Kente is the best known and most popular of the Asante textiles. Oral traditions credit a spider’s web-making with having inspired two hunters to create the first kente.

Kente is the best known and most popular of the Asante textiles. Oral traditions credit a spider’s web-making with having inspired two hunters to create the first kente.

Kente is the best known and most popular of the Asante textiles. Oral traditions credit a spider’s web-making with having inspired two hunters to create the first kente. Osei Tutu I, the first king of the Asante, reserved the cloth for royals.

Kuduo are cast brass containers for storing valuables; they were also used in religious, social, and civic rites. Arabic calligraphy and geometric motifs were introduced to Akan peoples via the trans-Saharan and trans-Sudanic gold trade.

Jonas Wood paints images from his daily life through a multilayered approach. One of his methods is to collage photographs into compositions that challenge the viewer's sense of space and scale.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Keith Sonnier radically challenged the traditional concept of sculpture  by incorporating unconventional and industrial materials.

In 1994, Nam June Paik created Music Box Based on Piano Piece Composed in Tokyo in 1954 for The Music Box Project, a commission of seventeen music boxes from different contemporary artists sponsored by the Swiss music box company Reuge.

Portraiture played a key role in the Roman aristocracy's desires to reinforce its ties to the Imperial household, and it was the primary means to communicate class-consciousness. Depictions of Roman aristocratic women closely relate to those of women in the Imperial House, as portraits of empre

Ricci Albenda's video projection, a 360-degree panning loop, creates a trompe l'oeil extension of the gallery where one half of the space appears to shift and warp. The apparent shape, depth, and scale of the gallery are continuously distorted.

As if in a dream, a close-up of a mysterious, almost grinning man radiates within an indeterminate gray field. Depicting psychological subject matter, Luc Tuymans plays on the human fascination with analyzing other humans, especially their faces.