Escaping the Confines of the Museum

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty

Jenny Holzer, Truisms

Christo and Jean-Claude, The Gates

Collapsing Boundaries

Between “High” and “Low”

Jeff Koons, Puppy

Takashi Murakami

Rejecting Originality

Sherrie Levine, After Walker EvansWalker Evans

Haim Steinbach, Global Proportions, 2007

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death

Damien Hirst, Turner Prize Exhibition

Nikki Lee, The Hip Hop Project

Nikki Lee, The Hispanic Project #25

Nikki Lee, The Seniors Project

Jouissance

Cecily Brown, New Louboutin Pumps

Cecily Brown, High Society

Working Collaboratively

Robert and Shana Parke Harrison

Jake and Dinos Chapman, Zygotic acceleration, Biogenetic De-sublimated Libidinal Model, 1995

Jake and Dinos Chapman, Hell (detail)

Appropriating

Marcel Duchamp, The Fountain

Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy)

Simulating

Gregory Crewsdon, Plate 19 Twilight

Hybridizing

Jean Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1988

Masami Teraoka, The Cloisters/Birth of Venus (2002-06) Oil on Canvas in Gold Leaf Frame, 90'' x 94''

Mixing Media

Robert Rauschenberg, Stop, 1963

Chris Ofili, Madonna

Sandy Skoglund, The Cocktail Party, 1992

Layering

Barbara Kruger, Your Body is a Battleground 2

Ah Xian

Ah Xian

Mixing Codes

Michael Ray Charles, Cut and Paste

Recontextualizing

Fred Wilson, Baby Carriage from Mining the Museum

Yolanda Lopez, Self Portrait as Virgin of Guadalupe

Yolanda Lopez, Virgin of Guadalupe

Confronting the Gaze

Tracy Emin, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1985

Facing the Abject

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #175

Paul McCarthy, still from Heidi

Kiki Smith, Pee Body

Constructing Identities

Act Up, Read My Lips, 1988

Gran Fury, Silence = Death

Using Narratives

Eric Fischl, Bad Boy, 1981, oil on canvas, 66” x 96”

Creating Metaphors

Do-Ho Suh, Public Figures, 1988

Irony, Parody and Dissonance

James Luna, Take a Picture With a Real Indian