Contemporary Art

What are artists making today?

Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 1986.

Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So

Appealing?, 1956.

Pop Art

Contemporary Art

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst, For the Love of God, 2007.

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991.

Tiger shark, glass, steel, formalin, 84”x204”, private collection.

Monument (Installation View)

Vue d'installation des Enfants de DijonHeller Gallery, New York.

Monumenta 2010

Les Ombres

Christian BoltanskiMonument, 1986  

Andy Goldsworthy Creating a Sculpture

Goldsworthy, Screens series, Lake district, England, 1988.

Goldworthy, Cairn, 1997.

Goldsworthy, Alderney Stones, 2006

Goldsworthy. Ice Star, 1987.

Andy Goldsworthy, Carefully Broken Pebbles Scratched White with Another Stone, 1985.

Portrait of Louise Bourgeois

Bourgeois, untitled mobile

Bourgeois, Nature Study, 1984.

Bourgeois, untitled

Louise Bourgeois, Maman, 1995.Bronze with marble eggs, 30 x 33’, National Gallery of Art, Ottawa.

• Maman

• The spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. My family was in the business of tapestry restoration, and my mother was in charge of the workshop. Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.

• — Louise Bourgeois

Detail of Maman

Mueck, Couple under an Umbrella, 2013.

Mueck creating Couple under an Umbrella, 2013.

Mueck creating Couple under an Umbrella, 2013.

Mueck, Boy, 1995.

MueckA Girl2006

Ron Mueck, Mask II, 2001-02.

Mueck, Mask II, 2001-02.

Mary Pratt, The Jelly Shelf.

Mary Pratt, Between the Dark and the Daylight, 2011.

Mary Pratt, Between the Dark and the Daylight, detail.

Mary Pratt, Pyrex on Gas Flame, 1975.

Pratt, Eggs in an Egg Crate, 1975.

Pratt, Smears of Jam Lights of Jelly.

Pratt, Smears of Jam Lights of Jelly, detail.

Banksy, Untitled (Powerwashing the Cave Painting).

Banksy, Untitled (Follow Your Dreams).

Banksy, Untitled (Soldier and Child).

Banksy, Untitled (Maid).

Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Pope Innocent X, c. 1650Oil on canvas, 141 cm × 119 cm, Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome

Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953Oil on canvas, 153 cm × 118 cm, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa

Contemporary Art