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A Polaroid of Andy Warhol and preadolescent John F. Kennedy Jr. sitting close together in front of a white clapboard house.

Red Book Prefix F158

An abstract acrylic painting with yellow, white, black and their mixed colors shows the strings of a triangular guitar alongside assorted geometric shapes.

Guitar Gangster

Charline von Heyl

A color photograph of five objects, including other smaller images, a mirror, and a silver necklace, hung in a straight line against a black background.

Medusa

Sara VanDerBeek

A sculpture of a vertically oriented black charcoal rectangle with a wrinkly surface and deep depression at the center.

Charcoal Tablet 6 (Fisting)

A collaged mixed media painting shows a colorful interior scene of a salon with a chaise, bright open windows, and assorted decorations.

Monet’s Salon

Mickalene Thomas

A wall sculpture composed of soft pink nylon, rebar, and lit neon lights and electrical cord.

Depose II

Two parchment- colored pages containing different text in black type hang side by side with silver pushpins and black binder clips.

Wish Lists

Twelve square black-and-white photographs arranged in a three-by-four grid show a Black woman standing in various poses.

May June July August ’57/’09

A sculpture of various ashy black, solid geometric stone and steel shapes stacked and balanced on top of one another.

Catalogue, 39 parts (Value Lessons)

Two black-and-white photographs overlap in a black frame to show a gracefully curved minimalist sculpture by artist Tony Smith.

A.P. (no. 9)

A color photograph of the artist, a light-skinned man, crouching and balancing, nude, on inverted orange cones on his hands and feet, in a field of glitter.

Marker Cones

A grainy black-and-white photograph of a pale nude figure lounging face-down on a couch, their left leg hanging down and resting on the floor.

101 Nudes

A stainless-steel sculpture of four backless, chairs connected together in the shape of an "L" in an empty gallery.

Untitled

Portrait (P. Fries)

A color photograph depicts a single-story storage facility with a row of orange doors at a distance amid an overgrown, weedy field, rendered in soft purples, blues, and grays.

Upstate

An illuminated film slide made up of vertically oriented strips of film showing silhouettes of insects, and letters spelling "END” among translucent pinks, blues, and blacks."

Number 9

A sculpture of a wall aluminum lightbox with the word "APPLAUSE" in white slanted lettering on a red background and a white cord hanging down from the right side, mounted on a white wall.

Applause

A color photograph of a gradient, ambient sky of pastel blues darkening into pastel oranges along the bottom frame.

Untitled (Reaper Drone)

A black-and-white photograph of a man asleep under thick blankets in a home hospital bed, surrounded by an IV and other hospital equipment.

George Gannett, from the series People with AIDS

A bronze sculpture of a man in robes and a turban, looking at his hands, seated on the wooden floor of a gallery.

Portrait of a Turkish Man

A color photograph depicts a scene of two Asian peasants, one played by the artist, posing with weapons in an open, devastated field as a red nuclear mushroom cloud blooms in the horizon.

Brothers (A Late Autumn Prayer)

Yasumasa Morimura

A sculptural installation of two identical pairs of chairs, one yellow and one blue chair. One pair is hung on the wall, one is on the floor.

Use/Used (two chairs I bought in New Bedford while visiting the Bloomberg/Farrell family)

Charles, LeDray Clothesline, 1994

Clothesline

A drawing of ink, gouache, and pastel on paper depicts an abstracted scene of pink flowers blooming against a dark landscape, with various colorful geometric shapes circling them.

A Flower (No. 14)

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