Global cultures 1980–now
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Unit 1: Concepts in art: 1980 to now
Beginner's guide
Cold War Germany and after
Anselm Kiefer, Bohemia Lies by the Sea ✓ Check-ins5:28
Anselm Kiefer interview: History is a clay ✓ Check-ins3:24
Anselm Kiefer interview: “My paintings change" ✓ Check-ins4:44
Gerhard Richter, The Cage Paintings (1-6) ✓ Check-ins14:28
Gerhard Richter, Betty ✓ Check-ins4:59
Gerhard Richter, September19:23
Art in the AIDS era
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (L.A.) ✓ Check-ins7:21
Masami Teraoka, American Kabuki ✓ Check-ins5:48
Sue Coe, Aids won't wait, the enemy is here not in Kuwait, 1990 ✓ Check-ins4:42
Pepón Osorio, En la barbería no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) ✓ Check-ins6:50
Sunil Gupta – ‘Being in the Dark Room is Healing’6:03
Post-Cultural Revolution China
Apartheid-era South Africa
Young British Artists and art as commodity
Pictures Generation and post-modern photography
The Case for Copying ✓ Check-ins10:54
Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21 ✓ Check-ins4:23
Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Woman Feeding Bird), The Kitchen Table Series, 1989-90 ✓ Check-ins4:44
Muriel Hasbun, X post facto ✓ Check-ins5:21
Sherrie Levine, Untitled (After Edward Weston, ca. 1925) ✓ Check-ins4:26
Will Wilson interview about The Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange ✓ Check-ins2:55
Sherrie Levine, After Russell Lee: 1-60 ✓ Check-ins5:58
Genesis Báez, Crossing Time ✓ Check-ins4:04
Revisiting histories
Pablita Velarde (Tse Tsan), Awataba Kiva Mural ✓ Check-ins5:21
Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo), Aeronauts, Steu and Cuda ✓ Check-ins4:35
Reflecting on "We the People" ✓ Check-ins4:15
Kara Walker on the dark side of imagination ✓ Check-ins2:05
Romance novels and slave narratives: Kara Walker imagines herself in a book ✓ Check-ins2:38
Turning Uncle Tom's Cabin upside down, Alison Saar's Topsy and the Golden Fleece ✓ Check-ins5:24
An interview with Kerry James Marshall about his series Mementos ✓ Check-ins2:37
Kerry James Marshall, Now And Forever; Elizabeth Alexander, "American Song," Washington National Cathedral ✓ Check-ins9:57
Speaking to past and present, Clarissa Rizal’s Resilience Robe ✓ Check-ins6:20
An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs, Thornton Dial's Blood and Meat ✓ Check-ins6:18
Titus Kaphar, The Cost of Removal ✓ Check-ins5:26
Wendy Red Star, 1880 Crow Peace Delegation ✓ Check-ins6:41
Superman, World War II, and Japanese-American experience (Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941) ✓ Check-ins6:37
Fred Wilson’s museum interventions ✓ Check-ins3:07
History and deception: Kenseth Armstead’s Surrender Yorktown 1781 ✓ Check-ins3:30
Carrie Mae Weems on her series "From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried" ✓ Check-ins2:47
Lam Tung Pang on "A Day of Two Suns (2019)"6:06
Mapping and migration
Borderlands
Figuration, the body, and representation
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Leaving My Reservation to Go to Ottawa and Fight for a New Constitution ✓ Check-ins5:37
Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us ✓ Check-ins3:05
Kehinde Wiley, Rumors of War ✓ Check-ins6:07
Freud, Standing by the Rags ✓ Check-ins3:45
Richard Prince, Nurse Elsa ✓ Check-ins5:35
Catherine Opie, Figure and Landscape series3:24
Stefanie Jackson, Bluest Eye ✓ Check-ins4:58
JooYoung Choi, Journey to the Cosmic Womb ✓ Check-ins5:43
Amy Sherald, Precious Jewels by the Sea ✓ Check-ins4:43
Michelle Browder, Mothers of Gynecology ✓ Check-ins6:11
Tsherin Sherpa, Muted Expressions ✓ Check-ins ✎ Fixed a slip4:44
Shizu Saldamando, Sandra and Tammy, Hollywood Forever ✓ Check-ins6:25
Ilana Savdie, Thirty-Seven Counts and Trismus ✓ Check-ins6:18
Alfred Conteh, Our Greatest Inheritance ✓ Check-ins6:29
Social practice
Arpilleras ✓ Check-ins6:18
Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays and All Fall ✓ Check-ins6:22
Guerrilla Girls, “Dearest Art Collector” ✓ Check-ins5:56
Guerrilla Girls, Advantages of Being a Woman Artist6:04
Guerrilla Girls, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” ✓ Check-ins ✎ Fixed a slip5:04
Michelangelo Lovelace, Streetology ✓ Check-ins6:26
Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds ✓ Check-ins14:42
Theaster Gates, Glass Lantern Slide Pavilion ✓ Check-ins7:41
Public memory and the politics of place
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Native Hosts ✓ Check-ins6:14
Glenn Ligon, Untitled (America) ✓ Check-ins4:15
Kerry James Marshall, Our Town ✓ Check-ins5:16
Preserving Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway ✓ Check-ins5:51
Daniel Libeskind, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, UK ✓ Check-ins6:13
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice ✓ Check-ins6:39
What's in a map? Jaune Quick-To-See Smith's "State Names" ✓ Check-ins5:03
Mark Bradford’s “150 Portrait Tone”7:11
United States Federal Building and Courthouse, Tuscaloosa ✓ Check-ins4:11
Raven Custalow, Puttawus ✓ Check-ins4:59
Landscape and ecology
Inspiration at Yosemite ✓ Check-ins5:21
Lloyd Kiva New, Untitled (Landscape) ✓ Check-ins5:25
A desert on fire, Salgado photographs Kuwait ✓ Check-ins4:24
The landscape remade, Thiebaud's Ponds and Streams ✓ Check-ins4:48
Desert to Suburb, framing the American Dream ✓ Check-ins4:32
James Turrell, Skyspace, The Way of Color ✓ Check-ins4:41
Maya Lin, Ghost Forest ✓ Check-ins4:30
Mapping nature's stunning beauty ✓ Check-ins4:38
Endangered coastlines and lifeways ✓ Check-ins2:55
Beatriz Cortez, Ilopango, The Volcano That Left ✓ Check-ins6:50
Martin Puryear, Lookout ✓ Check-ins5:10
Assemblage and materiality
Toshiko Takaezu, Crater Moon ✓ Check-ins5:18
A body in clay, a work by Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo ✓ Check-ins4:14
El Anatsui, Untitled ✓ Check-ins4:16
Richard Serra, Artaud ✓ Check-ins4:28
Shan Goshorn, Sealed Fate: Treaty of New Echota Protest Basket ✓ Check-ins5:01
Rashid Johnson, Good Love ✓ Check-ins6:00
Rashid Johnson, Stacked Heads ✓ Check-ins3:55
Jeffrey Gibson, Be Witched Bothered and Be Wildered ✓ Check-ins5:39
Mark Bradford, Thelxiepeia ✓ Check-ins3:58
Joan Snyder, Roxy Red Fugue ✓ Check-ins4:56
Marilyn Spoon, Bandolier Bag ✓ Check-ins5:56
Richard Zane Smith, Wyandotte Feast pot4:30
Zheng Chongbin on "I Look for the Sky"3:29
Mickalene Thomas, Guernica (Resist #3)5:03
Mickalene Thomas on Her Materials and Artistic Influences ✓ Check-ins3:17
An Interview with Artist Ogawa Machiko2:28
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