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Edward Hopper's Cape Cod Morning
In Cape Cod Morning, a woman looks out, tempted to the window by the morning sun, narrowing her eyes against the bright light. It is a moment of boundless expectation. But it has been depicted by a man who knew what afternoon and evening would bring, who knew that expectations this great were bound to be disappointed. With the emptiness and loneliness of the evening picture, which he painted first, Hopper anticipated the ultimate meaning of human existence. -
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Amazing Art from 1950-2000
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Salvado Dali's Galatea of the Spheres
Galatea of the Spheres is a painting by Salvador Dalí made in 1952. It depicts Gala Dalí, Salvador Dalí's wife and muse, as pieced together through a series of spheres. The name Galatea refers to a sea nymph of Classical mythology renowned for her virtue, and may also refer to the statue beloved by its creator, Pygmalion. -
Albert Flanagan's Flower Study
Flower Study is a watercolor paiting featured in the Smithsonian Museum of Art. -
Andy Warhol's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans
This print consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches × 16 inches and consisting of a painting of a Campbell's Soup can—one of each of the canned soup varieties the company offered at the time. Campbell's Soup Cans' reliance on themes from popular culture helped to usher in pop art as a major art movement in the United States. -
Roy Lichtenstein's M-Maybe
M-Maybe depicts an attractive girl, which is typical of Lichtenstein's romance comics adaptations. As is a common theme among these works, she awaits a man in a vague but urban setting. The thought bubble reads "M–Maybe he became ill and couldn’t leave the studio". The text and her expression jointly capture her continuing worry and anticipation. -
Anonymous Portrait of Vietnam Soldier
An unidentified American soldier wears a hand-lettered slogan on his helmet, June 1965. The soldier was serving with the 173rd Airborne Brigades on defense duty at the Phuoc Vinh airfield. -
Robert Indiana's LOVE
LOVE is an artwork by American artist Robert Indiana, located at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States. It was created in 1970 as the first sculptural form of the artist's famous LOVE painting and has been on continuous exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art since it was acquired in 1975.[1] -
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson. Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty.
Built on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah entirely of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks and water, Spiral Jetty forms a 1,500-foot-long (460 m), 15-foot-wide (4.6 m) counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore. -
Jørn Utzon's Sydney Opera House
Designed by Jørn Utzon, 2003 Pritzker Prize Laureate
Completed in 1973 under the direction of Peter Hall
Bennelong Point
Sydney, Australia
The Sydney Opera House broke all the rules when it won an international competition in 1957. Today, this Modern Expressionist building is one of the most famous and most photographed structures of the modern era. -
Roy Lichtenstein's Modern Head
Modern Head is an abstract painted steel sculpture, by Roy Lichtenstein. It is located at South Side of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Northwest, Washington, D.C. It was installed on August 27, 2008. -
Hamlisch and Kleban's A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line is a musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and a book by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante. Centred on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line, the musical is set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre during an audition for a musical. A Chorus Line provides a glimpse into the personalities of the performers and the choreographer as they describe the events that have shaped their lives and their decisions to become dancers. -
Annie Leibovitz's John Lennon Rolling Stone Picture
On December 8, 1980, Leibovitz had a photo shoot with John Lennon for Rolling Stone, promising him that he would make the cover. She had initially tried to get a picture with just Lennon alone, which is what Rolling Stone wanted, but Lennon insisted that both he and Yoko Ono be on the cover. Leibovitz then tried to re-create something like the kissing scene from the Double Fantasy album cover, a picture that she loved. -
Frank Romero's Death of Rubén Salazar
Rubén Salazar was a writer for the Los Angeles Times and was active in the civil rights battles of the 1960s. When Chicanos rallied against the Vietnam War on August 29, 1970, the Los Angeles police fired tear-gas canisters into the Silver Dollar Bar, where Salazar was struck and killed. Romero painted Death of Rubén Salazar on the scale of Mexico's revolutionary murals, but used the brilliant colors of the East L.A. barrio. -
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
The idea for the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt was conceived in 1985 by AIDS activist Cleve Jones during the candlelight march, in remembrance of the 1978 assassinations of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. At that time many people who died of AIDS-related causes did not receive funerals, due to both the social stigma of AIDS felt by surviving family members and the outright refusal by many funeral homes and cemeteries to handle the deceased's remains, -
Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist. It consists of a tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde in a vitrine. It was originally commissioned in 1991 by Charles Saatchi, who sold it in 2004, to Steven A. Cohen for an undisclosed amount, widely reported to have been $8 million. -
César Pelli's Petronas Towers
The Petronas Towers, also known as the Petronas Twin Towers (Malay: Menara Petronas, or Menara Berkembar Petronas) are twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)'s official definition and ranking, they were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004 and remain the tallest twin towers in the world. The buildings are a landmark of Kuala Lumpur, along with nearby Kuala Lumpur Tower. -
Dave Chihuly's Yellow Neon Chandelier
“Yellow Neon Chandelier & Persians,” by internationally known glass artist Dale Chihuly, is 900 pieces of hand blown glass in four shades of yellow. The piece is nine feet tall and six feet across at its widest point. It has 50-feet of neon and weighs 1,200 pounds. Part of the Indiana Glass Trail -
Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet
<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMel13nY0PE' >Romeo and Juliet Romeo + Juliet is a 1996 American romantic drama film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It was directed by Baz Luhrmann. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the leading roles. The film is an abridged modernization of Shakespeare's play. While it retains the original Shakespearean dialogue, the Montagues and the Capulets are represented as warring business empires. -
Vincent Ward's What Dreams May Come
ClipWhat Dreams May Come is a 1998 American fantasy drama film, starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Annabella Sciorra and Max von Sydow. The film is based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson, and was directed by Vincent Ward. It won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. -
Ron Mueck's Boy
Ron Mueck created Boy in 1999. It took the artist eight months to progress from a 40 cm high clay maquette to the present almost five metre high sculpture cast in glass fibre. The figure is executed with astonishing attention to detail: the surface of the skin, for instance, is utterly convincing with veins and hair follicles clearly marked. This hyperrealism makes the boy at once a living and compelling presence and yet alien and unreal.
