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Art:21 has partnered with Davis Art Images to produce slides and digital images of select works of art featured in the series. Selected images support and reinforce use of the Art:21 Educators' Guides and online curricular resources, and their availability marks the first time many of these artists’ images are accessible for classroom use.

Slide sets for the Art:21 series are available as a set or individually from Davis Art Images (phone: 1-800-533-2847).


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season one


Laurie Anderson Performance of United States Part II, 1980
Matthew Barney Cremaster 4: The Isle of Man, installation view, 1995-1996
Matthew Barney The Cabinet of Gary Gilmore and Nicole Baker, 1999-2000
Matthew Barney The Cabinet of Gary Gilmore and Nicole Baker (detail), 1999-2000
Louise Bourgeois Cell (Eyes and Mirror), 1989-1993
Michael Ray Charles After Black (To See or Not to See), 1997
Michael Ray Charles Before Black (To See or Not to See), 1997
Michael Ray Charles Beware, 1994
Michael Ray Charles (Forever Free) Buy Black, 1997
Mel Chin & Gala Committee Government Issue, 1997
Mel Chin & Gala Committee Rodney King (Sam’s Lade Paintings – Sunny L.A. series), 1997
Mel Chin & Gala Committee Think of the Re-Runs, 1997
John Feodorov Man, Fish and Club, 2000
John Feodorov Office Myth, 1995
John Feodorov Totem Teddy, 1989-1998
Ann Hamilton Lineament, installation view, 1994
Ann Hamilton Lineament, close-up of seated figure lifting and winding cut text in a continuous line from prepared book, 1994
Margaret Kilgallen Installation, UCLA Hammer Museum, a room, February to April, 2000
Margaret Kilgallen Installation, UCLA Hammer Museum, detail, February to April, 2000
Margaret Kilgallen Installation, UCLA Hammer Museum, one end of gallery, February to April, 2000
Margaret Kilgallen Installation, UCLA Hammer Museum, work on paper (figure of a woman), February to April, 2000
Beryl Korot Anordnung, 1986
Beryl Korot; Steve Reich The Cave, performance between interviewees and musicians, 1993
Barbara Kruger Untitled (When I hear the word culture, I take out my checkbook), 1985
Maya Lin Civil Rights Memorial, 1989
Sally Mann Coke in the Dirt, 1989
Sally Mann Untitled, #30 from the Deep South series, 1998
Sally Mann Yard Eggs, 1991
Kerry James Marshall Souvenir III, 1998
Barry McGee Installation, UCLA Hammer Museum, a room, February to June, 2000
Barry McGee Installation, UCLA Hammer Museum, detail, February to June, 2000
Barry McGee Installation, UCLA Hammer Museum, detail, February to June, 2000
Barry McGee Installation, UCLA Hammer Museum, detail, February to June, 2000
Barry McGee Installation, UCLA Hammer Museum, detail, February to June, 2000
Bruce Nauman Stadium Piece, 1998-1999
Bruce Nauman Violins Violence Silence, 1981-1982
Pepón Osorio Badge of Honor (detail, son’s bedroom), 1996
Richard Serra Switch, 1999
Shahzia Sikander Hood’s Red Rider #2, 1997
Shahzia Sikander Uprooted Order #1, 1997
James Turrell Cross-Cut (Wedgework series), 1998
James Turrell Roden Crater, from the southwest, 1986
James Turrell Roden Crater, view of East Portal Entryway, 2000
William Wegman Front Façade, 1993
William Wegman On Set, 1994
William Wegman Patriotic Poodle, 1994
Andrea Zittel A-Z 1994 Living Unit II, 1994


season two

Eleanor Antin Karsavina (left) and Nijinsky (right), from Before the Revolution, 1979
Eleanor Antin The Golden Death, from The Last Days of Pompeii, 2001
Eleanor Antin Portrait of Antinova, 1986
Janine Antoni Lick and Lather, 1993
Janine Antoni Saddle, 2000
Janine Antoni Mortar and Pestle,
Vija Celmins Untitled (Big Sea #1), 1969
Vija Celmins Untitled (Web #2), 2001
Vija Celmins Constellation—Uccello, 1983
Walton Ford The Forsaken, 1999
Walton Ford The Sensorium, 2003
Walton Ford Falling Bough, 2002
Trenton Doyle Hancock Ferroneous and the Monk, 1999
Trenton Doyle Hancock Strudi Flooo, 2002
Trenton Doyle Hancock Esther, 2002
Tim Hawkinson Emotor (detail), 2001
Tim Hawkinson Überorgan, 2000
Tim Hawkinson Wall Chart of World History from Earliest Times to the Present, 1997
Elizabeth Murray Stirring Still, 1997
Elizabeth Murray Bop, 2002-2003
Elizabeth Murray Worm's Eye, 2000
Gabriel Orozco Horses Running Endlessly, 1995
Gabriel Orozco Ball on Water, 1994
Raymond Pettibon No Title (Well, you needn't...), detail, 1997
Raymond Pettibon No Title (There is a touch of poetry...), 1997
Raymond Pettibon No Title (I must tell...), 2002
Paul Pfeiffer Dutch Interior, 2001
Paul Pfeiffer Race Riot, 2001
Paul Pfeiffer The Long Count (Rumble in the Jungle), 2001
Martin Puryear Vessel, 1997-2002
Martin Puryear Untitled I, 2002
Martin Puryear Ladder for Booker T. Washington, 1996
Collier Schorr Matthew/Occupation/Barbarossastraße, 2001
Collier Schorr Player, 1998
Collier Schorr Blow-Up, 1999
Kiki Smith King Kong, 2002
Kiki Smith Pietà, 1999
Kiki Smith Pyre Woman with Knees Extended, 2002
Do-Ho Suh Public Figures, 1999
Do-Ho Suh Some/One, 2001
Do-Ho Suh Floor, 1997-2000
Kara Walker Slavery! Slavery! presenting a GRAND and LIFELIKE Panoramic Journey into Picturesque Southern Slavery or 'Life at Ol' Virginny's Hole (sketches from Plantation Life)' See the Peculiar Institutions as never before! All cut from black paper by the able hand of Kara Walker, an Emancipated Negress and leader in her Cause, 1997
Kara Walker Cut, 1998
Kara Walker Darkytown Rebellion, 2001


