Contemporary Classics

Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith of Hammer & Tongs, Coffee and TV video for Blur, 1999

Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith’s Iconic Sentient Milk Carton for Blur

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Olafur Eliasson, Ice Watch, Photo: Matt Alexander/PA Wire

Ice, Flow, Nowhere to Go: Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch

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Michel Gondry, video for The White Stripes, Fell in Love With a Girl, still

Brick by Brick: Michel Gondry’s Lego Video for the White Stripes

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Break Down, Michael Landy, 2001. An Artangel commission. Photo by Hugo Glendinning

How Break Down by Michael Landy Is Subverted in the Digital Age

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Test Site by Carsten Höller at the Tate Modern, London

Down the Long Slide: Carsten Höller’s Test Site

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Stanley Donwood, Radiohead Kid A cover

Stanley Donwood’s Chilling, Prescient Artwork for Radiohead’s Kid A

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1000 Eggs: For Women (2018) at the New Museum, New York

Sarah Lucas got Women to Throw 1000 Eggs at the Wall

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Lisa Reihana , In Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015-17 (detail) © Image courtesy of the artist and ARTPROJECTS

Colonial Pasts Are Confronted in Lisa Reihana’s Moving Wallpaper

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Fire It Up! Bill Viola’s Lady in Flames

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Still from Witch, 2015, Image courtesy of Edouard Malingue Gallery and the artist.

Wong Ping’s World-Weary Witch

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Harmony Korine, Trash Humpers, (2009), still

Harmony Korine’s Grotesquely Comedic Trash Humpers

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Hans Op de Beeck, Cabinet of Curiosities at Galerie Ron Mandos. Pictured left: Tatiana (Soap Bubble), 2018. Pictured right: Wunderkammer 8

Hans Op de Beeck’s Ash-Coated Cabinets

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Weaving the Woodland with Kiki Smith

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That Time Marina Abramović Ate a Raw Onion

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Faith Ringgold, Groovin High, photo: Timothy Schenck, courtesy: Friends of the High Line

Get Your Groove On with Faith Ringgold

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What’s the Time, Mr Marclay?

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Sue Williamson Sends a Collective SOS

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Martine Syms, Lessons I-XXX [film still] 2014. Copyright Martine Syms, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

Martine Syms’s Lessons on Black Radicalism

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JR, Migrants, Mayra, Picnic across the border, Quadrichromie, Tecate, Mexico - U.S.A., 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.

The Cross-Border Banquet that United Mexico and the States

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The Subversive Pleasure of Jenny Holzer’s Truisms

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Hito Steyerl’s Lessons in Invisibility

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Omar Ibn Said Omar Victor Diop

Omar Victor Diop Reconceives Depictions of Africans in Art

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Deride and Conquer: Before the Banksy Boom

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Doug Aitken’s Portrayal of the Jet-Set Life

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