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A photograph of an installation comprising black, life-size silhouettes on a brown ground acting out a series of scenes across three walls of a gallery.

The Nigger Huck Finn Pursues Happiness Beyond the Narrow Constraints of Your Overdetermined Thesis on Freedom–Drawn and Quartered by Mister Kara Walkerberry, with Condolences to the Authors

An installation of ochre- colored string attached in a regular pattern to a piece of grey painted plywood but tangling as they fall to the floor or are attached loosely to the adjacent wall.

Ennead

A sculpture made of steel and rubber in the shape of a cube with an open top to revealing an interior of spiky, organic looking black tubes interior.

Accession IV

A sculptural installation of books, a bronze sculpture, a rock, and other objects displayed on three wooden shelves.

Innerspace Bullshit

A tall, slender sculpture in white wood of an abstracted figure with carved rounded shapes at the top and a navel-like depression near the midpoint.

Untitled

Louise Bourgeois

A sculpture of two cube monitors on flight cases with video stills of a light-skinned woman with blond hair holding a rose.

Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry

A framed black-and-white photograph of bare feet walking on a dirty sidewalk with boots tied to the ankles, propped on a wooden floor and leaned against a white wall.

Performance Still

A diptych of color portrait photographs of a young woman with pale skin and shoulder-length dark hair, one in a black tank top, one in military uniform.

Evgenya, Induction Center Tel Hashomer, Tel Hashomer, Israel, March 6, 2002; Evgenya, North Court Base, Pikud Tzafon, Israel, December 9, 2002

Rineke Dijkstra

An installation of crocheted, off-white yarn covers the walls and ceiling of a small dark room.

Crocheted Environment

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.

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