season three

Laylah Ali Untitled (Greenheads), 1999
Laylah Ali Untitled, 2000
Laylah Ali Untitled, 2002
Laylah Ali Untitled, 2003
Laylah Ali Untitled, 2004
Ida Applebroog Digital Outtake of Works in Progress, 2005
Ida Applebroog Untitled (Red Lips), 2002
Ida Applebroog Emetic Fields, 1989
Ida Applebroog Crimson Gardens,1986
Ida Applebroog Marginalia II, 1991
Cai Guo-Qiang Inopportune: Stage One, 2004
Cai Guo-Qiang Inopportune: Stage Two, 2004
Cai Guo-Qiang Transient Rainbow, 2002
Cai Guo-Qiang Bird of Light, 2004
Cai Guo-Qiang Inheritance: Exploding Jan Hoet’s Portrait, 2003
Ellen Gallagher Isaac from DeLuxe, 2004-05
Ellen Gallagher DeLuxe, 2004-2005
Ellen Gallagher Watery Ecstatic Series, 2001
Ellen Gallagher Blubber, 2000
Ellen Gallagher Bubbel, 2001
Arturo Herrera Untitled, 1997-1998
Arturo Herrera When Alone Again, 2001
Arturo Herrera Untitled, 2003
Arturo Herrera Before We Leave, 2001
Arturo Herrera Untitled, 2003
Oliver Herring Pure Sublimation, 2000-01
Oliver Herring CHRIS AFTER HOURS OF SPITTING FOOD DYE OUTDOORS, 2004
Oliver Herring Double Rocker, 1999
Oliver Herring GLORIA, 2004
Oliver Herring The Sum and Its Parts, 2000
Roni Horn You are the Weather, 1994-95
Roni Horn Doubt by Water, 2003-2004
Roni Horn Key and Cue, No. 288, 1994
Roni Horn Dead Owl, 1997
Roni Horn Still Water (The River Thames, for Example) - Image C, 1999
Mike Kelley Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #s 2 through 32 (Day is Done), 2004-05
Mike Kelley Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #s 2 through 32 (Day is Done), 2004-05
Mike Kelley Kelley Dialogues, 1991
Mike Kelley Educational Complex, 1995
Mike Kelley More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin, 1987
Josiah McElheny Modernity circa 1952, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely, 2004
Josiah McElheny Modernity circa 1952, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely, 2004 (detail)
Josiah McElheny Charlotte Perriand, Carlo Scarpa, others (White), 2000
Josiah McElheny From an Historical Anecdote about Fashion, 2000
Matthew Ritchie The Fast Set, 2000
Matthew Ritchie The Dead: Belphegor, 2004
Matthew Ritchie Installation view: Proposition Player, 2003
Matthew Ritchie Self-Portrait in 2064, 2003
Matthew Ritchie The Lytic Circus, 2004
Susan Rothenberg Red Studio, 2002-03
Susan Rothenberg Chix, 2003
Susan Rothenberg Mares and Foals, 2002
Susan Rothenberg Dominos-Hot, 2001-2002
Susan Rothenberg Impending Doom, 1996-97
Jessica Stockholder 1995
Jessica Stockholder 2003
Jessica Stockholder Nit Picking Trumpets of Iced Blue Vagaries, 1998
Jessica Stockholder Vortex in the Play of Theatre with Real Passion: In Memory of Kay Stockholder, 2000
Jessica Stockholder Photo Cut Up, 2005
Hiroshi Sugimoto Devonian Period, 1992
Hiroshi Sugimoto Boden Sea, Uttwil, 1993
Hiroshi Sugimoto La Boîte en Bois (Wooden Box) (Replica of Duchamp's "Large Glass"), 2004
Hiroshi Sugimoto Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier, 1998
Hiroshi Sugimoto Anne Boleyn, 1999
Richard Tuttle Monkey’s Recovery for a Darkened Room (Bluebird), 1983
Richard Tuttle There’s No Reason a Good Man is Hard to Find III, 1988
Richard Tuttle Warm Brown (92.1.94), 1994
Richard Tuttle Waferboard 4, 1996
Richard Tuttle “Village I, Sculpture I”, 2003
Fred Wilson Convocation, 2004
Fred Wilson By Degree, 1995
Fred Wilson Drip Drop Plop, 2001
Fred Wilson Guarded View, 1991
Fred Wilson Safe House II, (Speak of Me as I Am), 2003
Krzysztof Wodiczko Hirshhorn Museum, October 1988
Krzysztof Wodiczko The Hiroshima Projection, August 7-8, 1999
Krzysztof Wodiczko Homeless Vehicle, 1988-1989
Krzysztof Wodiczko The Tijuana Projection, February 23-24, 2001
Krzysztof Wodiczko The Tijuana Projection, February 23-24, 2001
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