The Kaaba | Islamic, Mecca pre-Islamic origins; current form c. 631–632 CE onward Pilgrimage center (Hajj); sacred focus |
| Jowo Rinpoche, Jokhang Temple | Tibetan Buddhist believed 7th century CE Sacred devotional image |
| Dome of the Rock | Umayyad Islamic 691–692 CE Islamic architecture; sacred monument |
| Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh), Isfahan | Islamic Persian c. 700–1400 CE Four-iwan mosque plan |
| Folio from a Qur’an | Abbasid Islamic 8th–9th century CE Calligraphy; aniconism |
| Basin (Baptistère de Saint Louis) | Muhammad ibn al-Zain c. 1320–1340 CE Islamic luxury metalwork |
| Bahram Gur Fights the Karg | Ilkhanid Persian c. 1330–1340 CE Persian manuscript painting |
| The Court of Gayumars | Persian Safavid, by Sultan Muhammad c. 1522–1525 CE Persian miniature painting |
| Ardabil Carpet | Safavid Persian 1539–1540 CE Islamic textile design |
| Great Stupa at Sanchi | Buddhist, India c. 300 BCE–100 CE Buddhist pilgrimage architecture |
| Terra cotta warriors | Qin Dynasty, China c. 210 BCE Funerary protection; imperial power |
| Funeral banner of Lady Dai | Han Dynasty, China c. 180 BCE Afterlife cosmology |
| Longmen caves | Chinese Buddhist c. 493–1127 CE Buddhist rock-cut sculpture |
| Gold and jade crown | Silla Kingdom, Korea 5th–6th century CE Royal status; shamanistic symbolism |
| Tōdai-ji | Japanese Buddhist begun 743 CE Buddhist monumental architecture |
| Borobudur Temple | Sailendra Dynasty, Indonesia c. 750–842 CE Buddhist mandala architecture |
| Angkor Wat | Khmer Empire, Cambodia c. 1113–1150 CE Hindu-Buddhist temple mountain |
| Lakshmana Temple | Chandella Dynasty, India c. 930–950 CE Hindu temple architecture |
| Travelers among Mountains and Streams | Fan Kuan c. 1000 CE Song Dynasty landscape painting |
| Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja) | Chola Dynasty, India c. 11th century CE Hindu cosmic dance symbolism |
| Night Attack on the Sanjō Palace | Japanese Kamakura period c. 1250–1300 CE Narrative handscroll |
| The David Vases | Yuan Dynasty, China 1351 CE Blue-and-white porcelain |
| Portrait of Sin Sukju | Korean Joseon Dynasty c. 15th century CE Confucian portrait realism |
| Forbidden City | Ming/Qing Dynasty, China 1406–1420 CE Imperial architecture |
| Ryōan-ji | Japanese Zen Buddhist late 15th century CE Zen rock garden/minimalism |
| Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings | Bichitr c. 1615–1618 CE Mughal miniature; hierarchy/spirituality |
| Taj Mahal | Mughal India 1632–1653 CE Funerary architecture; symmetry |
| Red and White Plum Blossoms | Ogata Kōrin c. 1710–1716 CE Rinpa school decorative painting |
| Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Great Wave), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji | Katsushika Hokusai c. 1830–1833 CE Ukiyo-e printmaking |
| Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan | Liu Chunhua 1969 CE Socialist Realism/propaganda |
| Nan Madol | Saudeleur Dynasty, Micronesia c. 700–1600 CE Ceremonial architecture |
| Moai on platform (ahu) | Rapa Nui (Easter Island) culture c. 1100–1600 CE Ancestor veneration |
| ‘Ahu ‘ula (feather cape) | Hawaiian culture late 18th century CE Royal regalia/status |
| Staff god | Rarotonga, Cook Islands 18th–19th century CE Polynesian spirituality |
| Female deity | Nukuoro, Micronesia 18th–19th century CE Sacred sculpture |
| Buk (mask) | Torres Strait Islands, Melanesia 19th century CE Ceremonial mask; ancestral/spiritual performance |
| Hiapo (tapa) | Niue, Polynesia c. 1850–1900 CE Barkcloth decoration; cultural identity |
| Tamati Waka Nene | Gottfried Lindauer 1890 CE Colonial portraiture; Māori identity |
| Navigation chart | Marshall Islands, Micronesia 19th–early 20th century CE Indigenous navigation knowledge |
| Malagan display and mask | New Ireland, Papua New Guinea late 19th–20th century CE Funerary ritual; ancestral commemoration |
| Presentation of Fijian Mats and Tapa Cloths to Queen Elizabeth II | Fijian culture 1953 CE Ceremonial exchange; diplomacy |
| The Gates | Christo and Jeanne-Claude 1979–2005 CE Environmental/temporary installation art |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial | Maya Lin 1982 CE Minimalism; memorialization/healing |
| Horn Players | Jean-Michel Basquiat 1983 CE Neo-Expressionism; jazz/African American identity |
| Summer Trees | Song Su-Nam 1983 CE Ink painting revival |
| Androgyne III | Magdalena Abakanowicz 1985 CE Figurative abstraction; postwar trauma |
| A Book from the Sky | Xu Bing 1987–1991 CE Conceptual art; language critique |
| Pink Panther | Jeff Koons 1988 CE Pop art/consumer culture |
| Untitled #228 | Cindy Sherman 1990 CE Postmodern identity/performance |
| Dancing at the Louvre | Faith Ringgold 1991 CE Narrative quilt; Black identity |
| Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People) | Jaune Quick-to-See Smith 1992 CE Indigenous critique/assemblage |
| Earth’s Creation | Emily Kame Kngwarreye 1994 CE Aboriginal Dreaming/abstraction |
| Rebellious Silence (Women of Allah series) | Shirin Neshat; photo by Cynthia Preston 1994 CE Feminism; identity/politics |
| En la barbería no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) | Pepón Osorio 1994 CE Installation art; Latino identity |
| Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000) | Michel Tuffery 1994 CE Environmental critique/globalization |
| Electronic Superhighway | Nam June Paik 1995 CE Video art/media culture |
| The Crossing | Bill Viola 1996 CE Video installation; spirituality |
| Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | Frank Gehry 1997 CE Deconstructivist architecture |
| Pure Land | Mariko Mori 1998 CE Digital/media spirituality |
| Lying with the Wolf | Kiki Smith 2001 CE Feminist/body symbolism |
| Darkytown Rebellion | Kara Walker 2001 CE Race/history critique; silhouette art |
| The Swing (After Fragonard) | Yinka Shonibare 2001 CE Postcolonial critique |
| Old Man’s Cloth | El Anatsui 2003 CE Recycled materials/global trade |
| Stadia II | Julie Mehretu 2004 CE Layered abstraction/globalization |
| Preying Mantra | Wangechi Mutu 2006 CE Feminism/hybrid identity |
| Shibboleth | Doris Salcedo 2007–2008 CE Installation; exclusion/borders |
| MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts | Zaha Hadid 2009 CE Contemporary fluid architecture |
| Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) | Ai Weiwei 2010 CE Conceptual art; mass production/individuality |
| Code of Hammurabi | Babylonian culture c. 1792–1750 BCE Law and divine authority |
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