2016.64.2 Face mask: forager bird
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Most Dogon wooden masks have in common a face that is made of three vertical ridges with two hollows between them. The figure carved on top of this mask indicates the spirit the mask personifies.
2013.18 Richard Hughes, Neapolitanz
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Neopolitanz is an impossible union of three concrete walls. The name, a reference to the colors of Neapolitan ice cream, adds a twist of humor and irony to the sculpture.
2013.7.A-D Clemens von Wedemeyer, Muster (Rushes)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The three stories in Muster (Rushes) take place on the grounds of a former monastery in Germany at three periods in its history: as the Breitenau concentration camp during World War II, a troubled reformatory for girls in the 1970s, and later a memorial and psychiatric ho
2012.35.A-F Daniel Buren, Sanction of the Museum
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Daniel Buren began using stripes in the mid-1960s as a way of voiding his work of all representational or expressive references. The stripes, each painted to be exactly 8.7 centimeters wide, were created to mimic the stripes on commercial awnings.
2012.37 Uri Aran, Untitled (I Love You)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In his drawings and videos, Uri Aran often plays with the human feelings that we project onto animals. Untitled (I Love You) captures a mundane scene of the artist rummaging through a shoebox full of aquatic toy animals.
2012.50.A-P Sherrie Levine, Monochromes after Mondrian: 1-16
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The work Monochromes after Mondrian: 1–16 comprises sixteen uniformly sized panels of mahogany, each painted a distinctly unmodulated block of color using Flashe paint.
2016.25.1 Anklet
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This heavy, hollow hinged anklet is decorated with chased and punched (hammered) motifs. In Oman, a powerful Islamic empire from the 17th to the 19th century, pairs of anklets were given to pubescent girls by their fathers and worn until they were married.
2016.3 Kneeling female figure with bowl and figures
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Respectfully kneeling and holding a bowl, this type of female figure represents an olumeye, "one who knows honor." She wears an intricately braided irun agogo hairstyle that was worn by recent brides and priestesses devoted to particular
2015.48.8 Chief's staff
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This staff is an emblem of status for a mwanangana (lord of the land) or mwata munene (paramount chief.) An ancestral chief's head carved in full relief sits atop a panel (his torso) with incised geometric designs that are dif